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Tragedy on Parallax

This ancient archive photo shows the crash of the LL314, during its approach to the geothermal research centre on the Parallax.

 

Gravitational anomalies bent and twisted the light around the asteroid, meaning that pilots had to trust their instruments and not their eyes. Unfortunately many of the visual distortions were so convincing that spacemen would disbelieve their radars, fly by sight and hit the ground.

 

This experiment would have been impossible without Lego Jim's work on MOCpages.

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Uploaded on January 5, 2015