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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 06:04:59 JST myrmepropagandist

   • mcc

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   Have we ever detected a planet with this issue? Don't planets tend to develop rings ...not a debris field?

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 06:04:55 JST mcc

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     @futurebird I have been toying with this theory that the only good Neal Stephenson novel is Anathem, and that even that one is only good as long as you stop reading and close the book when you reach the sentence

     "I am done here."

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 06:04:56 JST mcc

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     @futurebird I… struggled with it. Before I started I was like "I promised myself I wasn't gonna read any more Neal Stephenson" but I read it anyway and by the time I was done I wasn't sure if I regretted it. It contains both some of my favorite single bits of any Stephenson story, and also some of the least plausible (in terms of people behaving in ways I do not believe a person would behave) bits of any of them. (Oddly, the parts I liked were also human-nature-related, rather than science.)

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 06:04:57 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • mcc

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     Ugh... I remember that one. I didn't enjoy it much, though the first few chapters were good. Then it went... sideways and worse.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 06:04:58 JST mcc

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     @futurebird 1. I don't know if a non-populated planet could encounter the problem we are at risk of because I assume (?? ??? ??) that relatively lightweight, relatively pure metal structures will behave differently from rocks.

     2. I strongly suspect (?) some of the rings in the solar system would be detrimental to satellites. Wikipedia says planetary rings in the solar system are made of "dust" but the particles of that "dust" range in sizes up to the size of a terrestrial house.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 06:04:58 JST mcc

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     @futurebird

     "Seveneves"