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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete read more

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's read more

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of
the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies read more

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of
the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded
yellow sun.

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on read more

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.