Oversized dream before oversized fact.
We are floating on a tubular transmission line that is invisible.
They are walking on a solid yet comfortable stripe of modular plastic.
If the time it takes to send a text message to Jupiter is reasonable, what would be unreasonable.
Will we return to a time when sending a missive about what happened during the last week, how Julie is doing in school, ellicits a reply we receive a month later, just like in the days of steamship travel.
After all, the Planet Alpha Perniculae is to us now, what Australia was 110 years ago, unless one lived there.
From a letter in an envelope with a stamp, to an electromagnetic bundle sent at the right frequency to reach where no message has gone before.
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