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Updated: July 2, 2025
"Who shall say what thou art? Diana's nimbus? The golden clasp of her floating robes? The blazing head of the great bolt that rivets the lunar hemispheres in union inseverable? Or cans't thou have been some errant bolide, which missing its way, butted blindly against the lunar face, and there stuck fast, like a Minie ball mashed against a cast-iron target? Alas! nobody knows.
But at 8:02 A.M. Pacific time, the situation changed. At that time Alaska reported an unscheduled celestial object of considerable size, high out of atmosphere and moving with surprising slowness for a body in space. Its course was parabolic and it would probably land somewhere in South Dakota. It might be a bolide a large, slow-moving meteorite.
Shouldn't we be as safe out there as that bolide? What fun it would be to feel ourselves sustained and upborne in the ether, more highly favored even than the birds, who must keep on flapping their wings continually to prevent themselves from falling!" "Very true, my dear boy," observed Barbican; "but how could we breathe?" "It's a fact," exclaimed the Frenchman.
Commander Jennsen, the Norwegian spaceman who had commanded the platform since before Rip’s arrival as a raw cadet, was dictating into his command relay circuit. As he spoke, printed copies were being received in the platform personnel office, Special Order Squadron headquarters on earth, aboard the cruiser Bolide in high space, and aboard the newly landed cruiser Scorpius.
So the Navy had to drop the investigation. Everybody on Marduk's scared of this Makann. You think there might be some tie-up between him and Dunnan?" "The idea's occurred to me. Have there been any more raids on Marduk trade-planets since the Battle of Audhumla?" "A couple. The Bolide was on Audhumla a while ago.
In that case, the velocity would have decreased by degrees, but the Projectile itself would not have suddenly stopped." "Suppose it had struck against some body in space." "What body, for instance?" "Well, that enormous bolide which we met." "Oh!" hastily observed the Captain, "the Projectile would have been dashed into a thousand pieces and we along with it."
It was an over-correction of the first soothing one. It was intended to be more soothing still. It said blandly that a bolide a slow-moving, large meteoric object had been observed by radar to be descending to earth. It had been tracked throughout its descent. It had landed in Boulder Lake.
He would show her rare specimens, some of which were superb. She did not know what a bolide was. She recalled that some one had said to her that at the museum were bones carved by primitive men, and plaques of ivory on which were engraved pictures of animals, which were long ago extinct. She asked whether that were true. Lagrange ceased to smile.
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