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  1. "I don't know how things are where you come from, but around here you're going to find that all the laboratories come with a shrine to the God of Science."

    (Whose traditional invocation is "Let me have the clarity to see things as they are.")

    #eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

  2. "One day, you must explain to me exactly how closing to meleé is 'brutish and uncouth', while raining enough razor-sharp shards of cubic gauche nitrogen from the sky to blot out the sun is the quintessence of military elegance."

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  3. Today in 'verse history, the launch of the inevitable Admiralty Intelligence prowler

    CS _'); DROP TABLE contacts; --_

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  4. At one point in the development of organic/biotech computing devices, it was necessary to provide indicators of their internal state for their operators.

    The resulting bioluminescent demi-fungus was named, inevitably, "blinkenlichen".

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  5. As I migrate more posts on 'verse computing, I observe:

    Those people with buttsticks about "byte" and "nybble" being too silly are going to have to continue to suffer post-contact through "playte", "dynner", "feyst", and "banquyt".

    (Industry-standard word lengths in the seventh millennium are banquyts. Conveniently, this means that IIP addresses are still quadwords.)

    #eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing