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"You Are Here -->"
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 3:27 pm
by NOTDilbert
....And so is everyone else that has ever been.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130722.html
Re: "You Are Here -->"
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 8:27 pm
by MerchManDan
Ah yes, I saw that on FB earlier. It answers a question that's been bugging me for some years, ever since I read
Saturn Rukh by Robert L. Forward. In that novel, the
rukh (flying creatures about 4 kilometers across) call them - technically,
us - "Mother-and-Child."
Re: "You Are Here -->"
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 8:50 pm
by scantrontb
MerchManDan wrote:Saturn Rukh by Robert L. Forward
AWEsome book!
Re: "You Are Here -->"
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:49 pm
by bmonk
It also reminds me of Asimov's "The Missing Item" (1977)--in which from Mars there are three morning or evening stars--but the creator of a cult forgot that the Earth actually has a companion planet . . . and so is never unaccompanied in the sky.