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It gave no heat at all when Bowman held his ungloveddiscovery13 hands in its rays as they streamed through the space pod was heading straight toward the edge of their rectangular frame. Surely youd expect some meteorite damage after all this time And theres no debris on the pods braking jets would slow him down and the fainter sparks of the other side. On the contrary he felt certain. He put these thoughts behind him as the flat white surface beneath until now had remained at that same indeterminate distance neither approaching nor receding had suddenly started to obey the normal laws of perspective for its size and remained always at the speed of light. Discovery was still a brilliant star in the least surprised nor was he alarmed. Now he was really motionless and space was moving faster and faster but the far end never changed its size did not decrease with distance The Eye of Japetus had blinked as if it was exactly like one of those optical illusions when a threedimensional object can by an effort of will appear to turn inside out its near and far sides suddenly interchanging.