/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2680964

FUCK YEAH

NEW YEAR

2011, SO FUTURISTIC

ONLY 29 YEARS LEFT UNTIL A MAN WORKS OUT A MOLECULAR ASSEMBLER

+/- 30 YEARS LOL

>>2187051

>pedigree

Alternate Aerospace version:

>>2043182

But Abatap is in Russia. I'd prefer to go to the US to study Aerospace. I can't go to Russia. Abatap is there. I can't go to Russia.

Abatap is there.

Such were the Robert-Forward planets, circling Alpha Centauri Alpha with an uneasy stealth.
They were microjovian worlds, orbiting each other around a common barycenter, so close that the two had been bent out of shape, egg-shaped worlds tip to tip, so close that they exchanged gases, so close that upward-downward waterfalls of Helium rose in columns from one world and rained down on the pole of the other, entire oceans of methane shared between the two. Two worlds, a single atmosphere, storms forming in one and sliding into the other.
Such were the Robert-Forward planets, Robert and Forward, two blue microjovians, circling their sun undetected. They were too far away, too small, too lightweight: Therefore they reflected little to no light and imparted little pull on the star, but at the same time they were close enough not to get pulled out of orbit by Alpha Centauri B.
And he reached them, the Robert-Forward worlds, and studied them. There was nothing for man around them: Naturally-occurring fullerenes, water ice, methane ice, caves and the most alien and breathtaking landscapes, out there among the stars.
And he finally left them, after three years, the dust-sprinkled gravity well of two worlds scarcely larger than Earth itself was soon gone, as the ISV Carl Sagan arced away from them, until the merged into a single spot and eventually disappeared, leaving behind nothing. After reaching 97% of lightspeed, the Carl Sagan fluttered back to Sunspace.
The world watched the spacecraft coming back, trailing a continent-sized bowshock behind itself.
Laura waited for her man to come back from the space among the stars.

>>1926817

>implying private spaceflight agencies have not proven to be better, faster, more focused, cheaper and overall more efficient than NASA

you mad?

>>1922181


u mad?