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Abandoned, but fully operational, alien base. We send humans there, land successfully, discover we are not alone in the Universe, and Humanity is united behind
by fit2rule 12y ago
Abandoned, but fully operational, alien base. We send humans there, land successfully, discover we are not alone in the Universe, and Humanity is united behind the effort to gain deeper understanding of ourselves. Also, there's a hidden door somewhere in the base that leads deeper into the interior of Ceres, where we discover .. the whole thing was a station.
A man can dream.
- bonafidehan 12y agoThat would be amazing. It would be so exciting to live through that.
- ridgeguy 12y agoIn Alastair Reynold's scifi novel Pushing Ice, it wasn't Ceres, but another body in our solar system that with an apparent origin similar to what you've imagined...and behavior just too interesting for the curious primates to ignore...
- IndianAstronaut 12y agoEon was another good book which investigated this possibility of an alien rock orbiting earth.
- ars 12y agoWhy does that description sound like the beginning seasons of lost?
- TeMPOraL 12y agoAnd then we discover that Charon is in fact a mass relay... Yes, I have such dreams too, sometimes.
- danielbln 12y ago"Assuming direct control."
- bjelkeman-again 12y agoLink it with the recent mysterious high altitude dust clouds on Mars and it could be the prelude to something exciting or downright nasty, if you read as much science fiction as I do. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/02/17/mysterious-clouds-mars/#.VPW2O4GkqK0 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/02/17/mysteri...
- CatsoCatsoCatso 12y agoIt's a massive radio telescope reflecting the sun. See how the Effelsberg 100m RT looks from a satellite: https://www.google.com/maps/place/50%C2%B031'29.0%22N+6%C2%B052'58.0%22E/@50.5246402,6.883749,499m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/place/50%C2%B031'29.0%22N+6%C2%B...