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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] IMHO, the Botany Bay could have gotten into deep space all on her own. Give her a couple of centuries (270 yrs objective time) and a sublight speed of at least ten percent lightspeed, and she gets far enough from Earth that she could be considered lost. The Birdseye could also have had significant onboard propulsion, in some sort of a jettisonable stage. Who knows what philosophical reasons drove the project? Perhaps it was essential to get the dead bodies into deep space (and as we know, the vicinity of the Romulan border isn't all THAT deep). Applying pragmatic logic to the Birdseye project won't get us very far (literally!), since there's very little pragmatism in postmortem cryostasis anyway... Of course, the solar panels on the satellite do suggest an intended mission profile close to some star or another, not a deep space mission. The propulsion-less Voyager VI and Pioneer XI would be different matters, and should logically have encountered a wormhole, a "what used to be called a black hole" (as Decker puts it), or a "One Small Step" type anomaly. Or perhaps a bunch of alien abducteers. Perhaps these strange phenomena later disappeared because of Vulcan activity in the region: the Vulcans could have dredged the system clear of nav hazards, or scared away the abducting pranksters, while securing their survey operations. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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