by Wayne23 » Sat Jun 05, 2021 1:07 pm
1/26: 74-65. Tied after 10. Down 7 at the break. Up 7 with 10 to go after a nice run. At last a road win!
16, 8 for Bond, 16, 6 for Heng, 13, 6, 3 for Wall. +5 RBs, only 8 TOs.
We definitely won this one inside, +28 in the paint, and we took 22 more shots.
8-12, 3-4 Maine visits next. This is a team we should beat, especially inside.
Euf Miki hurt his leg. Out for a week.
A very near miss. A small rock, less than a meter in diameter, was missed by the computers until it was very close to us and headed right for the middle of the ship. We went into what we informally call "red alert" mode. That's not what it's called but it's what most people on board call it. Anyway, when that alarm sounds you have ten seconds to find something to hold tight to, or, if you're lucky, to strap your self into. Then the ship is going to make some serious changes of course. There's a doomsday alarm which means you have 2 seconds. That hasn't happened yet but if it ever does there will be a LOT of injuries.
So we got the "red alert" and ten seconds later the ship went straight down to avoid the rock. It was almost 100% successful but not quite. The rock brushed against the aft part of the ship but did no more than scratch and dent the hull in that area. Even a tiny bit closer and there would likely have been a hull breach, and everyone in that part of the ship would have been killed. This time, no one was.
There were 18 injuries, none of them life threatening but some of them serious. We dodged a bullet.
After everything was back to normal we sent a shuttle to examine the rock. It turns out it was very much atypical, made of rare metals, none of which exist on Earth, and none of them at all magnetic and only barely perceptible under normal light. Not dark matter, of course, but a very nonreflective, nonmagnetic rock. That's why the ship's instruments didn't pick it up until it was so close to us.
Adjustments have been made which will make this type of rock easier to detect more quickly and from a greater distance. It's possible this was a one of a kind event but there's no way to know. It may be that this kind of rock occurs regularly in this sector of space. We'll find out over time.