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You could probably get me thrown into solitary confinement in a maximum security prison.’ ‘Only if you know at least ten words of Arabic.’
She said, ‘You know what they say the modern version of Pascal’s Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.
his comrades-in-genocide with more salubrious addresses were all still at large: doing lecture tours, running think tanks, lobbying for the Nobel peace prize.
A public school education did have one great advantage: however miserable you were afterwards, you could always take comfort in the knowledge that life would never be quite as bad again.
Stellar evolution and cosmic entropy might or might not prove insurmountable, but there’d be aeons to confront those challenges.
He asked the map, ‘Are there two outposts of the Amalgam lying on a straight line that intersects the beam?’ The map replied in a tone of mild incredulity. ‘No.’
‘There’s more to life than mathematics,’ Joan said. ‘But not much more.’
The increase in entropy that the dilution entailed allowed enzymes in the sap to drive an endothermic reaction, absorbing heat from the ground while synthesising sugars from dissolved carbon dioxide.
