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quoted Blue light by Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley: Blue light (1998)

Blue Light is a science fiction novel by American writer Walter Mosley, published in 1998 …

But I was also a sleeping streak of blue light, scant seconds in length, jarred to consciousness after an age of silence... ... that needle of light, no wider than a meteorite, traveled forth.

— Blue light by  (Page 1)

Errr... How big... "Scant seconds" what's that? 3 seconds? Or, nearly 900,000km long...

"No wider than a meteorite" - according to NASA that's typically between a pebble and a fist... Shall we call it 3cm by 2cm in cross section?

So that's a volume of... 540,000,000 litres - that's um... 216 olympic swimming pools.

Right...