"Attention passengers! Our current ETA to Mars Port 47 is now 12: 29:49. Orbital insertion will commence at 11:30:47. Now, if you will tune your cabin viewscreens to the starboard channel, our science officer has linked into Galaxy Net's Far Eyes for you. What you will be witnessing is the newly discovered birth pangs of a star being born 53 light years away in the Asimov Quadrant of sector Clarke 24. For those of you in the Wyoming Lounge this will be channel 102267. And again, thank you for sailing Mars Direct." |
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