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enceladus artists impression

tree-giants nearing extinction on enceladus

Snap, snap went the beaks as the clankers picked at a scatter of faint red rings which tinged the icy ground.

Their little circumscribed lives were about to extend in scope and potential.  Soon, when the big things were gone, when the tree-giants were crushed by the oblong bolts of force which would arrive within minutes from now, small beings would get their chance to become the dominant thrivers on [..........]; so he guessed.  And he, Hixton, might with some complacency take credit for that.  The thought made him all the more inclined to rest on his self-awarded laurels and do nothing more but wait for the end.

On the other hand – he could sense it about to happen - moods have a tendency to rebound. 

Thus, when the voice came at him, he said to himself: I knew it, I knew the kind of knock that was on the way.

The ball of meaning was suddenly inside his head, but thrown from a long way off, all the way from the horizon in fact: thrown at him by the giant feathery trees, the lords of [..........].  The ball said:  Come and talk to us before the end.

Robert Gibson, Enceladus Erupts

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