Nyrath
May 5th, '09, 07:37 AM
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/03/mercury-hides-a-monster-impact/
"How the heck do you hide a terrifyingly huge impact basin easily big enough to stretch from San Francisco to Los Angeles?"
"Easy. Put it on Mercury."
What caused this impact crater?
An ancient alien battlecruiser colliding with Mercury? (and is it still there, buried under the surface, just waiting for some adventurers to stumble on the entrance?)
How about the asteroid-cell of some imprisoned Cthulhu-like eldar space god? (and is it still there, buried under the surface, just waiting for some foolhardy adventurers to fail to decipher the "DO NOT OPEN!" alien inscription on the door?)
What if it was just an asteroid colliding with Mercury, which is the only known way of creating large deposits of priceless Unobtanium ore?
"How the heck do you hide a terrifyingly huge impact basin easily big enough to stretch from San Francisco to Los Angeles?"
"Easy. Put it on Mercury."
What caused this impact crater?
An ancient alien battlecruiser colliding with Mercury? (and is it still there, buried under the surface, just waiting for some adventurers to stumble on the entrance?)
How about the asteroid-cell of some imprisoned Cthulhu-like eldar space god? (and is it still there, buried under the surface, just waiting for some foolhardy adventurers to fail to decipher the "DO NOT OPEN!" alien inscription on the door?)
What if it was just an asteroid colliding with Mercury, which is the only known way of creating large deposits of priceless Unobtanium ore?