Pause in Conversation
Hayabusa's gravity assist is still ongoing.
Eeh, he's already returned back to Earth!
But Ōsumi-sempai...
Is that so . . .?
Same year, August 2nd
Do you remember where you're at?
Every day she travels 300,000 km farther from Earth
Though I can hear you.
Your voice is delayed.
Well, how is everything?
July, 2003
Ahah<big>♪</big>
It'll be rather noisy, right?
Heh.
Besides, I'll have 880,000 people as a family.
It amounts to a very wide dwelling, don't you think?
Although it's a 500m asteroid, it's just my size.
Yeah.
You'll be a permanent resident, right?
* A permanent resident of an asteroid<p>MINERVA-san will be dropped onto the asteroid and will research it as much as possible.</p><p>For MINERVA-san, this is a move with no return trip.</p>
* A very wide dwelling<p>In this manga, MINERVA-san is drawn rather largely for the reader's convenience, but she is in fact only 10 centimeters. To put her world in a human context, it would be about 7-8 kilometers.</p>
* 880,000 people as a family<p>A target marker with the signatures of 880,000 people also remains on the asteroid.</p>
* 300,000 km<p>The distance that light travels in one second.</p><p>So that means that every day, the time lag in communications between Hayabusa and Sagami-san is increased by two seconds (one second each way).</p>
* Your voice is delayed<p>This is the special talent of ventriloquist Tamaki Ikkoku.</p><p>He is an amazing ventriloquist, the first one in Japan to be able to pronounce phonemes which begin with "p". If you try actually pronouncing "pa, pi, pu, pe, po" without moving your mouth you will understand just how amazing he is.</p><p>He was a major sensation just before the launching of Hayabusa.</p>
Tamaki Ikkoku introduces himself saying, "I am the leader of the theater troupe 'Ikkoku-dou,' whose members are ventriloquist dummies."
* Oosumi-senpai<p>She is modeled on the satellite "Oosumi."</p><p>Launched on February 11th, 1970, Oosumi was the first Japanese satellite.</p><p>The purpose of the launch was to study satellite launch technologies and to perform engineering experiments about satellites.</p><p>Oosumi's activity lasted only a short 14-15 hours, but she continued in an elliptical orbit of the Earth.</p><p>Over the course of 33 years of orbiting the Earth, Oosumi's elevation gradually began decreasing, and on August 2nd, 2003, she entered the atmosphere and was destroyed.</p>
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