Project Hail Mary
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“According to this international treaty, I am personally immune from prosecution for any crime anywhere on Earth.
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LMAOOOOO
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Rocky speaks with musical chords.
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do his notes happen to fall along our western 12 tone scale? seems unlikely
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And as far as I can tell, he remembers everything I told him.
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omg toned languages must be interesting to him
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all I need to know is the volume of this water to know its mass and therefore the mass of the metal
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what about the mass of the pouch
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“Yes. Want want want.”
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crying
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That octave-drop…I think it’s emotion.
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COOL
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very very very
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why have very and triple words for emphasis
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Did you hear that global warming has been almost undone?”
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woahhhh
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“Humanity’s recklessness with our environment accidentally bought us an extra month of time by pre-heating the planet.”
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lol
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European languages didn’t even have a word for tornado until Spanish conquistadors saw them in North America. Now they’re happening in Italy, Spain, and Greece.”
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dammnnn
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“A nice blanket of greenhouse gases would buy us some time, right?
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lolllllll
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“Has to be, or you and I would not meet,”
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yeah its the plane shots diagram
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“You hear light, question?”
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I hate myself for thinking in hybrid units like that.
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actually so fucked up
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No matter how good they are at math, there are limits.
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who says
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“Good good good room!” he squeals. His voice is a full octave higher than normal.
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DAWHHHH
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That was an A-below-middle-C major fifth, followed by an E-flat octave, and then a G-minor seventh.
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no fucking way he can do that
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“Sle…ee…p…” he mumbles.
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how does that work
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SpaceX
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nah took me out
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A massive hole in the port side of the ship.
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hm! bad!
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trillions of horny little Astrophages,
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lol ew
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“You have entire world working for you,” she said. “Get pharma company to make me heroin.
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lmao
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I think animal intelligence, ultimately, has to be faster than gravity.”
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no fuck this theory hes wrong
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metal: Astrophage.”
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u cant put a colon in dialogue sorry
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Either he’s gifted, or all Eridians are like that.
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ive read this sentence 4 times
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I can tell it means trouble, because the word “TROUBLE” is in large type across the top.
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lol
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You don’t have a romantic partner in your life because that would mean you might suffer heartbreak.
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unearned detail but ok
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“You can’t do this!”
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this is a stupid twist. she's right!
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They have a copy of Wikipedia now.
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great sentence
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mitochondria—the powerhouse of the cell.
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lmao this is like the lick
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Iℓℓ
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fuck off how is he pronouncing that
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“Yeah, I know. That’s why I wanted to be the one to tell you.”
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i know it makes sense but i dont like that he talks more fluently now
An Earthlike organ keyboard sits in the center of my area,
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wonderful i was hoping for this