Our New Deathkingdom

[Dave Monroe]

Walter Cronkite, requiescat in pace; Ad Astra per Aspera ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgllSrCo7Fg

   "Its the cycle over now, and a new one ready to begin?  Will our
new Edge, our new Deathkingdom, be the Moon? I dream of a great glass
sphere, hollow and very high and far away ... the colonists have
learned to do without air, it's vacuum inside and out [...] Inside the
 colony, the handful of men have a frosty appearance , hardly solid,
no more alive than memories, nothing to touch . . . only their remote
images, black  and white film-images, grained ..."

--Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Pt. IV, p. 723