Jack smiled as the jumper rose into the air, shooting straight up for a while before he leveled it off and started heading upward at a more oblique angle. Outside, the sky turned from the pink-laced blue of early morning to the white of the cloud layer. Soon, it would be dark blue, and then black and full of stars, and they would get their first
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Although it wasn't a field she had paid much attention to in years, Enid found it fascinating to have so much geological information available at her fingerprints. Using conventional Earth technology, it would have taken decades, and an untold number of grants, to gather the information revealed to her here.
"The southern islands appear to be following a hot spot," she added. "Like Hawaii, on Earth."
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Suddenly, you think nothing of flying around the planet in less than an hour, Enid laughed at herself. How had this become her life?
You are flying through space in a ten thousand year spacecraft, piloted by an alien clone of an American Air Force General, and you are getting excited about mid-ocean ridges? But then, she mused, how could she not?
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"What's so funny?"
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