Starship Asterisk*

I don't understand why they wash the starfield out of these pictures. It gives it a very fake and pixelated look around the edges, like someone just put the picture in paint and clicked the background with the fill bucket a few times.

There seems to be a dark spot to the right of the star that reminds me of pictures of molecular clouds I've seen on APOD (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090623.html). I wonder if that might have something to do with it?

I believe that this phenomenon was truely visible to the unaided eye. If you look at the secondary suns you can see that there are clouds passing in front of them in a non-repetative pattern. I don't think that would happen if it were merely a camera effect. I'm also willing to bet that if you were ...

The lights seem to fan out at the cloud line. Perhaps that they're reaching a more densely moist area is the reason they're fanning.

they should just rev up the little guys engines and launch him into the crater, like some sort of badass mechanical evl knevil. Possibly an upgrade would be in order then, some rocket engines and a parachute maybe? Then set it up on Pay Per View to fund the next shuttle launch, cuz that would be the...

the point made in the summary reminds me of "Rendezvous with Rama". It takes place in the 22nd century and human astronomers mistake an abandoned alien craft for an asteroid. The question is, how many previously precieved concepts may be rendered moot by technology, and how will that affec...