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« Reply #15 on: April 22, 2003, 05:47:42 am »
Well, what with degenerate matter often being found on semi-habitable worlds, I figured the stuff was merely the rotting remnants of exotic alien species that could be used to re-seed a planet with life.

But then again I am no physicist.
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« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2003, 08:08:06 am »
I thought that too. Of course, why rotting remnants would be exotics confused me. Then in astro-phys 211, I found out...
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« Reply #17 on: April 22, 2003, 09:41:12 am »
So enlighten me, Enlightened one!
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« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2003, 05:36:24 pm »
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Nodules are tasty egg-roll like things that are the equivalent of hamburgers.

-From the EldritchEvil database of Made Up Things (EEDMUT)  (Pronounced "Eed-mut")


Maybe you should rename your database after all - spoken fast, something like "Eat Mud" appears.
Bon appétit!
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« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2003, 05:43:56 pm »
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Well, Charon is the moon of Pluto...


...named after the ferryman of the dead across the river Acheron thus entering the afterlife. If you can't pay for the trip or don't have a reservation by being buried or burned in the correct way, you'll be wandering the shores of the river Styx for a hundred years.

Charon is an old man, maybe he's already falling apart (or the dust is out of his ferry? After all, all those dead, buried and burned people are gonna leave a whole mess in his boat! Once a week he cleans it and sells the Charon Dust off?)
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« Reply #20 on: April 23, 2003, 04:37:47 am »
Or maybe it's the charred remains of lifeforms that used to inhabit the planet before something occurred to incinerate the planet's surface.
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« Reply #21 on: April 23, 2003, 04:47:45 am »
But then Charon Dust would be composed almost entirely of materials extremely common to the world it's found on...I theorize that it's helpful in building hyperspace drives. Not necessary, mind you, but it makes it so much easier.
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« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2003, 05:58:19 am »
Hey, you know. All we can do is theorize. They're fictional minerals we're talking about here, after all. It's just fun to make up playful stories, as outlandish as they may be.

Be afraid, sometimes my mind concocts odd little explanations. Like, these exotics are the eggshells for a space dragon!

...or as GN would put it, they're giant M&Ms filled with bountiful chocolate goodness!
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« Reply #23 on: April 23, 2003, 12:43:34 pm »
Yummy!

The sound the lander makes when taking those in supports that feeling, too!
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« Reply #24 on: April 24, 2003, 12:22:15 am »
True, true... it makes a slurping sound similar to that of slurping up M&Ms..
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« Reply #25 on: April 24, 2003, 04:34:49 am »
Mmmh, Mmmmmmmmmhn - Slurp, slurp! I like chocolate!
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« Reply #26 on: April 25, 2003, 02:46:41 am »
I think it's obvious that the 'slurpy' noise the lander makes when it picks up stuff is just the giant straw sticking out the bottom end.  They get all the crewmembers in the landing pod to put their mouths around a huge precursor straw and then suck those darn things inside the cargo bay.

I thought everyone knew that.   Tongue
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« Reply #27 on: April 25, 2003, 03:22:33 am »
*shudders at things like hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid*

They must have loads of fun with Helium though...
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« Reply #28 on: April 25, 2003, 03:26:32 am »
Yuo've got it all wrong Wink Have a look at

http://uqm.stack.nl/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Gendiscuss;action=display;num=1046242496;start=10#10

It's explained very simply over there Smiley

As for straws, that's only used when they are collecting alcohol.
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« Reply #29 on: April 25, 2003, 03:39:33 am »
You know, each resource is considered a kiloton... Which if my pathetic sense of memory serves me correctly, is a thousand tons... which is 1000 x 2000 pounds... which is bacially 2 million pounds.

Even if you found ONE resource point worth of alcohol exotics somewhere in the galaxy, I think you'd earn the eternal gratitude of the entire starbase...
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