Re: Two Articles about What Brits Know (or Don't)...

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fred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Robert Sneddon) wrote:

> In message 
> <memo.20080207103602.3524A@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Paul
> Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >Reading one of the books as an adult what struck me was a section 
> >where Kemlo and his friends set out from the space station on 
> >their space scooters, stop, get off and walk around, as if they're 
> >a group of chums out for a bike ride in the country.  This is all 
> >supposed to be taking place somewhere in Earth orbit!
> 
>  I recall one of the Kemlo stories involved the Solar System being
> invaded by a wandering galaxy. Kemlo and his chums go off in their
> scooters and land on it.

Kemlo and the Star Men.  I have a copy and found this passage,
explaining what a galaxy is:

'... We shall be travelling for between twenty-four and thirty hours
before we sight our objective, which is several hundred thousand miles
from Satellite Belt K. This objective is what is known as a minor
galaxy, but that's only a general term used to describe anything from a
gas cloud to semi-solid spheres or a disc-shaped constellation. An
example of a galaxy is what is known to Earth-people as the Milky Way.
This is a group of insignificant satellites formed around a minor star.
These small cool spheres of compacted star dust swing in a steady orbit
around their original solar being. They are locked in position by an
eternal balance between their centrifugal force and their sun's
attraction. Millions of years ago the Earth might have been one of
these, and it's the never-ending quest of space scientists to discover
new worlds in the making.'