They found the Gateway to the Past on Mars!
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Finds an Other Worldly Treat on Mars[^] It doesn't look very functional though. :( Star Trek Original Series reference of the episode by that title, for those not in the know. ;)
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A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity Framework"The donut rock may be a meteorite that landed on Mars" .. "Landed"? I thought stuff from space generally crashed into planets pretty spectacularly. This one though obviously did "land" as there's zero sign of a crater (any minor debris could have blown away in Mars' thin atmosphere, but there'd be at least a bit of a dent, wouldn't there??). No, given its angular external shape I reckon this is a nut that's fallen off a MASSIVE Mars explorer from some other civilisation. Of course we don't know the scale; maybe this is not a view down a telescope but down a microscope, and it's really really tiny.
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"The donut rock may be a meteorite that landed on Mars" .. "Landed"? I thought stuff from space generally crashed into planets pretty spectacularly. This one though obviously did "land" as there's zero sign of a crater (any minor debris could have blown away in Mars' thin atmosphere, but there'd be at least a bit of a dent, wouldn't there??). No, given its angular external shape I reckon this is a nut that's fallen off a MASSIVE Mars explorer from some other civilisation. Of course we don't know the scale; maybe this is not a view down a telescope but down a microscope, and it's really really tiny.
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You're thinking of "landed" as in how an aircraft lands. But they are using the word in a more technical sense. When you think about it, "landed" simply means it ended up on the surface.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You're thinking of "landed" as in how an aircraft lands. But they are using the word in a more technical sense. When you think about it, "landed" simply means it ended up on the surface.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I think that you mean [The City on the Edge of Forever](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_City\_on\_the\_Edge\_of\_Forever). The device was called the Guardian of Forever, and IIRC the planet was quarantined after the discovery. EDIT: I see that OG got the reference before me...
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Yeah, I really messed up that Star Trek reference. My Trekkie points have taken a hit. :laugh:
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You're thinking of "landed" as in how an aircraft lands. But they are using the word in a more technical sense. When you think about it, "landed" simply means it ended up on the surface.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Exactly... that's my point (badly made, obviously!) This looks more like it's been carefully placed down, not crashed at thousands of mph.
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Exactly... that's my point (badly made, obviously!) This looks more like it's been carefully placed down, not crashed at thousands of mph.
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How can you tell how hard the rock landed? All we see is rock sitting on the surface. What's your indication of how hard the impact was? Maybe this rock was a thousand times bigger, and this is just a fragment.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I think that you mean [The City on the Edge of Forever](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_City\_on\_the\_Edge\_of\_Forever). The device was called the Guardian of Forever, and IIRC the planet was quarantined after the discovery. EDIT: I see that OG got the reference before me...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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A gateway to the past is dangerous enough. But what if its a gateway to Hell? In which case we're all DOOMed!
Keep Calm and Carry On
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If it is a one-way function "gateway to", can we start sending the team to make it all better? The Googalfinchians, hotel/casino developers, tic-tok influencers, MBA, project managers, etc.
Don't forget the telephone sanitizers.... 😉
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Don't forget the telephone sanitizers.... 😉
