"Everything is going to be different here. I knew that, I sought it out on purpose, and it's taken a while to sink in on a properly visceral level. But I think I will manage. In the early days of the haut project someone said that well before the end goal was achieved you ought to be able to put a half-dozen haut five-year-olds on a half-terraformed planet and leave for thirty years, only to find that after twenty-five, they had become tired of waiting for you and were sitting on your doorstep. And I am not five and this planet is more than half-terraformed."
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Date: 2014-07-28 01:25 am (UTC)"Everything is going to be different here. I knew that, I sought it out on purpose, and it's taken a while to sink in on a properly visceral level. But I think I will manage. In the early days of the haut project someone said that well before the end goal was achieved you ought to be able to put a half-dozen haut five-year-olds on a half-terraformed planet and leave for thirty years, only to find that after twenty-five, they had become tired of waiting for you and were sitting on your doorstep. And I am not five and this planet is more than half-terraformed."