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вЂ“ Still donвЂ™t believe in giants? Suck my giant dick. But who wants to hear that?Дefinitely not the thousands of so-called вЂњprintersвЂќ who saw her quote online and flooded public eye-feeds with their own from Genesis 6:4-вЂњThere were giants in the earth in those days and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renownвЂќ who shared links to news stories about massive footprints discovered in China, Bolivia, and South Africa who signed off messages with the sincerest of valedictions: She quit playing those mind games long ago, smart enough to know the human brain looks for patterns, seeks them out religiously, to deny the claustrophobia of utter insignificance. вЂњPeople lie to themselves,вЂќ she told the reporter. But cold, hard facts donвЂ™t solidify in the minds of the masses, Homo ignoramuses, sheep in peopleвЂ™s clothing whoвЂ™d rather believe in Goliath than science. These вЂњfootprintsвЂќ couldвЂ™ve been impact craters, land erosion, shadows from methane clouds. Twenty-four prints total, in a single-file pattern each one sixty centimeters long, twenty wide, three deep, according to various imaging teams. What looked to be вЂњgiant footprintsвЂќ on Titan, on the northwest shoreline of Ligeia Mare, a hydrocarbon lake larger than Lake Superior. But denial only added fuel to the viral wildfire as the mysterious pictures spread to all corners of the globe: Were these the lost 350 photographs from the Cassini-Huygens mission? The European Space Agency, on the record, said not a chance. Take, for instance, the leaked images from NASAвЂ™s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which captured the public imagination-and common sense. The same canвЂ™t be said for the world at large a lonely world of blind believers, who see what they want to see. Definitely not the banduns Gramma used to tell stories about back in the day. Jenkins was quoted as saying by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Or 1.2 billion kilometers away on SaturnвЂ™s largest moon, which may or may not be inhabited by giants, depending on who you ask. ItвЂ™s choice, not chance, that defines who we are, where we end up.

Was that destiny too? Or did Gramma refuse to take her вЂњmedвЂ™sinвЂќ? вЂњYou cainвЂ™t defy you and I, baby, this some destiny-level shit here,вЂќ Dave used to say before he got clean, before Trane was born, before Gramma passed. A long ride ahead-five years, two months, give or take-with gravity assists from Venus and Jupiter flinging Orion II like a slingshot to the destination. Charlene Jenkins turns away from her homeworld, never minding who she left behind. As the Richard Strauss tone poem, вЂњAlso sprach Zarathustra,вЂќ rises in her ears, like the sun in her eyes, Dr. Strapped in this single-person spacecraft, plugged into tubes for food, water and waste, the thirty-three-year-old astrophysicist from South Carolina and soon-to-be first-ever human to step foot on Titan never felt freer in her life. Prayers unheard, wishes ungranted, for theyвЂ™ve made their bed and now liars must lie. Picture the planetвЂ™s surface, where the wonders of the old world buckle at the top of the hour under the weight of new wars where down below, all those little people fall to their knees, desperate voices crying, crying out to their deity-du-jour for deliverance. The Blue Marble is shrinking as Orion II lifts off, ripping from the grasping tentacles of EarthвЂ™s gravity, the world gets smaller, smaller, a blot on the cosmic sheet of infinite blackness, which closes in like a camera iris in a classic filmвЂ™s final shot. Series: The Tales of Gorlen VizenfirtheД«lasting off / blasting off / blasting off / blasting offД«ear the cross / bear the cross / bear the cross / bear the cross.Series: From the Lost TravelersвЂ™ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.

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