"Constellations and the wan silver of the Milky Way were familiar. His twenty-year voyage had brought him no distance that especially mattered, through the immensity of these galactic outskirts." (p. 98)
Sol is in Cassiopeia.
At the end of 5, Kyra reflects that download Guthrie had walked on the Centaurian planet, Demeter. In 6, about the download on Demeter, he remembers being a download on the Moon and also being a man walking on a beach on Earth with his wife. He reflects on Demetrian evolution:
"Strange that here life in the oceans had long been rich, when thus far it barely existed on land. Or maybe not strange. Tides might well be what opened the way for evolution ashore, and moonless Demeter had only its sun to drive them." (p. 94)
Another reflection on the significance of Large Moons.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
The stars of the Centaurian system are 4.37 light years from Earth, a trifling difference in cosmic and galactic terms. And I have often there were a few stars no more than two light years from Sol. I think even our current, inadequate space technology could send a space ship two light years without it becoming intolerably long.
Sean
Sean,
James Blish started a novel about a white dwarf with planets six light months away. The star has been there all this time and is discovered by a new telescope.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Now that is an interesting notion! And I only wish there was such a star "only" six or seven light months from us!
Sean
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