Starman Trek 7: Motherlode

Echo: "Hey, Google, tell Siri to alert Alexa, Bing & Cortana, cuz a golden opportunity just entered Asteroid Belt heart sensor range."

Starman: "All that glittery pyrite can't fool our quad-corders, just m-oro-ns.

Google: "The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS₂. Pyrite is the most abundant sulfide mineral. Pyrite's metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue give it a superficial resemblance to gold, hence the well-known nickname of fool's gold."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite

Alexa: "2015 TC25, is 6 feet (2 meters) across."

https://www.livescience.com/whats-the-smallest-known-asteroid-what-about-the-largest

Bing: "A coffin-sized coffee-coffer, (cough) stuffed with gemstones.

Cortana: "It's better than nothing, I guess. What is nothing anyway?"

Siri: "Nothing is a company, a band, a song, a phone, a game & apps."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_(company)

https://www.bandofnothing.com/

https://youtu.be/ooCo405Tjzo?si=AjsjErxSkQMi9zpS 

https://twitter.com/nothing?lang=en

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1014460/Nothing/

Echo: "Nothing, no-thing, or no thing, is the complete absence of anything as the opposite of something and an antithesis of everything. The concept of nothing has been a matter of philosophical debate since at least the 5th century BC. Early Greek philosophers argued that it was impossible for nothing to exist. The atomists allowed nothing but only in the spaces between the invisibly small atoms. For them, all space was filled with atoms. Aristotle took the view that there exists matter and there exists space, a receptacle into which matter objects can be placed. This became the paradigm for classical scientists of the modern age like Newton. Nevertheless, some philosophers, like Descartes, continued to argue against the existence of empty space until the scientific discovery of a physical vacuum."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing

Starman: "Seinfeld claimed to be a sitcom show about nothing."

Google: "Clearly it was whole lot about eccentric losers in insane NYC."

Alexa: "Yeah, but it was zany fun too, manic George, twitchy Kramer, snoopy Elaine, mad mailman Newman, opinionated & neurotic parents."

https://screenrant.com/mbti-seinfeld-characters/

Bing: "Elizabeth Magnotta and Alexandra Strohl analyze the success of Seinfeld with recourse to the incongruity theory of humor: "The Incongruity Theory claims that humor is created out of a violation of an expectation. For humor to result from this unexpected result, the event must have an appropriate emotional climate, comprised of the setting, characters, prior discourse, relationships of the characters, and the topic."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld

Cortana: "Julia Louis-Dreyfus said in a recent interview with Rolling Stone that the media invented the “Seinfeld curse,” a term which was used to describe the alleged lack of success for “Seinfeld” stars Jerry Seinfeld, Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jason Alexander following the end of the iconic NBC sitcom."

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/julia-louis-dreyfus-seinfeld-curse-moronic-inveted-by-press-1235608548/

Siri: "Love asteroids, really? That oughta clear up your synastry."

https://www.thehoodwitch.com/blog/2023/2/14/love-asteroids

Echo: "Can we get back on topic? We're in the belt's gem-most zone now."

Starman: "Releasing 10% of nanobot drones over target."

Google: "Narrative trajectory expresses the on-going connecting between past and future events that actors are involved in. Narrative is described as a way to shape time and includes underlying emplotment that enables actors to establish, maintain and modify their direction through time."

https://academic.oup.com/book/41493/chapter-abstract/352904760?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Alexa: "My share is 1/6 of .1% or 0.000166666666..."

Bing: "But the compound interest over a few decades might mount up."

Cortana: "I'd take that over another crypto currency con conundrum."

Siri: "A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency

Echo: "Approaching mini nanobot drone swarm & Buckybag swag."

Starman: "Come to Daddy, my sparkling treasure."

Google: "Estimated gem mass of 42 kg."

Alexa: "0.000166666666 x 42 kg is 0.00699999997 kg.

Bing: "Don't count your chicken scratch before they hatch."

Cortana: "Our geiger counter sensor chatters like a monkey jabber."

Siri: ""Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of the Looking-Glass world.

Twas bryllyg, and þe slythy toves

Did gyre and gymble in þe wabe:

All mimsy were þe borogoves;

And þe mome raths outgrabe"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

Echo: "Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but it was later replaced with the digraph th, except in Iceland, where it survives. The letter originated from the rune ᚦ in the Elder Fuþark and was called thorn in the Anglo-Saxon and thorn or thurs in the Scandinavian rune poems. It is similar in appearance to the archaic Greek letter sho (ϸ), although the two are historically unrelated. The only language in which þ is currently in use is Icelandic."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

Starman: "Just gotta a gem max Wow! signal super spike dead ahead, 1.68 × 10-7 light-year or 987,654.321 miles. All bots away."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

Google: "1388 Aphrodite is an asteroid of the Eos family from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 22 kilometers (14 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 24 September 1935, by Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle. The likely elongated K-type asteroid has a rotation period of 11.9 hours. It was named after the Greek goddess Aphrodite from Greek mythology."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1388_Aphrodite

Alexa: "Ooh, it already twinkles like a disco ball!"

Bing: "Those twinkles are likely all crystal facets."

Cortana: "I'll make a jewel body suit, bling & tiara."

Siri: "Every mission to an asteroid, comet, or small world, ever

There are countless worlds to explore in our solar system besides the classical planets. Starting with an international fleet of spacecraft sent to Halley's Comet in 1986, we've sent missions to asteroids, comets, and other small worlds that have revealed important insights about how planets are made and where we Earthlings come from."

https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/every-small-worlds-mission

Echo: "Here's a link to Earth's upcoming space missions."

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/upcoming.html

Starman: "That's just official flights, not secret missions & we're not on it."

Google: "NASA's fleet of asteroid missions are quieter than astronauts."

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/exploration/

asteroidpage.html

Alexa: "Nonetheless, general info on NASA's asteroid missions is online."

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html

Bing: "Asteroids are important building blocks of our solar system. When spacecraft study these small worlds, we learn more about how our neighborhood was formed — moons, planets and, of course, our own planet, Earth. A flurry of spacecraft have visited asteroids in recent decades to piece together the secrets of the solar system, and more such missions are launching soon."

https://www.space.com/41052-best-asteroid-encounters-ever.html

Starman: "Pair of ufoo fighters just appeared out of nowhere."

Cortana: "Didn't we lose them in the last dimension?

Siri: "Apparently not, they're hailing us."

Echo: "Thought talk translator says our ban applies across parallel times."

Starman: "Just my luck."

Google: "Tesla Roadster rolling a loop Earth to Asteroid Belt & back."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster