Fountains of Paradise# SciFiction - 星际浪子
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37 . The Billion-Ton Diamond
In the last seven years much had been done, yet there
was still so much to do. Mountains - or at least asteroids -
had been moved. Earth now possessed a second natural moon,
circling just above synchronous altitude. It was less than a
kilometre across, and was rapidly becoming smaller as it was
rifled of its carbon and other light elements. Whatever was
left - the core of iron, tailings and industrial slag -
would form the counterweight that would keep the To
In the last seven years much had been done, yet there
was still so much to do. Mountains - or at least asteroids -
had been moved. Earth now possessed a second natural moon,
circling just above synchronous altitude. It was less than a
kilometre across, and was rapidly becoming smaller as it was
rifled of its carbon and other light elements. Whatever was
left - the core of iron, tailings and industrial slag -
would form the counterweight that would keep the To