<![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> Pshaw. You people have no understanding of Oortian living arrangements. This artificial cluster of comets and rocks makes it easier to live on one and put your industrial nanofactory on the other, which means you don't have to get those expensive "off-switch" nanos, just a big enough raygun mounted on your home rock.

The bright light is from the fusion bulb installed to illuminate one's park dome.

And the Hubble Deep Field background? Well, that's just what happens when you let your kids play with nanoprinting technology. They always think it's funny to set the page width to "10,000,000 cm".

antipaganda

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> @IrisMR:

Concur, though it's possible the various rocks in the picture are a mutually-orbiting 'clump'. I'd beleive it more if there were only two or three, like the asteroid recently found to have two teeny asteroid 'moons'[www.spaceref.com] .

The other problem is, it isn't nearly dark enough.
-Kle.

Klebert L. Hall

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> If you want to suffer from some true, space-based vertigo - download the free, open-source Celestia and explore the solar system (and a bunch of stars catalogued by Hipparcos etc.).

I don't know if Celestia has much in the way of cometary-type stuff from the Kuiper Belt and beyond in its catalogues, but even just pootling around the inner solar system gives an incredible sense of scale. Set yer speed to 1c and discover just how ridiculously huge space is...

CargoCult

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> Wow, that last picture really does bring the scale home.

Pouncer

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> @EBone: Well, just like Earth in a way that only scientists could possible care about.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> Just like Earth. Except frozen.

So I guess it's not just like Earth.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> I love the title "Space Porn", hahahaha. Hell yeah.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> @IrisMR: i thought asteroid fields were very densly packed plot devices

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> Isn't the Oort cloud full of Gods?

(Their first and last commandment: KEEP THE FUCKING NOISE DOWN.)

CargoCult

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> Nice paintings, but IRISMR is correct. Nothing to see here. Although I half expect to see a potato and a unpossible giant space slug chasing a hunk of junk that can do the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs.

ManchuCandidate

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> all these worlds are yours except europa. attempt no landings there
all these worlds are yours except europa. attempt no landings there
all these worlds are yours except europa. attempt no landings there
all these worlds are yours except europa. attempt no landings there

shudderstep

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> It's like the people that believe that if they hang out in the asteroid belt they would see a ton of asteroids around them.

It doesn't work that way. There's a LOT of space between the asteroids. It's the same with the Oort cloud. it is very unlikely you'd have 4 asteroids like that in your back yard. And much less a couple VERY DISTANT galaxies. Talk about copy cheap pasting right there.

Purdy pictures but I'm unimpressed.

IrisMR

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> @braak: Well, given the value of the dollar vs. the Euro, I sure wouldn't recommend it right now.

This post makes me sad; it just reminded me how totally far away the Oort Cloud is. I mean, I like a long road trip as much as the next guy but....

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Dawn in the Oort Cloud]]> I thought we weren't supposed to go to Europa?

braak

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