Post AsaYAjNJHSUsUrH2EC by ehproque@neopaquita.es
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(DIR) Post #AsaPRtqIiTYkISwi0W by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-30T16:50:55Z
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What would the "but in space" equivalent be of being a "storm chaser" eg. someone who tries to get close to tornados to feel their power and get photos?
(DIR) Post #AsaPWB02rtoQfQXjUG by frankpodmore@social.coop
2025-03-30T16:51:38Z
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@futurebird Solar flares?
(DIR) Post #AsaPYTCi9kJlhpYqwa by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-03-30T16:52:05Z
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@futurebird I have colleagues who are professional meteor chasers.
(DIR) Post #AsaPjs5jxtpS4wjljc by mmezabet@craftgoblin.club
2025-03-30T16:54:03Z
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@futurebird Ooo, I think it would be someone who tries to get as close to the event horizon of a black hole as possible, or possibly someone who would hang around a star before it went supernova (assuming they have had FTL travel!)
(DIR) Post #AsaPp2Q0zsBXYUgTlQ by mmezabet@craftgoblin.club
2025-03-30T16:54:33Z
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@futurebird oh, sorry, I didn't realize that we were NOT doing speculative fiction 😅
(DIR) Post #AsaPp3Tx2ivaqzX8XQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-30T16:55:01Z
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@mmezabet No I'm thinking for fiction. I like the black hole idea.
(DIR) Post #AsaPuA6rpRoorCAg4G by YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world
2025-03-30T16:55:59Z
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@futurebird Maybe the probes and satellites that monitor and explore space weather from the Sun, but they don't have people going "oh my God" in the front seats of a speeding car.
(DIR) Post #AsaQ8X37KxEg3aGlQO by juliette@mastodon.green
2025-03-30T16:58:35Z
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@futurebird supernovas? “close” being a relative term in this case
(DIR) Post #AsaQiG8LhqXE1EkibA by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-03-30T17:05:00Z
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@futurebird @mmezabet Schwarzchild radius chicken Also, theme song: 🎶"Don't Go [relativistically] Fast 'Round Deadman's Curve"
(DIR) Post #AsaQwfMOi9NSJPC2yW by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-03-30T17:07:41Z
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@futurebird uh, would you need to be a being that can feel gamma rays, speeding electrons, zooming protons, and alpha particles the way humans feel wind? A living Geiger counter?
(DIR) Post #AsaSIvVvQt0YjjpQ6C by artemesia@sfba.social
2025-03-30T17:22:53Z
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@futurebird There was a sci-fi novel about folks whose recreation was to skim the corona of the sun for the comtagious high it gave them, Sundipper. In todays real world I think comet chasing might be doable--lots of action on the surface of the comet as volatiles boil off.
(DIR) Post #AsaUJr9lJpojQ725y4 by NNN@urbanists.social
2025-03-30T17:45:27Z
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@futurebird There was that whole movie "the black hole"
(DIR) Post #AsaVI7fr2HM01WmTg0 by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-03-30T17:55:32Z
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@OrionKidder @futurebird For a comet chaser in space; I can recommend Comet Interceptor: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Comet_Interceptor
(DIR) Post #AsaY2XyHnMEIoQfOKm by alper@sfba.social
2025-03-30T18:27:07Z
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@futurebird @mmezabet watching so many event horizon related sci Fi, I always wondered if the event horizon of a black hole is stable. Does it "flare" directionally? Wobble?
(DIR) Post #AsaYAjNJHSUsUrH2EC by ehproque@neopaquita.es
2025-03-30T18:28:37Z
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@futurebird someone who gets regularly spaghettified
(DIR) Post #AsachpJKdEjAHNRwdk by prex@urusai.social
2025-03-30T19:19:26Z
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@futurebird first thing that comes to mind is comet chaser (probably it doesn't fit but sounds very cool to me)
(DIR) Post #AsahUenQueXvfw4L2G by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-03-30T20:13:03Z
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@futurebird @mmezabet Related but not quite what you're asking about is "Schools of Clay" by Derek Küntzken.It's a story about ceramic kite shaped interstellar creatures that evolved to skim the event horizon of a black hole when escaping from predators to use time dilation to jump way into the future past when the predators would be interested in them.
(DIR) Post #AsaxFlnQChhuJ8zFGi by Jorsh@beige.party
2025-03-30T23:09:38Z
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@futurebird Extreme Black hole spectral analysts!
(DIR) Post #AsbfHDIPqE27rzyzOi by rayhindle@mastodon.social
2025-03-31T07:22:54Z
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@futurebird Ionic Storm Chaser?