Orbiting the giant star, Lissa and Hebo find a planet:
Mars-sized;
eccentrically orbiting;
one AU out;
airless;
waterless;
bare rock;
red hot on the day side;
emitting induced radioactivity;
unapproachable;
with centers of -
electronics;
nucleonics;
hydronics.
Thus, on this planet, there is:
technological manipulation of electrons, atomic nuclei and radioactivity;
artificial cooling.
The explorers also detect, on a second planet 100 AUs out, different technological activity that might provide for:
"'Long-base interferometry'" (p. 250);
observations or experiments in lower temperatures.
It will be possible to land on the second planet.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I had been wondering which of Anderson's works to reread after finishing THE HIGH CRUSADE/"Quest." Your comments about FOR LOVE AND GLORY made me decide to reread that final novel of PA.
And what good would it do the "Forerunners" to set up means of collecting information about this black hole collision if they were not going to BE there? Or did the Forerunners actually think they or their successors would still exist millions of years later? Now THAT is really taking the long view!
Sean
Sean
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