I am inside the bubble as it bounces along on the ripples and wavetops, stops, turns in a slow current, then gets caught again in the main stream and rushes on. It slides along a bankside, under a tree branch, over the lip of a small falls and down into the splash and spray at the bottom. It bounces around at the base of the falls then gets into the current again and moves downstream. I think, this is certainly a strong bubble to carry me through such a current. It has picked up speed again and tumbles over the edge of a great falls, falls, falls through the air and lands in the spray and foam at the bottom, still intact.
Anticipation rises as word spreads that they are about to announce the news.
Some lean back, smiling, and light cigars. Others preen, put on lipstick, brush their hair, adjust their ties, pull on their cuff links, blow their noses, a loud bellowing sound, then inspect their handkerchiefs. Possibly it will be photos from that distant galaxy, or of Jupiter, poor damaged Jupiter. Or news of that latest star cluster swirling at such a speed it must be a whirlpool to a black hole. Or someone made sense of the electromagnetic waves coming in from the distant planet around that third magnitude star.