the solar neighborhood

 re: on the matter of scale

in common time

     presently, a variety of durations dependent upon each endeavor (eg. space probe, rover, satellite)

     >>>>>

in spatial extents

    determining the perimeter or outer limits for the advent of built formulations

     "near earth :: space :: deep space".    (from ION lecture)

    setting spatial limits with boundary objects and geodetic bounds (projective through actualization)

  > The Inner Solar System:-

  To not exit out of projective cast of the possible, the cast forwarded by projection for a realistic span of time.

( > Then within the larger zone traversed by far-travelling probes)

Etienne Boulle: The encapsulation of a sphere of immensity, that direction of Boulle's.  To draw a boundary, to ascribe containment, to sense possession as this grand space possesses oneself.  Those stars, ever so far away, in immeasurable distances, in undecipherable distances, in an unknown relativity.  All those relativities of distances - which ones closer, which ones further?  A field is but an image, there were before instrumentation no knowables in that matrix of stars.  How arranged?  How set?  Then, finally, how in motion?  To ask, where are we, we only know - this, here, and no more.  Some say, we are in the midst of nothing, slyly and coyly hiding that he knew of the unknown, and what is more, what is unknowable.  Have we not gone a distance - a distance in time, a distance in civilization's make?  This, here - this is here where we find ourselves with the first clue of knowing a bit, not even a byte, but a quantum of a bit, of where we are situated in the midst of these so many the true manifold and the true immensities.  We find that it is not nothing at all, but a great grandeur composed of a true multitude, to say, a virtual infinitude of stars and planets and beings and objects - how we did begin to ascribe the boundaries in first saying such is a solid...

To soar or stand still: to stand, to elevate - lift.  Where was the center - where I am, where we are, where the Earth is.  Revolution.  This is one's center, the center of Earth's system is the sun - helio.  For five more centuries it did not matter where the system was, and still, we remained bound to the Earth.  But before or just after four centuries of the five passed - Revolution, again.

The Expansion.  The Origin.  The relativistic nature of moving bodies.  Time itself came into the fold - dimensionality understood as constructed, a reduction for comprehension, yet.  

The task to construct has become real in the physical sense.  Beyond but including the mind, what is known as mass and matter itself complexifies and becomes malleable into forms that could be placed into trajectories.  Ever so precisely could these objects be thrown into the unknown, previously unknown?  Knowable by our own tracks space has become...