12/25/2023 0 Comments Barsoom project![]() ![]() "Gravity and spin became the dominant factors. The great storm sparkled like a fireworks display. ![]() The viewpoint zoomed in on one of the whorls as streamers began to separate, giving it the look of a carelessly spray- painted archery target. There were hurricane shapes at the centers. The vast interstellar dust clouds bowed before it flattened, then began to collapse and condense. Then the shock waves arrived with a rolling crash that owed less to physics than to Dream Park magic. The supernova had died to nothing … no, not quite gone. And so it remained until the shock wave from a nearby supernova disturbed its equilibrium." There were snowflakes and snowballs, protocomets, scattered through it. "Though details differ, current theories agree that the solar system originated as a cold cloud of interstellar gas. Marty's round face was soft with wonder, and his eyes gleamed. His chief deputy Marty Bobbick had a grip on his elbow. The thirteen hundred dignitaries gathered here by Cowles Industries and IntelCorp were in for a hell of a show. There were flame- colors in the shock waves. It was blinding … it was already dimming, while shells of lesser fire expanded from the supernova at ferocious speed. One dim star abruptly flared brighter than all the rest. Never had the stars made any noise at all, but now Griffin's bones rattled with the reverberations of the best sound system in the Western hemisphere. Blobs and streams of dark matter moved across the stars, dimming them. Never had the skies of Earth been so fully or brightly populated. "Come with us now, and peer into the past of our solar system, to the formation of our most distinctive neighbor-"Ī darkened dome a few hundred meters across became a universe: the stars emerged.Ībove and below, they flamed in primal glory. Ever have we looked back to the roots of our cultures, the origin of our species, the genesis of our planet. "Yet they have never lost their magic, never diminished in majesty. The carts glided through an endless, empty night, invisible to each other. Phantasmal carts danced about him in elaborate patterns, orange outlines in his infrared goggles. It filled the vast dark cavern of Gaming Area A with its rolling, resonant embrace. The narrator's voice echoed everywhere and originated nowhere. " ‘In the beginning.' Three words spoken uncounted billions of times."
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