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