Picnic in Procyon by Rutra

Vue • Science Fiction • posted on Feb 17, 2008

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Last week I took my family for a picnic in one of the planets in the Procyon system. This is not far, just about 11 light years from Earth. It's a binary system with a normal star and a white dwarf. We had seen these statues before in a Galactic Geographic documentary and we thought it would be fun to watch them up close. Our kids had a good time climbing up on them (well, mainly my son). The gravity is only half of Earth's, so it wasn't too dangerous. This shot was taken by Roy, our android, from the top of a nearby hill. He can't cook but he sure takes nice photos with his zoom-eyes. After the picnic, we took a nap in the comfortable shade of one of these statues. There was a cool gentle breeze blowing from the south. It was a nice time and we are already making plans to return there soon because my son was fascinated with something mysterious he saw in the distance...

Comments (49)

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TheWingedOne

2:08AM | Mon, 18 February 2008

LOL - great story! Love the idea of another easter island somewhere in space. I'm wondering how the story continues...

jdehaven

3:40AM | Mon, 18 February 2008

The story goes very well with this extra-terrestrial easter island like scene- a wonderful imagination and creative ability behind this, always a new surprise and interesting idea in each of your renders!

AnAardvark

9:43AM | Mon, 18 February 2008

I like it, and the story is fun too. The suggestions I would make are: first, there should be some shadow from the white dwarf star, and second, perhaps some footprints. It might be possible to make footprints in vue using ecosystem and displacement, but I'm just at the very beginning of learning, so this may not work.

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