"Okay. So. The ship has no engine, we're not moving anywhere, and the ocean ends at the barrier, because this is as much a contained created space as any of the Captain's places that we've visited. The Tommy Bahama is infinite because none of this needs to conform to space-that-works-like-space. The ship's wake is there to create the illusion of motion, because ships are supposed to move. But there is no point in space we're getting closer to or father away from, strictly speaking."
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"Okay. So. The ship has no engine, we're not moving anywhere, and the ocean ends at the barrier, because this is as much a contained created space as any of the Captain's places that we've visited. The Tommy Bahama is infinite because none of this needs to conform to space-that-works-like-space. The ship's wake is there to create the illusion of motion, because ships are supposed to move. But there is no point in space we're getting closer to or father away from, strictly speaking."