FastSaying
Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.
Gregory Benford
Born
Came
Collision
Colossal
Condensed
Crunch
Earth
Harbor
Life
Moon
Our
Rocks
Satellite
Small
Too
World
Related Quotes
The moon's closeness is a huge advantage: To make it habitable, we would first have to bombard it with water-ice comets, a tricky endeavor best attempted with the many resources waiting on and near Earth.
— Gregory Benford
Advantage
Attempted
Best
Terraforming our moon will take many decades and vast abilities. Before we can begin, we'll have to master the resources of our solar system - especially transporting raw masses over interplanetary distances.
— Gregory Benford
Ability
Before
Begin
This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from.
— Gregory Benford
1940s
Age
Art
Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.
— Gregory Benford
Answer
Approach
Continuing
Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.
— Gregory Benford
America
Around
Columns