Strip 728 -- First Seen: 2011-06-20
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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Exterior shot of Variable Star, gliding gracefully among the stars on its ion thrusters.
Harmon (from aboard the ship): The floating cities are all in the mid-to-high latitudes, 45 degrees or more.
Harmon: This allows them to take advantage of the jet streams and circle the planet in days rather than months.

Panel 2
Exterior of the Skydome Lounge, we are looking through the transparent dome (hemispheric, positioned on the side of the central passenger cylinder facing away from the thruster array, it's about 1/3 the diameter of the cylinder it sits on.
Harmon: Recent forays into the lower latitudes have turned up more complex life forms.
Harmon: Things that sort of swim.

Panel 3
Three-shot of Reggie, Babbette and Harmon, still at the restaurant table, now near to finishing their meals. Re-establish the scene. Harmon has their undivided attention.
Harmon: We hope something more animal or plant-like might be found nearer the equator.
Harmon: By the way, the DNA in the 'algae' is the same as Terran life and extinct Martian life.

Panel 4
Three-shot again of Harmon, Reggie, Babbette.
Harmon: It's the smoking gun confirming the theory of exogenesis ...
Reggie: Or panspermia …
Harmon: Quite right – on a common origin of life in the solar system and maybe beyond!