Quotes About Space

Shuttling back and forth in the equatorial plane where the brilliant stars of Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto - worlds that elsewhere would have counted as planets in their own right, but which here were merely satellites of a giant master.

When you all have figgered out how to sail across space to our shores, you'll find yourselves just as welcome as the people who come to your shores.

Tiempo atrás Norton había llegado a la convicción de que a algunas mujeres no debería permitírseles viajar en las naves espaciales; la ingravidez tenía efectos sobre sus senos que resultaban demasiado perturbadores.Ya era

One by one she would cut through the orbits of Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion... worlds bearing the names of gods and goddesses who had vanished only yesterday, as time was counted here.

Einsteinian time dilation.

classical Hohmann orbit—

I'm lighting a cigarette—I've always wanted to smoke in a space suit.

I'm only an ex-astronomer;

after Hal had refused to open the Pod Bay door.

The gate opened. The gate closed. In a moment of time too short to be measured, space opened and turned on itself.

everything in space-time that will later become our universe is contained in that small volume producing the awesome light.

The Star Gate opened. The Star Gate closed. In a moment of time too short to be measured, Space turned and twisted upon itself. Then Japetus was alone once more, as it had been for three million years--alone, except for a deserted but not yet derelict ship, sending back to its makers messages which they could neither believe nor understand.

Vastitas Borealis

lounge-cum-dining-room

Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. (That very word newspaper, of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics.)

The time had not yet come when Man could leave his mark upon the Solar System.

British Interplanetary Society.

In that moment it seemed to Brant that from his hilltop he was looking over Time rather than Space: and in his ears there whispered the soughing of the winds of eternity as they sweep into the past.

As crianças crescem depressa neste ambiente de baixa gravidade. Mas não envelhecem na mesma proporção e assim viverão mais do que nós.

But the age of the Machine-entities swiftly passed. In their ceaseless experimenting, they had learned to store knowledge in the structure of space itself, and to preserve their thoughts for eternity in frozen lattices of light. They could become creatures of radiation, free at last from the tyranny of matter.

holographic principle.

There was only one Eye, though it had many projections into spacetime. And it had many functions.

The Cold Equations

mundos que en cualquier otra parte hubiesen sido considerados como planetas por propio derecho, pero que allí eran simplemente satélites de un amo gigante.