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I shook my head. "There'll be wars."
"Yes. There'll be wars. Fought for the same reason most wars in ancient times were fought for: food. They'd use religion or glory or whatever as an excuse, but it was always about food. Farmlands and people to work that land.”

“‘Intelligence evolves to gives us an advantage over the other animals on our planet. But evolution is lazy. Once a problem is solved, the trait stops evolving. So you and me, we're both just intelligent enough to be smarter than our planet's other animals.’”

“If this happened when Earth was in the Stone Age, we would have just died. And if it happened a thousand years from now, we'd probably work out how to deal with Astrophage without breaking a sweat. There is a fairly narrow band of technological advancement that would cause a species to send a ship to Tau Ceti to look for an-swers. Eridians and humans both fall into that band.”

I appreciate all the science explanations but it’s boring lol

“‘According to this international treaty, I am personally immune from prosecution for any crime anywhere on Earth…. I also have a preemptive pardon from the president of the United States for any and all crimes I’m accused of within US jurisdictions” okay GORL for so for real rn 😭 I can suspend my disbelief for a lot of things but this is so cringey lmao

Note to self: I like the first discovery of alien spaceships and the alien cylinder—has anyone else read alien/first contact books? What do you think? I think of Interstellar (alien are us from the future), Contact, and Arrival. Any books to recommend ? Maybe more serious than this one lol not a fan of the humor

38 - “All life needs is a chemical reaction that results in copies of the original catalyst. You don’t need water !”
50 - “Believe it or not, light has momentum. It exerts a force. If you were out in space and you turned on a flashlight, you'd get a teeny, tiny amount of thrust from it."