Who is Pete Pardo?
Pete Pardo – Senior Corporate Account Manager for Safari Books Online by day, Publisher for Sea of Tranquility by night. Pete is a long time progressive rock and metal enthusiast whose passion for the music brought him to SoT in late 1999.
What is the meaning of Sea of Tranquility?
The Sea of Tranquility is a dark spot located in the northern hemisphere of the Moon. The sea is not a body of water but a lower-altitude plain. As a result of earlier periods of lunar volcanism, it is filled with dark, solidified lava.
What is so special about the Sea of Tranquility?
The Sea of Tranquility is the landing site of Apollo 11, the mission that gave mankind its first ever walk on the Moon.
What created the Sea of Tranquility?
This basin is thought to have been formed as a result of a very large impact in the Moon’s early history, likely more than 3.9 billion years ago. The crater was then flooded with mare basalts, making it appear dark when viewed from Earth, and making it smooth and relatively flat, as seen in LOLA data.
Is Sea of Tranquility sad?
“Sea of Tranquility” is mind-bending without being confusing and somber without being sad. It is true to life, yet hopeful. For a book about time travel and moon colonies, it feels an awful lot like reality.
Is there really a silent sea in the Moon?
The Silent Sea is a term 17th-century astronomers used to refer to the dark spots on the Moon, which scientists now recognize as craters known as “maria.”
Is Sea of Tranquility a romance?
The Sea of Tranquility is a slow-building, character-driven romance about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances.
Do I need to read Station Eleven before Sea of Tranquility?
While you don’t have to have read Station Eleven and/or The Glass Hotel to read Sea of Tranquility, I think that most of my enjoyment came from the themes and plot that are a continuation of TGH especially.
Is lunar water drinkable?
You have to take the soil, or ice deposits, and have to process it to get water. You have to purify it so you can drink it. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be safe to drink. Lunar regolith [lunar soil] are pretty nasty little particles, and they can cause a lot of respiratory issues.
Why is it called silent sea?
It premiered on Netflix on December 24, 2021. The title The Silent Sea comes from the Sea of Tranquility on the moon; the story follows a crewed mission to retrieve samples from a lunar research base.
Are The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility connected?
Sea of Tranquility isn’t a sequel, but you will have a much richer and more enjoyable reading experience if you read The Glass Hotel first.
Is Sea of Tranquility a simulation?
A life lived in a simulation is still a life.” The characters in “Sea of Tranquility” live and die and love and mourn, they ponder and care, they think beautiful and mundane things. The 225 pages you, the reader, just read are also a simulation of sorts, a world Mandel created.
Is there gold on moon?
Golden Opportunity on the Moon
The moon isn’t so barren after all. A 2009 NASA mission—in which a rocket slammed into the moon and a second spacecraft studied the blast—revealed that the lunar surface contains an array of compounds, including gold, silver, and mercury, according to PBS.
Who owns the Moon?
The short answer is that no one owns the Moon. That’s because of a piece of international law. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967, put forward by the United Nations, says that space belongs to no one country.
Is The Silent Sea romantic?
Unlike most every other Seoul soap opera, there’s not a single romantic plotline or unresolved sexual tension anywhere. It’s modern and asexual.
Is The Silent Sea horror?
‘The Silent Sea’ Finds a New Horror on the Moon in Netflix Space Drama.
Do you need to read Station Eleven before Sea of Tranquility?
Should I read The Glass Hotel before Sea of Tranquility?
That said, you don’t have to have read The Glass Hotel to enjoy Sea of Tranquility, though it might help to be familiar with Mandel’s work first.
Are station eleven and The Glass Hotel connected?
John Mandel’s “The Glass Hotel,” which is a bit of an anthology from the world of “Station Eleven”: The character of Miranda is in that book as well. “We thought what would happen if we sort of expanded her role,” he says.
Which planet is rich in gold?
Well, at current market prices, 16 Psyche contain enough gold and other precious metals to be worth roughly $700 quintillion, which is enough to give every single human being on this planet a private fortune of nearly a hundred billion bucks.
What is diamond planet?
Award-winning space photos reveal glory of the cosmos
This latest study builds on previous investigations into planets that may be full of diamonds. NASA has taken a closer look at 55 Cancri e, an exoplanet that earned the nickname “diamond planet” due to research that suggests it has a carbon-rich composition.
Can you legally buy land on the moon?
Short answer: you can’t. No one can. The relevant provision of the OST is Article II which states: “Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.”
Who bought land on Mars?
Well, a man in West Bengal claims to have bought one-acre land on the red planet and he also has a ‘deed’ showing the purchase. Shaunak Das states that he has purchased land on Mars from an American website. He also claims that he has purchased a one-acre area of land on Mars.
Why do they see starfish in silent sea?
Song believed that lunar water multiplied inside a host’s body. It drowned their internal organs, leading to fatal death. It also affected the host mentally, as the host often saw starfish around them and felt drowning in the sea, which suffocated their will to live.
What is the disease in The Silent Sea?
Along the way, there is a search for a mythical Chinese Admiral’s Chinese treasure ship called the “Silent Sea”. That ship had to be scuttled along with its crew due to a prion disease, caught by the crew when they traded for meat from the native cannibals.