Then they dissolve into nothing, only to form as if by stealth on a different horizon, dancing across the sky in the shape of a sea horse or crescent moon.

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Even the wealthiest cannot land a sea plane on the waters of Sun Moon Lake.

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I've got the sun, got the moon, got the deep blue sea.

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How much cheaper and easier (if less dramatic) it would have been if Mr Armstrong and Mr Aldrin could simply have stepped into a lift car in space, pressed M for moon, and descended in tranquillity to the sea of that name.

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Because, apparently, the gravitational pull of the moon does not only tug the waters of the sea and make the tides, it tugs up the sap.

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The moon made a last dash, traversed the curved grillework of the bridge, tipped toward the sea, crashed into the water like a brick, and sank, sending thousands of little bubbles to the surface.

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