"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when it is quite clearly Ocean."  – Arthur C. Clarke  How right he was – an ocean world, an orb of light in a sea of darkness. As if here is a beacon to hold the shadows at bay in our little corner of the Spiral Arm. The Titania of planets, overflowing with life, the figment of a mid-summer night’s dream. Rotund and majestic. Rolling through its orbit with all the gravitas of an Easter Island monument, its winward countenance immu