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'it is better to remain silent and be thought an idiot, than to speak and remove all doubt'.”
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That was a problem with our fancy displays; they made you unconsciously assume the data was all in real-time and it wasn't. In space combat, almost everything had a time lag of at least several seconds.
I wish that all authors understood this!
If you were a superhero, you would be No Patience Man. You'd be the guy who thinks, if the instructions say to bake a cake at 300 degrees for thirty minutes, you can instead bake it at 1800 degrees for five minutes." "You can't?"
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helicopters don't use aerodynamics to fly, they just beat the air into submission.
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the goggles were clear and they worked like any plastic safety goggles on Earth, except these could stop a rifle bullet, and they repelled water, dust and dirt using magnets or force fields or some super high tech thing like that. Press a button on the left side of the goggles, and the inside of the lenses displayed whatever image you commanded from your zPhone. You could select a night vision mode that displayed an enhanced view from the tiny cameras at each corner of the goggles, or you could pull up a map, data, or the view from someone else's goggles. That feature was very helpful to
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The radar even works pretty good underwater,
Radar dloes NOT work through water.
Don’t worry, I am very confident. Fairly confident. Somewhat confident. Ok, yes, I’m making this shit up as I go, all right? Give me a freakin' break.
Been there, done that...
brevity is the soul of wit." "And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief,"
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