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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.
“Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.”
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“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
“It is a paradox that the more egalitarian society becomes, the more important an individual’s genes will be. Where opportunity is completely open – should a child’s background ever become entirely irrelevant in their attainment – innate advantages will still create division.”
― This Perfect Day
― This Perfect Day
“necessity is the mother of invention, then”
― 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
Kaan’s 2024 Year in Books
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