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:Ponytail: Take ''that'', ''Dawn'' team.
 
:Ponytail: Take ''that'', ''Dawn'' team.
  
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:[In the next four frames, we see photos, entirely black except for a circle in the middle. The circle is initially small, indistinct and appears in shades of grey. Successive circles are larger showing more color and shade variation. In the last, we see a blurry but recognizable outline of Africa, the Middle East and part of Western Asia, along with some clouds. The lighting pattern suggests that it is daytime in Africa, sometime in the northern summer.]
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:<nowiki>[</nowiki>In the next four frames, we see photos, entirely black except for a circle in the middle. The circle is initially small, indistinct and appears in shades of grey; the successive circles are larger showing more color and shade variation. In the last, we see a blurry but recognizable outline of Africa, the Middle East and part of Western Asia, along with some clouds. The lighting pattern suggests that it is daytime in Africa, sometime in the northern summer.<nowiki>]</nowiki>
  
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:[A close-up of the two at the console.]
 
 
:Cueball: OK, who did the calculations for the Jupiter slingshot maneuver?
 
:Cueball: OK, who did the calculations for the Jupiter slingshot maneuver?
 
:Ponytail: (facing away from the computer console) Dammit, Steve...
 
:Ponytail: (facing away from the computer console) Dammit, Steve...

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