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"We live on a world: small, immobile, vulnerable, and unprotected. But it will not be so forever."
~ Larry Niven  "The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live int eh cradle forever."
~Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
1899 "The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in."
~ Robert A Heinlein
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The Endless Frontier:
You see, I have this problem: about half of you who've bought this book already know far more about life in space than I can put into an introductory essay. Spirals:
There are always people who want to revise history. | |
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And with billions-piled-upon-billinos of us, there just isn't enough to go around. So "Use Less,""Think Small," and above all "Be Appropriate." Right? WRONG! There are aLso eight other planets, thirty-six moons, a million asteroids, a billion comets, an eternal energy source - and an infinite sea of space. It's raining soup Out There. Join bestselling author Jerry Pournelle and his colleagues in an exploration through fact and fiction of | |
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