Pluto's Ghost Quotes

“Now I’m totally uncomfortable.  I am not going to talk about this.  A man’s dreams are supposed to be private.  If they weren’t, we could project them from our heads for very bizarre and sometimes unspeakably naughty prime time TV.”
― B.C.CHASE, Pluto's Ghost: Encounter Edition

“Leave it to Beaver?  What about something a little more exciting, but still your color, like Fifty Shades of Grey? ISS: Sounds boring as heck.  What’s that about?  The weather in Seattle? MCC: Never mind. ISS:”
― B.C.CHASE, Pluto's Ghost: Encounter Edition

“Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellite”
― B.C.CHASE, Pluto's Ghost: Encounter Edition

“Shiro can’t accuse me of looking out the windows all the time anymore because they have all been shuttered.  Watching the thick, boron nitride nanotube shutters slide down and lock into place over the big lounge windows was somewhat sobering.  But it’s not the least of what’s to come. Tonight we will enter our crew quarters where we will be stuck for six days while the space station performs the perihelion maneuver.  We will come within four solar radii—that’s a blistering 2,784,000 kilometers from the sun—and will accelerate to a mind-blowing speed of 341,546 kilometers per hour.  The maneuver itself will last just over twenty-nine hours as we travel all the way around the back side of the sun, but we need to be shielded from the worst of the solar radiation both on the approach and the departure. All the numbers make it sound simple, but the fact of the matter is this is by far the most dangerous part of our journey.  Despite NASA’s best efforts to shield the spacecraft, it very well might not have been enough.  We will be traveling around a star, an unbelievably immense body of power and energy producing the might of six trillion nuclear bombs every second.  (I would start thinking of myself as a bit of a brainiac, but I only know this because Commander Sykes told me.)  With flares and coronal mass ejections (some of which occur once every five days or more), we could easily be obliterated by an incoming blast of superheated gas.”
― B.C.CHASE, Pluto's Ghost: Encounter Edition