Story om astronauter som satte ut ett alien varningsljus på månen (eller Mars?)

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Min far och jag pratade om sci-fi-historier som vi har läst under åren. Han frågade om jag någonsin hade läst

"that one about those astronauts on the moon, or maybe Mars?. I don't remember much, except these astronaut guys discover this piece of alien technology laying there on the ground, conspicuously unmarred and free of the all-pervading Martian (or perhaps lunar) dust, emitting a ringing or buzzing sound that could be heard through their suits and the vaccum of space or whatever."

Jag antar att det var en del fram och tillbaka dialog mellan dessa kosmiska pionjärer och kanske till och med ett dash Mission Control-piping med sina två cent från Terra Firma för smak. Men detaljerna som spelades ut, den mänskliga naturen var vad den är, så slutade dessa astronauter så småningom ner, sa "skruva den" och hittade bollarna att hämta det.

Ljudet (signal?) stoppades omedelbart. Artefakten - jag tror att han sa att den var boxformad och metallisk - var någon typ av "Dessa galna rövlösa apor klarade äntligen att krypa från sitt rock" -detekteringssystem. Så länge de vansinniga små chimpanserna svängde från lem till lem, klubbade varandra över huvudet ner på Moder Jord, fortsatte signalen stadigt ut i rymden mot vilken planet som helst, dessa mystiska utomjordingar kallade hem sött hem.

    
uppsättning Winston Aarron Webb 07.03.2017 13:18

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Du beskriver " Sentinel " av Arthur C. Clarke, den historia som blev grunden för månsekvensen i filmen 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Per wikipedia

The story deals with the discovery of an artifact on Earth's Moon left behind eons ago by ancient aliens. The object is made of a polished mineral, is tetrahedral in shape, and is surrounded by a spherical forcefield. The narrator speculates at one point that the mysterious aliens who left this structure on the Moon may have used mechanisms belonging "to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces."

The narrator speculates that for millions of years (evidenced by dust buildup around its forcefield) the artifact has been transmitting signals into deep space, but it ceases to transmit when, sometime later, it is destroyed "with the savage might of atomic power". The narrator hypothesizes that this "sentinel" was left on the moon as a "warning beacon" for possible intelligent and spacefaring species that might develop on Earth.

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the operation of the sentinel is activated when sunlight touches it for the first time after it was dug up.

Du kan läsa den online här .

    
svaret ges 07.03.2017 13:23
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Även om detta skulle kunna vara "Sentinel", är en annan möjlighet 2001: A Space Odyssey , det bättre kända arbetet som novellen växte in i. Det är både en film av Stanley Kubrick och en bok av Arthur C. Clarke, utvecklad tillsammans.

Objektet är känt som TMA-1, för Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One.

"The first party discovered nothing - just the usual level terrain, buried beneath a very thin layer of moon-dust. They sank a drill in the exact center of the magnetic field to get a core sample for study. Twenty feet down, the drill stopped. So the survey party started to dig - not an easy job in spacesuits, as I can assure you.
"What they found brought them back to Base in a hurry. We sent out a bigger team, with better equipment. They excavated for two weeks - with the result you know."

(...)

The object before which the spacesuited man was posing was a vertical slab of jet-black material, about ten feet high and five feet wide: it reminded Floyd, somewhat ominously, of a giant tombstone. Perfectly sharp-edged and symmetrical, it was so black it seemed to have swallowed up the light falling upon it; there was no surface detail at all. It was impossible to tell whether it was made of stone or metal or plastic - or some material altogether unknown to man.

(...)

"You see, it is approximately three million years old. What you are now looking at is the first evidence of intelligent life beyond the Earth."

När den är helt utgrävd och rörd av solen för första gången skickar den ut en "piercing electronic shriek".

Floyd was still musing over these thoughts when his helmet speaker suddenly emitted a piercing electronic shriek, like a hideously overloaded and distorted time signal. Involuntarily, he tried to block his ears with his spacesuited hands; then he recovered and groped frantically for the gain control of his receiver. While he was still fumbling four more of the shrieks blasted out of the ether; then there was a merciful silence.
All around the crater, figures were standing in attitudes of paralyzed astonishment. So it's nothing wrong with my gear, Floyd told himself; everyone heard those piercing electronic screams.
After three million years of darkness, TMA-1 had greeted the lunar dawn.

    
svaret ges 07.03.2017 14:12