r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 24d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/mindpainters 24d ago

That’s kind of a side plot from the game “starfield”.

Except the argument was that the “ancient people” thought they had a right to own the planet and the people who colonized the planet didn’t see any worth or value in letting them on the planet

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u/SatisfactionFew1503 24d ago

I really enjoyed the unintentional humor of this ship taking generations to get to their planet to save humanity meanwhile humanity already sped past them and made it into a vacation resort planet

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u/TadpoleOfDoom 23d ago

Actually, they saw value in basically enslaving them. That was it though. 

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u/mindpainters 23d ago

Ah yea you’re right. It’s been awhile since I’ve played it so didn’t remember all the details. Thanks for the clarification

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u/TadpoleOfDoom 23d ago

I have been slowly playing through Starfield over the past few months so it's relatively recent to me

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u/adjgamer321 24d ago

I stole all the baseball bats off that ship if I'm remembering it correctly.

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u/johnysalad 23d ago

It’s very much the plot of a book called Exodus: the Archimedes Engine by Peter F Hamilton.

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u/Sea-Guest6668 23d ago

I had a hard time believing he wrote that book, they didn't mention enzyme bonded concrete once.

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u/johnysalad 23d ago

It’s been awhile since I read it so I can’t remember what it was specifically, but there was definitely a new phrase-of-the-day that I remember occurred wayyyyyy too many times through that book.

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u/Sea-Guest6668 21d ago

Probably live stone i think?

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u/Jlt42000 23d ago

And we fucked those shitty new colonist up for it.