The laws of astronomy are essentially ruining my life.
Her escape velocity exceeds the speed of light, so I’m stuck in permanent orbit around her. Such an eccentric, irregular orbit. I drift around peacefully most of the time until I’m close to her and then I zip past into cold empty oblivion again. Until the next time.
I can crunch the numbers, calculate the forces involved. I know precisely what’s happening, but I’m just an asteroid caught in her gravity field. I can’t control my own motion.
And someday my irregular orbit will fail me, and she’ll burn me alive.
Her escape velocity exceeds the speed of light, so I’m stuck in permanent orbit around her. Such an eccentric, irregular orbit. I drift around peacefully most of the time until I’m close to her and then I zip past into cold empty oblivion again. Until the next time.
I can crunch the numbers, calculate the forces involved. I know precisely what’s happening, but I’m just an asteroid caught in her gravity field. I can’t control my own motion.
And someday my irregular orbit will fail me, and she’ll burn me alive.
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I started laughing when this prompt was selected because I was literally in the middle of Astronomy homework at the time. So I took a break to participate.
As well as being a way to show off some science, this was drawn from an extensive clunky analogy I created some time ago to explain a relationship to myself while I was trying to make sense of what was going on. It involved asteroids flung into space and accumulating enough mass to become a planet of its own. Very corny.
Do you think the narrator is male or female?
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