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28 Apr 2024 19:49:06 EDT (-0400)
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From: Jörg "Yadgar" Bleimann
Date: 1 Jul 2016 12:04:26
Message: <5776948a$1@news.povray.org>
Hi(gh)!

On 11.05.2016 15:07, Norbert Kern wrote:

> Frightening - a civilisation born near the surface of a neutron star...
>
> If such species would come to earth, I can imagine every chemistry possible and
> some new ones too. Materials with every color, even a metallic "gas" with
> densities much higher than 40 g/ml or higher.
>
> Perhaps this is the "solution" - individuals as mini neutron stars, interacting
> with each other and building structures via electron transfer.
>
> This gives me new ideas - thank you!

You perhaps might like to take a look at Robert L. Forward's "Dragon's 
Egg"/"Starquake" (also available in German: "Das 
Drachenei"/"Sternbeben") - which deals with this very scenario: a 
civilization of slug-like flat creatures living on the surface of a 
neutron star!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar


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