From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de
a425couple wrote or quoted:
>Could someone please search for my post about "starglider" ?
>Please search this group, or perhaps alt.astronomy
Here are some posts from this here group I found with URIs veiled
by me:
| |"a425couple" wrote in message ...
| |> In the last year or so I've read a number of
| |> Arthur Clarke books.
| |> iuuqt;00fo/xjljqfejb/psh0xjlj0Uif`Gpvoubjot`pg`Qbsbejtf
| |> This one was written in 1979.
| |> For my tastes, I'd just give this a middle rating.
| |> I did not like the first part that dealt with thousand
| |> year old reigns & battles (much of the first 36 / 46 pages)
| |> I also did not care for the last 5 pages of a different life
| |> form, thousands of years in the future.
| |> But the part dealing with engineer Vannevar Morgan
| |> building the space elevator was quite fine.
| |
| |One unrelated 'side story' that I found very interesting,
| |and quite informative about Arthur Clarke's true opinions,
|#|was a couple short chapters dealing with "starglider".
| |"Starglider" is a space vehicle made and launched
| |20,000 years ago by a very advanced extraterestial species.
| |They keep up communication with it (due to distance this is
| |many year delayed) and it is intended to be an explorer,
| |reporter and ambasador for them. Basicly "Starglider"
| |can not understand why any species believes in 'God'.
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a425couple on 2016-02-29 18:31:00+00:00 in rec.arts.sf.written,
Subject: Clarke's "The Fountains of Paradise"
|#|Not quite Rama, or starglider, but????
| |
| |Visitor from Far, Far Away: Interstellar Object Spotted in Our Solar System
| |By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | October 26, 2017 04:52pm ET
| |27 4 MORE
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| |Best Close Encounters of the Comet Kind
| |
| |iuuqt;00xxx/tqbdf/dpn049691.joufstufmmbs.pckfdu.tqpuufe.dpnfu
btufspje.nztufsz/iunm
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a425couple on 2017-10-27 00:10:25+00:00 in rec.arts.sf.written,
Subject: Not quite Rama, or starglider, but????
| |On 10/26/2017 4:10 PM, a425couple wrote:
| |> Not quite Rama, or starglider, but????
| |>
| |> Visitor from Far, Far Away: Interstellar Object Spotted in Our Solar
System
| |> By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | October 26, 2017 04:52pm ET
| |> Visitor from Far, Far Away: Interstellar Object Spotted in Our Solar
System
| |> Diagram showing the path of A/2017 U1 — an object likely of interstellar
| |> origin — through the inner solar system. A/2017 U1 made its closest
| |> approach to the sun on Sept. 9 and is now zooming away 97,200 mph
| |> (156,400 km/h) relative to the sun.
| |> Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
| |> A visitor from interstellar space has likely been spotted in our solar
| |> system for the first time ever.
| |>
| |> iuuqt;00xxx/tqbdf/dpn049691.joufstufmmbs.pckfdu.tqpuufe.dpn
u.btufspje.nztufsz/iunm
| |
| |In case some reader is curious about my title,
| |written sci-fi references, they are from:
| |
| |iuuqt;00fo/xjljqfejb/psh0xjlj0Sfoef{wpvt`xjui`Sbnb
| |"The "Rama" of the title is an alien starship, initially mistaken
| |for an asteroid categorised as "31/439". It is detected by
| |astronomers in the year 2131 while it is still outside the orbit
| |of Jupiter. Its speed (100,000 km/h) and the angle of its
| |trajectory clearly indicate it is not on a long orbit around
| |the sun, but comes from interstellar space."
| |
| |iuuqt;00fo/xjljqfejb/psh0xjlj0Uif`Gpvoubjot`pg`Qbsbejtf
| |"In the middle of The Fountains of Paradise, an unmanned
|#|robotic spaceship of alien origin, called "Starglider/Starholme"
| |by Clarke, passes through our solar system. This situation is similar
| |to Rendezvous with Rama, though the ship exterior and its
| |interactions with humans is very different."
| |
| |Perhaps it is 'broadcasting', but we just are not properly listening?!!
| |
| |Unlike in the two books, we sure do not have anything
| |that could approach A/2017 U1 for a close up view.
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a425couple on 2017-10-27 00:30:51+00:00 in rec.arts.sf.written,
Subject: Not quite Rama, or starglider, but????
| |On 11/1/2017 10:14 PM, Quadibloc wrote:
| |> On Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 4:44:14 PM UTC-6, Brian (Default User)
wrote:
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| |> John Savard
| |>
| |What is wrong with just hoping and planning to do it
|#|with a "starglider" type computer controlled ship
| |that maintains contact with us?
| |Let it be our scout, publicist & ambassador.
| |("Fountains of Paradise" by Arthur Clarke)
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a425couple on 2017-11-04 00:49:33+00:00 in rec.arts.sf.written,
Subject: OT - true: Where Are All the Intelligent Aliens?
| |On 11/3/2017 9:59 PM, Quadibloc wrote:
| |> On Friday, November 3, 2017 at 5:50:28 PM UTC-6, a425couple wrote:
| |>
| |>> What is wrong with just hoping and planning to do it
| |>> with a "starglider" type computer controlled ship
| |>> that maintains contact with us?
| |>> Let it be our scout, publicist & ambassador.
| |>
| |> I've excluded that as a possibility because it is based on one unproven
assumption:
| |> that intelligent life is common out there.
| |
| |I really disagree with that opinion.
| |
|#|The "starglider" plan is a reasonable step towards finding out
| |if there is, or is not, intelligent life out there.
| |(Skip down to the end of your posting)
| |
| |> If we lived in a Star Trek-style universe, where just about all the
inhabitable
| |> planets are taken, that would be a very reasonable possibility.
| |> However, if we live in a largely empty universe, where we could reasonably
| |> expect to have at least a few thousand of the nearest star systems all to
| |> ourselves - which is actually *compatible* with habitable planets being
likely
| |> to have intelligent life, as most star systems won't necessarily have a
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