our narrator makes it to the distant sun hes headong toward. the best part is that he does not adjust well to zero G when the decelleration finishes and he feels himself about to puke and he doesnt have a bag ir anything so he ends up puking down hsi shirt. gross. he uses his special instruments to see the Petrova line. while he's observing it all of a sudden theres a bright light and it heads his way and he kinda gets scared and stops looking. its scary, something heading at you super fast. especially in space. when he looks again, the Petrova line is half as bright. The second best part is that as he's looking around he sees something blocking his view of the Petrova line. he looks a bit more and realizes its an alien space ship.
ch 7 pg 121
narrator does some measuring and figures out the alien space ship is only 217 meters away. its 139 meters long. his ship is 47 meters long. reading this at first i thought ot would be fun if the distance between the ships was gonna be equal to their lengths added together. he takes control of the ships navigation and does a bit of moving around. the alien ship mirrors the movements. then a robot climbs on top of the alien ship and throws a canister to narrator. its thrown very slowly so narrator has plenty of time to ger on his space suit and get out there and catch the cylinder. he gets the cylinder inside the ship and is super excited and he opens it up. it smells bad and its hot enough to burn his hands. so he decides to slow it down and do some science. problem is all the science stuff is set up to work in gravity. so narrator has to figure out how to do that.
ch 8 pg 136
flashback to earth when they realize they need the lab to have gravity to work. the ship is a centrifuge so the lab has gravity.
back in the present narrator has opened the cannister and its a model of all the stars and planets affected by the astrophage. one star is specially labelled. narrator interprets this to say this is the star the aliens are from and they came here with the same goal of figuring out why Tau is not affected by astrophage. he finds the sun in the model and marks it and sends it back to the aliens. they send back a cannister with models of the two ships connected by a tube. they want to meet face to face.
ch 9 pg 154
tubing commences. narrator goes into the tube, which has a door half way. possible big problems. 1 their air is very amonium smelling so they might not breath the same air. 2 their side of the door is super hot. they might not be able to live at the same temperature. theres a knock on the door.
ch 10 pg 169
There's an alien on the other side. There's a lot of math and science based communication. We learn some important stuff. The aliens atmosphere is ammonia and their atmosphere is 29 times denser than earth's. Also that their numbering system is base six and their second is a little less than two and a half earth seconds. He's also able to explain the concept of two hours to the aliens. Cause he needs a nap.
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