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September 13, 2006
Wednesday
 
 
Samizdata quote of the day
Johnathan Pearce (London)  Science fiction • Slogans/quotations

"It had always bothered him to see waste; to see Gas Giant atmospheres not mined for their wealth in hydrogen; to see energy from stars spill into the void, without a Dyson Sphere to catch and use it; to see iron and copper and silicates scattered in a hundred million pebbles and asteroids, instead of a smelter or nanoassembly vat."

- The Golden Age, by John C. Wright, page 261.

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One day....
Seriously though, its where we belong.


Posted by mandrill at September 14, 2006 12:07 AM

Well it's certainly where we have to go in large numbers.
That the Sun will go out, is a certainty
and if we're still here - bickering
when it happens
Well that's it for the smartest species the earth ever produced. And all for what?
Arthur C Clarke is a crap writer, but a good ideas man.
His book, Childhood's End, touches on this theme of the end of the world and what's the point.
Preachy and didactic, but worth a skim through.


Posted by RAB at September 14, 2006 12:40 AM

Well, i ceratinly agree with this, this has to happen someday or the other.


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Posted by Dale Amon at September 16, 2006 06:31 PM
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