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until you understand the motivation behind it.
Haha - like the “sun” ?
Maybe, like most secretive people, she assumed I was keeping important secrets of my own.
a crime scene, a failed roadside attack on a bank truck that had killed a carful of Canadian tourists.
A datapoint of societal collapse.
Haha
he hates the idea of seeding the galaxy with replicators, not because it’s too ambitious but because it’s bad for business.
A slingshot and a test tube is all it really takes.”
the window is closing. The human window. Our time on Earth. The Earth’s time in the universe. It’s just about over.
We have, I think, just one more realistic opportunity to understand what it means—what it meant—to have built a human civilization.”
Preston Lomax,
the security clones
Haha simile metaphor
Haha
Haha
to us, Tyler, you’re the Old Ones. The elder species, the ancient planet.
it would be gratifying to see the replicators launched.”
they’ll believe the challenge came from Earth, not Mars.”
an honest book is almost as good as a friend.”
“When I read,” he said to me, “I hear the echo of those voices.”
“Bottom line, it’s unprecedented, it’s untested, and it embraces a technology we don’t understand or control.”
Simile
Why should Jason’s health, mental or physical, affect the merits of the Martian program? The problem is, Jason doesn’t have a successor to run Perihelion, which is perhaps the most *unrealistic* plot point in the novel. Question
Haha - Molly
I wish you well but I don’t really give a shit about your medical problems.
Haha - good point. He would have had a medical team all around up him as much as the others for debriefing. Another unrealistic point.
Chilling? Or Haha? Question.
von Neumann machines—
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