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Crossing Oceanus
at the edge of the
ink-black reef
no land in sight
the antipodes,
where the folks are
inside-out
“Astronomers tracking the little spaceship's 26-year journey from
Earth believe Voyager has gone through a region known as termination
shock, some 8.7 billion miles from the Sun, and entered an area called
the heliosheath.
...
This region is where the charged solar particles known as the solar wind apparently slow down from a top speed of 1.5 million mph and bump up against gas from the space beyond our solar system.”
Boy's Surface: “According to the whimsical and delightful book by Jean Pierre Petit ‘Le Topologicon’, it can be pictured as a planet with only a single pole”
...
This region is where the charged solar particles known as the solar wind apparently slow down from a top speed of 1.5 million mph and bump up against gas from the space beyond our solar system.”
Boy's Surface: “According to the whimsical and delightful book by Jean Pierre Petit ‘Le Topologicon’, it can be pictured as a planet with only a single pole”
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