"Now she faced the spacefarers' truth, that the one thing we know for certain about this universe is that it is implacable."
-CHAPTER FOUR, p. 224.
Cosmic implacability is perpetually evident to spacefarers because they have to be continually protected either from vacuum in space or from an unbreathable atmosphere and other hostile conditions on a planetary surface. Earth is the one place in the universe where we do not die immediately. But the implacability is here, nevertheless. Gravity gets us if we fall from a height. And I need hardly list other dangers and threats. Spacefarers sees Earth as a borderless unity and the only (so far) abode of life so maybe life on Earth needs to be based on "the spacefarers' truth."
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