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Keeping information from the director of the NRO was like keeping Vatican secrets from the Pope.
They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then go back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.’
‘Panspermia is the theory that life was seeded here from another planet.’
that all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how it comes out.
When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.
the throngs of entrepreneurs rushing into space will not be rocket scientists. They will be entrepreneurs with deep pockets and shallow minds.’
‘Polar bears actually give the Arctic its name. Arktos is Greek for bear.’ Terrific. Rachel gazed nervously into the dark. ‘Antarctica has no polar bears,’ Tolland said. ‘So they call it Anti-arktos.’
Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.
‘Sometimes all it takes to unravel something is a single strand.
