• elzbardico 7 days ago

    I miss the times when I grew up, where such kind of news would inevitably lead to speculations and very detailed artistic impressions of what a human colony in Mercury's terminator zone would look like.

  • bookofjoe 7 days ago
    • runako a day ago

      Absolution Gap[1] has a plot device similar to this. If you like hard sci-fi, Reynolds belongs in your queue.

      1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolution_Gap

      • bell-cot a day ago

        Cool - but "A Mercury Rover Could ..." presupposes a soft landing on Mercury.

        Try asking an aerospace engineer about the delta-v requirements for that. Mercury has no atmosphere - so you can't aerobrake, as we do on Mars.

        • darkerside a day ago

          How many dumb ideas that we had as kids turn out to be good

          • aaron695 a day ago

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