Re: YASID - Astronauts Return To Depopulated Earth
- From: Aaron Denney <wnoise@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 06:34:19 +0000 (UTC)
On 2006-05-08, Joseph Nebus <nebusj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Barbara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
it sounds like the plot of Time Fuse...by a well known sci fi author
whose name I'm blanking on at the moment...Randall Garrett?
Anyway, a starship takes off with a new, experimental drive. They get
to the star they're journeying to ...and the star goes nova because of
the way they traveled. They head back towards earth using sublight
speed so that they don't destroy the sun by reappearing in the same
way, only to discover that the event also happened on take off...so
they had destroyed their own sun, and of course, now had nowhere to go.
And they didn't catch on they'd destroyed the Sun through all
the interim time?
Boy, the notion of keeping in touch with Mission Control really
took a long time to set in with science fiction writers. I know early
on it was thought radio wouldn't work with airplanes because they had no
ground, but ... wow.
Time lag.
Presumably they had no FTL radio equivalents.
They would, of course, see the destruction of the sun on the way back,
but long after they get underway.
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Aaron Denney
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