at the ship. Repairs begin. Sort of]]
* [[0029|The road trip to the abandoned colony ship gets underway]]
* [[0044|Asteroids... nd other close encounters]]
* [[0060|Arrival at the abandoned colony ship]]
* [[0066|AIEEE! Radiation!]]
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* [[2637|Hang on, There's someone at the door]]
* [[2649|Pizza, we have liftoff]]... t's most basic level]]
* [[3180|You always lose theones you hate]]
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e hosts. It goes from birds to snails to fish and then back to birds. It sterilizes one of its hosts and mind controls another. It's a ri... t of her book, shredded it, burned it, and tossed the ashes into a cyclone.
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[[en... my and show themselves" (Lafferty, K. D. (1999). "The evolution of trophic transmission.") than uninfected ones. This behaviour increases their likelihood of being caught and eaten by birds by more than 30 times.
where, or nobody cares about time at all, because there are computers and it's their task to coordinate and bringthe different "intelligences" into accord with ea... tes or hundreds of thousands(nbsp)- approximately one "time of day" will correspond to approximately the same hour. It's doubtful that this system would work well in non-standard conditions, such as the planet of the three suns from the Black Pitch of the Chronicles of Riddick, but... For the ships adopt
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Typically, symmetric knot... running free when wet and under wind-load, but prone to self-unraveling if subjected to vibration or varying load, or loading other than on-the-bight. The Square knot is quite symm... eet-bend, etc) tend to have a strong asymmetry to them, and self-lock under load. The 'best' ones can be untied easily with correct manipulation of parts of the knot that are not in the direct load path (the bowline is typically released by pushing one of the loops 90 degrees to it's preferred orienta
distinguish between the peeps of mice) (nbsp)-for the same reason people with compensated hearing in one ear can hear a dog whistle at much greater distan... r>Robot Spike]])\\
Robot, you're not quite right. The upper limit of hearing is determined by the geometry and structure of the inner ear, not the distance between the ears. Or at least provide a link
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The proton-boron cycle is one possible promising fusion cycle for future generations of reactors. The reaction of one proton and one boron-11 nucleus produces three alpha particles a... , easily trapped charged particles as products of the reaction would allow the creation of a reactor wi
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Just a reminder, Mr. Rybert is sick of answeringthe phone. It's Max Post calling him. He's holding the tablet Florence left in his office in the 2080s. And the anonymous interference(nbsp)-we have to assume he's talking about the sabotage of the power plant in the 2030s. ([[user
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[rai]You are the walking embodiment of a turing test.
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[[enw>Turing test]](nbsp)– a blind test of whether the interlocutor is a human or a machine, carried out... ed her out of bed with his voice while she was on the phone in the last stripes. It's more like she's just imitating his voice in these situations.
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[edge]Arrgh! Show some caution! One does not shake the box containing the sticky notes of doom!
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bluetooth? If there are bluetooth devices, why not specify them? Is wordplay worth such a sloppy translation?\\
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[flo]Everyone here is wearing glasses. Is that something I should be doing?
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It's not the mirror ones. Although, as far as I know, this only applies to gorillas. The male gorilla is provoked by direct eye contact. It's a challenge to fight for pack leadership. The mirror also counts as an outsider. And cameras. :
ned out to be a military order from Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee. The find had a major impact on the course of a battle duringthe American Civil War.
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[rai]No phones or knocks on the door. No one expecting me to solve their problems. It's depressing to be woken in the middle of a nice dream.
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