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15 May 2024 13:32:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: "Metal Monster" WIP  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 11 May 2016 12:00:00
Message: <web.5733569982700af4be112930@news.povray.org>
"Norbert Kern" <nor### [at] t-onlinede> 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.

Someone else mentioned Baxter - his novel 'Flux' deals with a similar scenario.
Mind-bending stuff.

oh, and beautiful images, btw!

Bill


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