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logically, the stars were still shining but we couldn’t see them. They were not gone but obscured: eclipsed.
it was a mystery, not a catastrophe.
Haha
Haha
this moonless, cloudless, starless night,
Simile
she was a five-day teetotaler but took a little whiskey on the weekends.
Haha
with a book
Mee too - when stressed or worried or confused, I fall into fiction.
What it meant was that every satellite in orbit had vanished along with the stars.
Haha
It was a puzzle almost as urgent and nearly as disturbing as whatever had happened to the sky.
Young love always is. Mee too.
When my father was still alive and still working for E. D. Lawton at their startup firm in Sacramento.
Simile nice
Of course, it wasn’t really the sun. It was an impostor sun, a clever fabrication. But we didn’t know that yet.
Chilling.
why did you all slide into the Spin without even a murmur of protest?
the parable of the frog.
The obliteration of the stars wasn’t slow or subtle, but neither, for most of us, was it immediately disastrous.
if you drove a bus or flipped burgers, it was all more or less warm water.
the International Space Station
Former Soviet space center, launched the first satellite 1957 and manned space flight 1961.
Satellite-launching station of the European Space Agency in French Guiana.
Haha naturally.
News stories traveled like whispers, squeezed through transatlantic fiber-optic cables rather than ricocheted through orbital space:
Chilling
She would have been forty-five years old that fall.
father had died on the 80 near Vacaville, driving home from a business trip.
All over the world, nobody can see the stars and nobody can see the moon.”
Not an optical barrier but an optical filter.
Haha
what the loss of orbital access might mean for the aerospace industry in general and the Lawton family in particular.
The sun, the moon, and the stars. In the years that followed,
we had lost something more subtle than a few lights in the sky. We had lost a reliable sense of place.
the second week of the October Event.
Much on Earth, including life itself, depends on the nature and amount of solar radiation reaching the planet’s surface,
What it lacked, however, were sunspots, prominences, or flares.
Haha - suddenly and without explanation. Simile
no detectable meteorites entered the atmosphere during the first weeks of the October Event, not even the microscopic ones called Brownlee particles.
It was, in astrophysical terms, a deafening silence.
Simile metaphor nice
the bewilderment deepened but the sense of public urgency ebbed.
the immediate consequences of it:
the enemy was stubbornly elusive.
Nothing’s where it’s supposed to be. He lost his map.”
we lived within commuting distance of Washington, D.C., but by Christmas it looked more like Vermont.
the first quail called).
Question
in the face of unknown and poorly understood threats, the human race managed not to trigger a full-blown global war,
by spring people were talking about “th...
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Haha
That summer the three of us rode our bikes to the Fairway Mall for the last time.
almost ten months after the Event …
