Grimy@lemmy.world to Two Sentence HorrorEnglish · 2 days agoClose to a million cultists climbed aboard the hollowed out asteroid where they would live and breed for the 120 year long journey.message-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up116arrow-down1message-squareClose to a million cultists climbed aboard the hollowed out asteroid where they would live and breed for the 120 year long journey.Grimy@lemmy.world to Two Sentence HorrorEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-text
The panspermia vessel was to break up low in the atmosphere as to maximise soul and bacterial propagation.
minus-squarePanamaltlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·24 hours agoBreaking up in the atmosphere (any atmosphere) typically involves a large amount of heat, those cultists might be a little disappointed in their dead bacteria
minus-squareGrimy@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 hours agoI’m definitely stretching it a bit here. It would also slam into the planet at the speed it should be going.
minus-squarePanamaltlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agoactually, maybe that’s more terrifying if everyone just let’s this voyage happen thinking it’s just a bunch idiots about to kill themselves. . . . and then something survives anyway
Breaking up in the atmosphere (any atmosphere) typically involves a large amount of heat, those cultists might be a little disappointed in their dead bacteria
I’m definitely stretching it a bit here. It would also slam into the planet at the speed it should be going.
actually, maybe that’s more terrifying if everyone just let’s this voyage happen thinking it’s just a bunch idiots about to kill themselves.
. . . and then something survives anyway