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The ship had been designed when the dangers of space were all about radiation and air supply, not intentional violence.
Something like that goes from a few pissed-off locals to a meat grinder without much time in between.
Some secrets stayed secrets because nobody knew them. Some because nobody told.
mnemonic
Good word as distinct from acronym
epigram
Good word
“A person can fail the people they love just by being who they are. I’m who I am, and it wasn’t what my wife wanted me to be, and somethin’ had to break.
“The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster,” she said. It was a truism of ecological biologists, and she said it the way a religious person might pray. To make sense of what she saw. To comfort herself. To give the world some sense of purpose or meaning. Species rose in an environment, and that environment changed. It was the nature of the universe, as true here as it had been on Earth.
labile.
Good word
Maudlin.
Good word
quashed
Good word
That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed.
