¶ Spaceship Earth (1)
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Spaceship Earth:
"Sun-orbiting speed. Aboard Earth we are accustomed to the idea of big ships carrying small lifeboats; launches, tenders, and gigs. We must now think of our space-rocketed capsules as small boats launched outwardly from our bigger spaceship.
“But these speed variations of our spaceship and its launches become minuscule and negligible in comparison the the speed of Spaceship Earth as a solar system component as that solar system itself orbits within our galactic nebula’s even greater perimeter motion and our galactic nebula’s collective motion in respect to the other nebulae.”
¶ Citations
- BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.5, 1968
