Space Horse

by TheMajorTechie

Log 4106: Cliche meteor(s) is cliche

And of course the first thing we get after reconnecting with ground base is a meteor shower warning. Hold on, I'ma go out and fling those rocks. They're weightless to me up here, anyways, though it's their momentum that I'll have trouble with.

Delmar's doing the best to use whatever little maneuverability this thing has to dodge at least a few of the oncoming meteoroids, but like I said before, I think I'll have to handle quite a few of them myself.

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Got my spacesuit on, and I'm ready to do some ping-pong with giant space rocks!

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Of which, there don't appear to be any giant space rocks.

It's just... dust.

Like, lots of dust.

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Actually, more like fine grains of sand and a few pebbles.

They call these meteors?!

I'm just gonna go back inside.

Comments

[Da Fennec]

Poor Gadget she needs an education at several thousand miles per hour even dust can be dangerous

[TheMajorTechie]

8087860 Yup. That's just me leading up to the next chapter.sollace.github.io/emoticons/fimfic/nerdgasm-d72140i.png

[Da Fennec]

8087864 IF she's lucky the dust is mostly ICE or dirt if she's unlucky its something denser

[TheMajorTechie]

8087945 Who said it wasn't possibly projectile debris from collided satellites?

[Da Fennec]

8088010 Well that would be the very unlucky denser possibility since at the lightest its aluminum the densest a titanium alloy

[TheMajorTechie]

8088047 But what if it happened to be flecks of uranium from the nuclear reactors used by certain satellites?

[Da Fennec]

8088052 Radiation poisoning for added fun though how bad depends on the age of the flakes. If there is one from a sat odds are more flakes will be of the same material

[TheMajorTechie]

8088074

[Boulder]

8088010
8088047 This playing card was embedded in this tree from a tornado outside Henryville high school 2012. Those winds were flinging it at only about 150 mph. guess what debris and rock particles will do at the thousands of miles an hour they're travelling at? Saw in a Youtube video recently of the Joplin tornado where the journos showed us a piece of corrugated cardboard stuck in a fibreboard wall.
brookegrace.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/120308_henryville29_bs.jpg

[Da Fennec]

8088281 in theory your right fun part is while the particles are traveling at thousands of miles per hour so is Gadget. Also most stations and installations are designed to deal with dust since its a common and ongoing issue its time and the denser materials that get to be an issue

[TheMajorTechie]

8088305

In Chinese culture, 4 rhymes with doom/death.

[Boulder]

8088305 Yes but in the same direction or travelling at nearly dead on towards each other. Even 90° hits would be catastrophic. The solar panels are occasionally replaced on the ISS from micrometeorite hits. Because there are so many on it, 1 or 2 now and again has minimal effect. At least the modern panels are a hell of a lot tougher than the old Skylab panels, they were constantly needing replacements.
Here's a bit on the ISS wall construction designed to handle up to 1 cm diameter bits that can't be tracked.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/wstf/laboratories/hypervelocity/mmod.html

[Da Fennec]

8088337 Sure while the stations are designed to survive strikes of larger materials suits are designed to deal with dust since its an ongoing issue but you are right direction is a potential issue since it can double the speed of impact if teh station is headed right into the material stream

[TheMajorTechie]

8088364
8088337 You two have pretty much completely figured out where the current story arc is building up to. orig04.deviantart.net/3db3/f/2012/363/1/e/clapping_pony_icon___twilight_sparkle_by_taritoons-d5pkpl8.gif

[Boulder]

8088373 sorry...
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[TheMajorTechie]

8088387 It's fine. You haven't spoiled THAT much yet.