The Arrival, 55,500,000 B.C., Secrets of the Ancient World Quotes

“brew made from fermented barley,”
― M.G. Hawking, The Arrival, 55,500,000 B.C., Secrets of the Ancient World: 2022 Edition

“you”
― M.G. Hawking, The Arrival, 55,500,000 B.C., Secrets of the Ancient World: 2022 Edition

“So if these traces of our civilization are bound to be detectable millions of years in the future, might there be any similar Anthropocene-type “signals” existing right now in ancient rocks, just waiting to tell us of an advanced civilization that existed millions of years ago? Interestingly, the answer is a resounding yes.”
― M.G. Hawking, The Arrival, 55,500,000 B.C., Secrets of the Ancient World: 2022 Edition

“The Antarctic ice sheet had an average net gain of 101 billion tons of ice each year from 1992 to 2008 (112 billion tons of additional ice per year from 1992 to 2001, and 82 billion tons of additional ice per year between 2003 and 2008).”
― M.G. Hawking, The Arrival, 55,500,000 B.C., Secrets of the Ancient World: 2022 Edition

“Yet this current icy version of Antarctica turns out to be exceptional. For most of the past 135 million years the south pole was a subtropical paradise.”
― M.G. Hawking, The Arrival, 55,500,000 B.C., Secrets of the Ancient World: 2022 Edition

“complied”
― M.G. Hawking, The Arrival, 55,500,000 B.C., Secrets of the Ancient World: 2022 Edition

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― M.G. Hawking, The Arrival, 55,500,000 B.C., Secrets of the Ancient World: 2022 Edition

“The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.”
― M.G. Hawking, The Arrival, 55,500,000 B.C., Secrets of the Ancient World: 2022 Edition

“(300,000 kilometers per second),”
― M.G. Hawking, The Arrival, 55,500,000 B.C., Secrets of the Ancient World: 2022 Edition

“the word “observable” is key; the sphere limits what scientists can see, but not what is there.”
― M.G. Hawking, The Arrival, 55,500,000 B.C., Secrets of the Ancient World: 2022 Edition