Chapter 6: Approach II Tiny points of light stream from its dark reddish surface, dropping down to a speed of only about 90,000 km/h, a still-unnoticed and unnoticeable dot from interstellar space makes its way from above the plane of the ecliptic through our home solar system.
Chapter 5 / Kickin' It: JPL Jim Chap 5 again0:00/11:071× “Framestreaming live from KCSB studios high atop Storke Tower at UCSB, it’s time for Kickin’ It with Bob & Beth.” We see a pale man seated wearing a dented and scratched brown fedora on his mousy brown hair. A bow tie is visible
Chapter 4 / Evolution II: The Dead End That Had to be Taken into Our Own Pseudopodia Chapter 4 evolution 20:00/2:351× Be fruitful and multiply — Genesis 1:28 KJV About seven billion years ago, something extraordinary happened on the sixth planet from the primary of the binary star, HD 176051. Though no one knows how it happened, RNA and its sister molecule, DNA, those
Chapter 2 / Evolution 1: The Greatest Story Ever Told Chap 20:00/2:161× The very deep did rot: O Christ! That this should ever be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. — Samuel Coleridge Taylor, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Current scientific belief states that four billion years ago, about half a billion
Prologue: Oumuamua Prologue0:00/2:591× He had a dizzying glimpse of those mysteries at the edge of existence that he had successfully ignored for most of his life. — Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama Approach Riding in from above the plane of the ecliptic, the stranger arrived, unseen and unnamed, in
Amorphous: Epigraph Epigraph0:00/0:351× I have been trying to think of the Earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connections…If not like an organism, what
Chapter 7: Samantha I Woodsmoke in the air Pine needle magic carpet Smoky bacon beckons — Clay Taid, One Thousand Syllables The first thing you notice is the smell. The coniferous aroma mixed with a hint of woodsmoke. It’s the scent of the best and longest vacations for a school kid — summer and Christmas.
News Chapter 3: Javon 1 Charlie 3 javon 10:00/7:301× Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport. — Gaius Petronius, Doing I love the feeling of her shoulders, each curve, the solidness of bone under taut muscle, the warmth of her skin. Working my thumbs
