They floated independently, the rim of each lens equipped with multiple ion thrusters that could precisely adjust the distance between them or change the orientation of the entire group.
“Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.”
― The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
― The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
“The best random keys are created by harnessing natural physical processes, such as radioactivity, which is known to exhibit truly random behavior. The”
― The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
― The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
“Brutus, a young man, over the fleet and those Gallic vessels which he had ordered to be furnished by the Pictones and the Santoni, and the other provinces which remained at peace; and commands him to proceed towards the Veneti, as soon as he could. He himself hastens thither with the land forces.”
― The Gallic Wars: The Commentaries of C. Julius Cæsar on his War in Gaul
― The Gallic Wars: The Commentaries of C. Julius Cæsar on his War in Gaul
“This means the last few years of hard-drive production—which, thanks to increasing size, represents the majority of global storage capacity—would just about fill an oil tanker. So, by that measure, the Internet is smaller than an oil tanker.”
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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