# Someday the Gravity Well We Escape Will Be the Sun by David Dalrymple > “But someday, "escaping the gravity well" will mean not that of Earth, but that of our star, and then humankind's ship will at last have...gone out.” > **— David Dalrymple**, *2009, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?”* ## Sources and Context - **Direct Edge response and surrounding essay:** [ESCAPING THE GRAVITY WELL](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10631) — the official response page preserves this exact, continuous passage and its surrounding argument. - **Complete local collection index:** [[research/Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation]] — retained source-first record for the response object and all canonical reminder links derived from it. - **Textual provenance note:** The compact three-dot construction appears on the official Edge response page and is retained verbatim. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|Never Going to Make It!]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Nolan's Odyssey]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Rotating Space Habitats|Rotating Space Habitats]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Rotating Space Habitats|Rotating Space Habitats]] - [[wiki/Deep Time|Deep Time]] - [[wiki/Cosmic View|Cosmic View]] - [[wiki/Species-Level Maturation|Species-Level Maturation]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “But someday, "escaping the gravity well" will mean not that of Earth, but that of our star, and then humankind's ship will at last have...gone out.” — David Dalrymple, 2009, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-david-dalrymple-escaping-the-suns-gravity-well ```