Having reread "Pride" and its sequel, Tau Zero, we proceed to the second story in Space Folk.
From Mercury:
"The stars remained ice-brilliant in their myriads, Earth glowed sapphire not far from the Milky Way, she thought she saw Luna as an atom of gold beside it." (p. 30)
Luna is much bigger in relation to Earth than any other moon in relation to its primary. Across an interplanetary distance, I think that Earth and Moon should be seen as a double planet rather than as a planet with a possibly discerned "atom" beside it.
Imaginatively, we have returned from beyond this universe into the Solar System which seems like home.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
While I agree Earth/Luna form a double planet, from a great distance the Moon would still LOOK appreciably smaller than Earth.
In one of Anderson's earlier stories, "Among Thieves," we see two double planets both of which were terrestroid and habitable (altho one of the planets needed a bit of terraforming), which I thought an interesting variation on the double planet idea.
For now the Solar System is mankind's home. But I still daydream about a FTL drive being invented soon!
Sean
Sean, I dream about once again having a full head of thick, wavy, brown hair, but I don't expect to see that anytime soon, either. :(
-kh
Kaor, Keith!
Ha! You're being the hard headed, realistic Sancho Panza to my Don Quixote!
A more realistic "day dream," and one which is more than a day dream, is how Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, hopes and plans to send a manned colonizing expedition to Mars in about four years. Maybe I can day dream about going to Mars!
And let's have a tiny, eensy teensy bit of hope that a FTL drive will be invented!
But I do sympathize for your hair loss!
Sean
Thank you Sean. I hope we may be able to travel to the stars with traversible wormhole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole#Traversable_wormholes)or ultra-relativistic STL with BH propulsion (https://www.space.com/24306-interstellar-flight-black-hole-power.html,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_starship,https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803).
-kh
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