On Earth one of the things that a large proportion of the locals is most proud of is this wonderful economic system which, with a sureness and certainty so comprehensive one could almost imagine the process bears some relation to their limited and limiting notions of either thermodynamics or God, all food, comfort, energy, shelter, space, fuel and sustenance gravitates naturally and easily away from those who need it most and towards those who need it least. Indeed, those on the receiving end of such largesse are often harmed unto death by its arrival, though the effects may take years and generations to manifest themselves.
Iain M. BanksTag: energy food economics space comfort shelter sustenance fuel limited limiting
DETOX your mind, body, AND your contact list.
SupaNova SlomTag: humor motivational wisdom life inspirational friends happiness love family social peace home mind joy relationships balance cleanliness spirit space meditation body transformation teens wellness humor-inspirational healthy cleaning being contact cleansing detox healthy-lifestyle
Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.
David BrinTag: life simile death space irony
I didn't know someone could love me like this," she said. "Could love me and love me and love me without...needing space."
Lincoln wasn't asleep. He rolled on top of her.
"There's no air in space," he said.
Tag: distance relationships space
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.
Thomas MannTag: freedom time mind forgetfulness liberation space body attachment constraints lethe unattached
The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: space cosmos meteors population-density
We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership (which happens to be one-fifth the mass of the Moon), thus disarming its protective force field. I don’t know about you, but back in 1996 I had trouble just uploading files to other computers within my own department, especially when the operating systems were different. There is only one solution: the entire defense system for the alien mothership must have been powered by the same release of Apple Computer’s system software as the laptop computer that delivered the virus.
Neil deGrasse TysonTag: apple computers funny aliens space software
We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me.
Patrick NessTag: world space place spackle
To express open creativity, you first need to create your own space of seclusion.
Anthony LiccioneTag: expression creativity space seclusion
There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail. It was the same thing whether the lights belonged to a caravel battling the swell on a stormy horizon or a diamond-hulled starship which had just sliced its way through interstellar space.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: human space achievement existential ships
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