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I’m used to taking sacred things and turning them ordinary.
and the clash of a range of ideas.
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
- Lady Bird Johnson.
“So then, to you, is weapons research motivated by beauty, or by functionality?”
?Por los no dos?
The lighthouse is always there, but you only see it when it’s lit.
The direction of a man or woman’s life might be determined by the era they found themselves in. It’s impossible for someone to distance themselves very far from the times they live in.
He has leukemia. It’s incurable. I suspect it’s the result of long-term emotional stress.”
Uh, more like long-term exposure to radiation. I'm worried about Chen's remark about his hair thinning & then growing back. He attributed it to stress - but he also got away from radioactive sites.
“A skynet!”
No!
SKYNET
Stop!
“We also considered using fixed-wing aircraft, which would make parachuting out in the event of an accident somewhat easier compared to a helicopter,
The solution: The Kamov KA-50. The first helicopter developed with an ejection seat.
The blasts of its shells were painfully loud, and though I wanted to cover my ears, when I saw Lin Yun and the officers joking beside me, as if the loud noise didn’t even exist, I was too embarrassed to do so.
Ear protection is so ridiculously important.
Legalize silencers.
Wear ear protection often. Anything over 80 db, including kitchen appliances, should require ear protection.
“You want to poke a thunderball with a long pole? Are you insane, Major?” Captain Zheng said loudly.
“There’s lots you haven’t imagined, Dr. Chen. You can’t imagine the sheer oddity of nature,” Ding Yi said, cutting me off.
Ding Yi is an ass. I don't like him.
It was Ding Yi.
“That’s just how you were, Xiao Yun. Once you got something in your sights, you didn’t care about anything else.”
I think Yun is on the neurodivergent spectrum.
When summer was over, I no longer covered my ears for hand grenade explosions or recoilless rifles.”
Wear ear protection!!!
This can only mean that there was another, nonhuman, observer.”
Sophons?
Maybe bugs? Microbes?
