I hadn't thought of that
Returning home one clear winter's evening, I happened to be approaching my house just as the International Space Station was passing overhead. So I hustled my daughters outside to see it - it's quite an impressive sight, easily the brightest thing in the sky*, and moving with a steady, silent purpose.

As they watched, I explained that it was a real space station, and that people lived and worked in it, hundreds of kilometres up. I waited for the questions that must inevitably come from the enquiring minds of children... And sure enough:

"Daddy, how can it be a station if it's moving?"


* Yes, all right, apart from the moon and the sun. No-one likes a smartarse, you know.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 23 May 2013, 17:15, 4 replies)

I think you're confusing stationary with envelopes.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Thu 23 May 2013, 17:53, closed)

You should have said,'It's not. We are'.

( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Thu 23 May 2013, 18:58, closed)

Station!

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 23 May 2013, 21:03, closed)

The perfect opportunity to talk to her about relativity
And you blew it. Tsk!
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 24 May 2013, 15:47, closed)