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Anyone remember that science fiction story, where the first ship to leave the solar system shatters some shell. And that it's later discovered that all stars ha
by richeyrw 14y ago
Anyone remember that science fiction story, where the first ship to leave the solar system shatters some shell. And that it's later discovered that all stars have the same shell, which is impermeable from the outside. Sort of an enforced prime directive by unknown powers? This reminded me of that, and despite many searches I'm not getting any hits.
- gojomo 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Spheres http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Spheres
- richeyrw 14y agoThanks!
- jlgreco 14y agoReminds me of the "celestial spheres" model of the universe where heavenly bodies (orbiting the earth of course) were "held up" because they were embedded into a sort of matryoshka series of crystal spheres made of a supposed 5th element, a solid æther. Of course this model did little to explain retrograde motion.. ;)