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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2007-01-17 02:05 pm

Around the universe in eighty days

Anyone want to guess which CD is playing in the background?

Just how fast would one have to go to circumnavigate the universe in 80 days, anyway?

It's a very golden-age song, with lyrics like

spoilers



"Atomic power on"

Atomic is a good word but little used these days.

"For our planet is the second from the sun"

And it's clear their sun is our sun so our universe traversing friends are Venusians.

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