Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Saturn Space and Beyond the Infinite
This is how 2001: A Space Odyssey should have looked if special effects technology had existed to make the rings. If you cannot look at today's Astronomy Picture of the Day and feel a stirring in your soul...
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