To: stephenjohnbanker; sionnsar; airborne; tuliptree76; King Prout; Dead Corpse; Genesis defender; ...
In the quiet of the control stations, final measurements are taken, and correlated.
The Flying Castle has reached its apogee for this portion of the flight. It is time for the roller coaster to head downhill.
With a final check on the alignments, the roar of the mighty throats of tame Nuclear Dragons is muted to a distant vibration as the rotating habitats are illuminated by dozens of actinic flares.
The distant tiny Moon seems almost to quicken its retreat from this buzzing insect, as it rounds the course of its endless race.
Rocking back gently under the added thrust of the Nuclear Rocket Engines, the three habitats maintain a vertical orientation to the combined vectors. Nothing spills, No one awakens.
Only the birds are stilled, observing for a moment as the situation seems to hold a portent of hazard, and then resume their ceaseless activity.
The Flying Castle is on the move ... toward Mars.
2,329 posted on
01/05/2006 4:33:39 AM PST by
NicknamedBob
(How can I compete in a world of Cat 5 and wireless when my brain is wired by knob and tube?)
To: NicknamedBob
I'm already awake. Did the plesiosaur have indigestion this morning? It sounded like my neighbor's Rottweilers, back on earth!
2,330 posted on
01/05/2006 4:35:17 AM PST by
Tax-chick
(I am just not sure how to get from here to where we want to be.)
To: NicknamedBob
2,335 posted on
01/05/2006 5:14:00 AM PST by
Dead Corpse
(Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
To: NicknamedBob
Coming to with strange variations of "The Mighty Duke of York" running through my head...
A martian I will go
A martian I will go,
high ho the derry-o
A martian I will go...
2,337 posted on
01/05/2006 6:15:26 AM PST by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: NicknamedBob
Nothing spills, No one awakens. My cat woke up, but since there was no food involved he went back to sleep.
2,339 posted on
01/05/2006 8:12:55 AM PST by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: NicknamedBob
Your reports are rather comforting at times. Thanks.
To: NicknamedBob
YAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2,387 posted on
01/05/2006 1:25:41 PM PST by
Irish_Thatcherite
(~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
To: NicknamedBob
"The Flying Castle is on the move ... toward Mars"
Lock & Load!
2,412 posted on
01/05/2006 3:41:35 PM PST by
stephenjohnbanker
(Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our troops at home and abroad!!)
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