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The story of the opera relates how an exceptionally beautiful moon goddess came to Earth and was confronted with human emotions when she falls in love with an Emperor before returning to the Moon. In the finale, the Moon princess, accompanied by Moon gods, departs from her cosmic abode to return to Earth.
Kiddy Grade, anime series, in which a space elevator combined with an Orbital ring structure is used on most populated planets. In Kurau: Phantom Memory, space elevators are used as spaceports for easier traveling between the Earth and a full colonized Moon. Legend of the Galactic Heroes anime series depicts a space elevator on the planet Phezzan.
The story takes place in ancient Babylon, but set in a world where ancient Hebrew cosmology is accurate: the Earth is flat and covered by a celestial vault, harboring the Sun and the Moon in the expanse within. Humanity has been working for centuries on a huge tower to reach the vault and enter Yahweh's domain. Hillalum, the protagonist, is ...
The Fountains of Paradise is a 1979 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.Set in the 22nd century, it describes the construction of a space elevator.This "orbital tower" is a giant structure rising from the ground and linking with a satellite in geostationary orbit at the height of approximately 36,000 kilometres (approx. 22,300 miles).
Hammer and feather drop on the Moon by astronaut David Scott, Apollo 15 (1.38 MB, ogg/Theora format) Astronaut David Scott performed a version of the experiment on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, dropping a feather and a hammer from his hands. Because of the negligible lunar atmosphere, there was no drag on the feather, which ...
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The story follows Xiao Yiqing (), the master of the Listening Snow Tower and Shu Jingrong (Yuan Bingyan), daughter of the Blood Demon.In jianghu, Moon Sect strikes as a terrifying force and its poisonous influence grew under the command of Hua Lian (Jessica Hsuan), sect leader of Moon Sect. Bai Di (He Zhonghua), Xue Gu (Wang Jiusheng) and 'Blood Demon' Shu Xuewei (Lu Fangsheng), three powerful ...
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