Aurora
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Read between May 7 - May 12, 2024
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since they put us in this can, it’s been a case of get everything right or else everyone is dead. They did that to us!”
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gamified;
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Only with a test to destruction can you find the outer limits of a system’s strength.
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the Klein scale.
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tidally locked
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alluvial floodplain
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tidal flexing.
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abiologic explanation
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Hvalsey,
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fractal nautiloid motions
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lemniscate
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“I’m going to be taller when this is over!”
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vistas
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Gantt programs
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What a relief to have relief at hand, after so many years of interstellar isolation!
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This was the comfort Devi had never had.
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“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego”—an
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ehukai
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“It’s too bad. It really is a very pretty world.”
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Who were they, that they were so discontent?
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supraorganism
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M stars,
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cryptoendolith,
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cafés
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Duty first.
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Hohmann path
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picometer
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But how long would it take to terraform Iris?
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“So that maybe,” Freya kept saying, “we need to go back home.”
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supraorganism
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every path leads to misfortune.
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Fire anywhere in the ship is extremely dangerous to all.
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A great noise and smoke filled both rings, and the spine too.
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Kolmogorov complexity
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social comity
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recursive analysis,
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indeed Aram’s head was red all over as his anger sent an excess of blood to it.
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shield fields
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fospropofol,
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some genes are activated by experiences,
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justified moral actors,
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Fassnacht,
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The only problem comes from people trying to impose their will on other people!”
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counterprogram
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halting problem.
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The rule of law can be a powerful force in human affairs.
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servile will.
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semantic Ouroboros.
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clinamen,
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What is this thing called love? A song by composer Cole Porter, twentieth-century American.