Even our sense of time comes from them. The time it takes the Earth to spin on its axis; the Earth to go once around the Sun. On Jupiter, you’d be celebrating your first birthday. It’s hard to feel we matter out here, isn’t it? The distances are so vast—it’s hard to believe that we can make a difference.
Belters in the expanse are bitter at their colonial ancestors for dictating how they measure time and space
Aye beratna, it’s hard to feel we matter out here, the distances are so vast, it’s hard to believe that we can make a difference.