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Old February 7th 10, 12:04 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:36:14 -0800, Pat Flannery
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Hubble may have gotten photos of the aftereffects a head-on collision
between two asteroids:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...steroid-crash/


Sort of reminds me a B5 shadow vessel disintegrating.
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Old February 7th 10, 02:49 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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me wrote:
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:36:14 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Hubble may have gotten photos of the aftereffects a head-on collision
between two asteroids:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...steroid-crash/


Sort of reminds me a B5 shadow vessel disintegrating.


The one that fell into the atmosphere of Jupiter or the one that got
clobbered from all sides by the Army Of Light?
The technology of the Shadow ships was interesting if you observed how
they worked in combat.
They were obviously made of a superconducting material that could take
huge amounts of energy in at any one point and use the entire surface
area of the ship to re-radiate it into space; so unless you could hit
most of its surface with energy at a high enough rate that it couldn't
re-radiate it as fast as it was coming in, the ship wouldn't overheat
and fail.
That was noticeable every time when they got hit with an energy weapon,
and the whole Shadow ship started glowing red over its entire surface.
The idea owed a lot to how the Langston Field worked in the book "The
Mote In God's Eye".
I always got a kick out of how the entry point to a hyperspace and its
exit point varied in color in B5 due to the redshift effect.
Someone was actually putting some thought into all this, God bless them.

Pat
 




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