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Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by fit2rule on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @01:41AM (#9136410)
Abandoned, but fully operational, alien base. We send humans there, land successfully, discover we are not alone in the Universe, and Humanity is united behind the effort to gain deeper understanding of ourselves. Also, there's a hidden door somewhere in the base that leads deeper into the interior of Ceres, where we discover .. the whole thing was a station.

A man can dream.

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Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by CatsoCatsoCatso on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @08:42AM (#9137560)
It's a massive radio telescope reflecting the sun.

See how the Effelsberg 100m RT looks from a satellite:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/50%C2%B031'29.0%22N+6%C2%B...

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Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by ridgeguy on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @02:06AM (#9136472)
In Alastair Reynold's scifi novel Pushing Ice, it wasn't Ceres, but another body in our solar system that with an apparent origin similar to what you've imagined...and behavior just too interesting for the curious primates to ignore...
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Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by IndianAstronaut on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @04:16AM (#9136805)
Eon was another good book which investigated this possibility of an alien rock orbiting earth.
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Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by TeMPOraL on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @07:55AM (#9137407)
And then we discover that Charon is in fact a mass relay...

Yes, I have such dreams too, sometimes.

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Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by danielbln on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @08:14AM (#9137464)
"Assuming direct control."
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Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by bjelkeman-again on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @08:28AM (#9137507)
Link it with the recent mysterious high altitude dust clouds on Mars and it could be the prelude to something exciting or downright nasty, if you read as much science fiction as I do.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/02/17/mysteri...

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Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by bonafidehan on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @01:49AM (#9136427)
That would be amazing. It would be so exciting to live through that.
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Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by ars on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @02:17AM (#9136492)
Why does that description sound like the beginning seasons of lost?
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