Phoenix Starship Neil Armstrong—Keid Sphere, the Equatorial Drivers
PS Neil Armstrong hovered ten kilometers away from the north equatorial tube linear driver along the line of and ten kilometers from the spoke. Kenred stared at the holoscreen that displayed their position relative to the tube and spoke.
“I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this whole thing, and that holodisplay isn’t helping one bit,” Kenred said. “The internal dimensions of this cabin are ten meters.” He stretched his arms apart to emphasize his comment. “That tube is ten thousand times as wide as our cabin. Same for the spoke’s web plate—ten thousand times larger. And the spoke flanges—three thousand times larger. How does a person grasp that size?” His scales rippled multiple colors.
“Look at us,” he cont
