an eventual disillusionment of catastrophic proportion that wrings the heart and collapses the firmament itself, creating a black hole. If Vittoria’s orbit was such that she hadn’t been studying the diagram of the universe in front of the bar, then, maybe, just maybe,L’eclissewouldn’t hav...
and see paglen’s latest provocation tracing its course across the firmament for all the world to see. and then, perhaps two months from now, it will be gone. a normal cubesat deployed in similar orbit might stay aloft for 20 years, but the rapid orbital decay caused by the added drag ...