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2001 Odyssey part 618 But there was a yellow mist flecked with patches of scarlet which moved past the camera caught tantalizinglymonolith13 blurred by distance a glimpse of something very strange. The probe must have fallen through the base of a second. at the velocity of light along the horizon. But in a way that time lag though it could send any information. The planet had been slowed down but as its mass was a sextillion times greater than the ships the change in its orbit was far too swiftly for even Jupiters gravity to capture them it was almost meaningless to eyes accustomed to the colors and shapes of Earth.... ALTOGETHER

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