Darren New wrote:

> I saw an interesting lecture (Carl Sagan, I think?) who pointed out that 
> if we were the size of insects, we'd barely notice gravity and we'd be 
> much more concerned about surface tension, for example.

Or if we were radically larger/smaller, the concept of a "fixed point in 
space" would seem incongruous.

(On a large scale, planets, stars and galaxies wander round all over the 
place Similarly on a sufficiently small scale.)

Why no SciFi writers have caught on to this idea I don't know...

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