I never understand how anything in those worlds work. I used to think that science was unchanging. At least the concrete details. Avogadro’s number, vacuum permeability, the lift equation. Those are all very real and set in facts. But these ports seem to bend those numbers and equations in nonstandard ways. Making it look like magic. [Because he ( Read more... )

Hayley is gone. Not just off barge, but off my item, too.

[Filtered to those who were friends with Hayley*]

I just found out today or I would have told you sooner. I'm not sure when she left, but...she's gone. I've checked her room. I've checked my item. If she does come back, she's...not my inmate anymore.

I'm s- Nevermind.

[Filtered to ( Read more... )

Fuck.

Has anyone seen Hayley since the beginning of this flood? I thought it might be because of the flood that my item said she was gone... [A sigh.] I was obviously wrong.

She's gone again.

The only reason I deal with his shit is because death isn't exactly appealing either.

[There's a clattering in the background that sounds suspiciously ( Read more... )

Are you still killing each other, then? Stay away from my inmate.

I'm busy and I have better things to do than revive her constantly. So me a favor and go elsewhere for this ( Read more... )

I suppose I should have some sort of connection with this day. If my calendar is right, which, on the barge, is not always a guarantee, then today is the one year mark. Hmm...this should be a reflection on what has happened or perhaps a comparison between who I was then and who I am now. What I've learned ( Read more... )

[He’s oh so very awkward... Science always makes it better. So does alcohol.]

We are made of the stars. Every atom in our bodies, every…every molecule that we have…has come from a star. From the birth, from the death, from the very existence of stars themselves. Those points of light that seem so very, very far away. They’re so much more than…what ( Read more... )

Morality. Ethics. Politics. Are there any other subjects that might serve to 'entertain' us in their controversy? Stave off the boredom, maybe?

People have always been so good about muddying the truth from a clear, logical solution. Don't ask me if I have one. There are better things to worry about.

[Private to Arthur]

Do me a favor?

[Private ( Read more... )

[Capa's room is cleaner, at least. He had picked it all up and rearranged everything in a more orderly way as soon as the flood was over and he realized what happened. There is a telescope on his desk, halfway taken apart, and a wine glass, barely touched..]

I broke it. I broke. The. Telescope. [Frustrated sigh.] At least it's fixable ( Read more... )

[Capa's sitting on the railing, with the camera facing out, towards the abyss. It's a very precarious little perch, but he's happily oblivious to the danger. Being out on the railing means that he'd be closer to the stars. And that is the most important thing.]

A star is not just a star. To most, they're just little pinpoints of light in the sky. ( Read more... )

I've been to the VLT once. The...uh...Very Large Telescope array. In Chile. It was just the once. When we were studying. But I remember, on the clearest nights, when the moon was new, you could get such fantastic images.

And still...nothing really compares to what we have here, right on deck. I've been in a spaceship before. I guess this place kind ( Read more... )