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<blockquote data-quote="dragoner" data-source="post: 7564478" data-attributes="member: 6943731"><p>Some people's logic seems so poor as their arguments against destroy themselves.</p><p></p><p>I go from astronomers, their papers, blogs, and such. As far as I have read, many of these rogues come from forming in proto-planetary disc and then being thrown out, often when larger bodies such as gas giants move in their orbits. As well as star systems where they were in stable orbits and the star had an event, and the planet wandered out of orbit. Billions of star systems over billions of years, that would increase incidence quite a bit. They could come from independent mass-clumping though, star that never came to be, and all that. The universe is orderly, yet also sublime.</p><p></p><p>I don't think a big generation ship vehicle would follow, or even stop at one of these rogues, most likely dispatch smaller vehicles to investigate or mine. For example, IIRC oxygen becomes ice at lower than 54 Kelvin, that could be mined. Then the smaller vehicles would then catch up to larger vehicle(s). </p><p></p><p>There is also a statement here that any generation ship simply must have the ability to maneuver, as without it, it could collide with something. In this, much as with the Mars cycler or other cycler orbits, the big generation ship could use momentum imparted by the gravity of the rogue in a slingshot manner. So this could make finding a rogue of even greater importance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dragoner, post: 7564478, member: 6943731"] Some people's logic seems so poor as their arguments against destroy themselves. I go from astronomers, their papers, blogs, and such. As far as I have read, many of these rogues come from forming in proto-planetary disc and then being thrown out, often when larger bodies such as gas giants move in their orbits. As well as star systems where they were in stable orbits and the star had an event, and the planet wandered out of orbit. Billions of star systems over billions of years, that would increase incidence quite a bit. They could come from independent mass-clumping though, star that never came to be, and all that. The universe is orderly, yet also sublime. I don't think a big generation ship vehicle would follow, or even stop at one of these rogues, most likely dispatch smaller vehicles to investigate or mine. For example, IIRC oxygen becomes ice at lower than 54 Kelvin, that could be mined. Then the smaller vehicles would then catch up to larger vehicle(s). There is also a statement here that any generation ship simply must have the ability to maneuver, as without it, it could collide with something. In this, much as with the Mars cycler or other cycler orbits, the big generation ship could use momentum imparted by the gravity of the rogue in a slingshot manner. So this could make finding a rogue of even greater importance. [/QUOTE]
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