Straightening his back, he made himself ready for the moment. “You can’t leave, you know. But nowadays your typical oil billionaire simply accepted the inevitable, died, and got himself resurrected. “I should say, you are used to the built worlds, but they are vacuum habitats, where a single blow-out would be catastrophic.
Children here must be taught from an early age not to do that; a deliberate effort could build up destructive oscillation. “As long as you have airspeed, you can use the wings to make fine adjustments up or down. The engineering weak point would be the joint between panels: if the pane flexed enough, it would pop out from its mounting at the join. First published electronically in Strange Horizons, June 14, 2010.
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