Cochrane's eyes grew bright and hard. There were some three thousand million suns in the immediate locality of Earth--and more only a relatively short distance way--and it had not mattered to anybody. The situation did not seem likely to change. But--The moon-jeep climbed and climbed. It was a mile above the bay of the lava sea and the dust-heaps that were a city. It looked like ten miles, because of the curve of the horizon. The mountains all about looked like a madman's dream. "But he wants appreciation!" said Holden angrily. "People on Earth almost trampling on each other for lack of room, and people like me trying to keep them sane when they've every reason for despair--and he wants appreciation!" Cochrane grinned. He whistled softly. "Never underestimate a genius, Bill," he said kindly. "I refer modestly to myself. In two weeks your patient--I'll guarantee it--will be acclaimed the hope, the blessing, the greatest man in all the history of humanity! It'll be phoney, of course, but we'll have Marilyn Winters--Little Aphrodite herself--making passes at him in hopes of a publicity break! It's a natural!" "How'll you do it?" demanded Holden. The moon-jeep turned in its crazy, bumping progress. A flat area had been blasted in rock which had been unchanged since the beginning of time. Here there was a human structure. Typically, it was a dust-heap leaning against a cliff. There was an airlock and another jeep waited outside, and there were eccentric metal devices on the flat space, shielded from direct sunshine and with cables running to them from the airlock door. "How?" repeated Cochrane. "I'll get the details here. Let's go! How do we manage?" It was a matter, he discovered, of vacuum-suits, and they were tricky to get into and felt horrible when one was in. Struggling, Cochrane thought to say: "You can wait here in the jeep, Babs--" But she was already climbing into a suit very much oversized for her, with the look of high excitement that Cochrane had forgotten anybody could wear. They got out of a tiny airlock that held just one person at a time. They started for the laboratory. And suddenly Cochrane saw Babs staring upward through the dark, almost-opaque glass that a space-suit-helmet needs in the moon's daytime if its occupant isn't to be fried by sunlight. Cochrane automatically glanced up too. He saw Earth. It hung almost in mid-sky. It was huge. It was gigantic. It was colossal. It was four times the diameter of the moon as seen from Earth, and it covered sixteen times as much of the sky. Its continents were plain to see, and its seas, and the ice-caps at its poles gleamed whitely, and over all of it there was a faintly bluish haze which was like a glamour; a fey and eerie veiling which made Earth a sight to draw at one's heart-strings. Behind it and all about it there was the background of space, so thickly jeweled with stars that there seemed no room for another tiny gem.