Comment Kim Stanley Robinsons Idea Would Be Cooler... (Score 1) 251
KSR, Author of the ever-popular Red, Green, Blue Mars trilogy of novels as well as a host of other extra- and neo-terrestrial adventures had a good one in his novella collection Icehenge http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312866097/qid=11 41145898/sr=1-27/ref=sr_1_27/104-7802270-0079101?s =books&v=glance&n=283155
I believe it's in this one that one of the side stories is about a "space golf" tournament in an astroid field that involves lobbing a small clump of rocket propelled debris at a "hole" astroid and using gravity of others to bend the path of the ball. In a humours take, the whole event is VERY dull, anti-climatic and ends in a draw for lack of time/recalculation by both "participants".
Almost like the original sport is without debauchery... 8^)
priceless,
l8r,
Levendis47
I believe it's in this one that one of the side stories is about a "space golf" tournament in an astroid field that involves lobbing a small clump of rocket propelled debris at a "hole" astroid and using gravity of others to bend the path of the ball. In a humours take, the whole event is VERY dull, anti-climatic and ends in a draw for lack of time/recalculation by both "participants".
Almost like the original sport is without debauchery... 8^)
priceless,
l8r,
Levendis47
