Life Elsewhere
Steamboat tether whispers cuts like jagged glass or dust across time. Water in a black hole or next to it (whatever that means.) But more water than all the oceans of the earth and frozen way frozen. Beyond Mars: billions of trillions, googolplex ice particles reflecting light being rings around planets.
I’m chilly now and I haven’t begun to think about the planets and moons encased in ice – the comets and asteroids made entirely of ice winging their way through space.
Soon our time of moisture will evaporate as this other ice becomes water: moisture and life elsewhere.
Proximal is relative.
Whenever it happens it will still be too soon.
John Bailes/Kotatsu Roko
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Prospect Hill
