After one full second of utter silence, the room exploded with noise.
It’s short for soft-landed grams. S-L-G. Slug. One slug gets one gram of cargo delivered from Earth to Artemis, courtesy of KSC.
Disco. God damn it, Lewis.
Tomorrow night, I’ll be in Giovanni Schiaparelli’s favorite hole!
It’s a good thing those numbers were right. If they hadn’t been, there would have been some serious scrambling when the orbital insertion went wrong. Maybe even some dying.
Settled.” He puts his claw against the divider. “Fist my bump.” I laugh and put my knuckles against the xenonite. “Fist-bump. It’s just ’fist-bump.
I figure if there’s a God, He won’t mind, considering the situation I’m in.
That’s really the limiting factor to life support. Not the amount of oxygen you bring with you, but the amount of CO2 you can remove.
If this becomes a negotiation by diplomats, it will never be resolved. We need to keep this among scientists. Space.
Jesus, what a complicated process,” Venkat said. “Try updating a Linux server sometime,” Jack said.
Just tell mom the supplies would last, okay?
I’ve been thinking about laws on Mars. Yeah, I know, it’s a stupid thing to think about, but I have a lot of free time.
I panted in my suit and suppressed the urge to puke. That was way the hell more exertion than I’m built for. An oxygen-deprivation headache took root. It’d be with me for a few hours, at least. I’d managed to get altitude sickness on the moon.
Thing is,” Chuck continued, “without the dish, a signal would have to be really strong – ” “Like, melting-the-pigeons strong,” Morris supplied. “ – for him to get it,” Chuck finished.
Hey, I’m going to fall unconscious and hallucinate for a while. By the way, I spend a third of my time doing this. And if I can’t do it for a while, I go insane and eventually die. No need for concern.
I mean, come on!” Morris said. “What are the odds?” Chuck turned to him. “One in three, based on empirical data. That’s pretty bad if you think about it.
Why not? It should be pretty damned obvious why not! They didn’t want to put astronauts next to a glowing hot ball of radioactive death!
Goddamn, it’s annoying to commit crimes in a small town.
All of Earth is watching but powerless to help.
It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft.