Passengers on ocean liners are often depicted facing calamitous events, from capsizing ships to bomb threats; these vessels serve as dramatic backdrops for classic scenarios in cinema.
He faced a huge parking lot, lined with police cars and surrounded by an imposing fence. There were a few police buses, too... looking like school buses except they were white instead of yellow and the windows were covered with metal grates.
Even across vast differences in circumstances — like being deep in a gravitational well or zipping through space at substantial fractions of the speed of light — time's ticks remain equivalently steadfast for every observer.
