Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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Uncertainty was one thing that neither scientists nor politicians could tolerate.
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Dr Bose had been born on Earth, and had not emigrated to Mars until he was thirty,
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Dr Thelma Price was familiar through her numerous television appearances, though she had first made her reputation fifty years ago during the archaeological explosion that had followed the draining of that vast marine museum, the Mediterranean. Dr Bose could still recall the excitement of that time, when the lost treasures of the Greeks, Romans and a dozen other civilizations were restored to the light of day.
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Conrad Taylor, the celebrated anthropologist, who had made his reputation by uniquely combining scholarship and eroticism in his study of puberty rites in late twentieth-century Beverley Hills.
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Among his minor accomplishments was a talent now rare, though many thought not rare enough – the art of whistling.
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Garbage disposal on Rama was very simple; everything was thrown into the Sea,
Mark Boyle
An approach which is often employed on this planet, too.