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'A Sign in Space' Gives Practice In Decoding ET Messages
'... it will be easy to form an alphabet which shall enable us to converse with the inhabitants of the moon.' - Jules Verne, 1867. (re: Jules Verne)

Melting Permafrost Endangers Infrastructure
'From the tower's huge octagonal base radiate wide silvery strips...' - Robert Silverberg, 1970. (re: Robert Silverberg)

EELS Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor For Enceladus
'It was about five feet long... a black bullet head and red camera eyes.' - Susan Brownstone, 2012. (re: Susan Brownstone)

Lazy Lawyer's Trust In ChatGPT Misplaced
'The Law Society has strict rules on the use of pseudo-intelligent software...' - Greg Egan, 1991. (re: Greg Egan)

Paradromics Implant FDA 'Breakthrough Device'
'I used my implant to tell MILLIE what we wanted...' - Pournelle and Niven, 1981. (re: Pournelle and Niven)

Mice, At Least, Can Sober Up Quickly
'Then draw some aldodote-vitamin pills from the medic.' - H. Beam Piper, 1962. (re: H. Beam Piper)

Is It Time For Lunar Farside Telescopes?
'Mount Ambarzumian Observatory, on Farside.' - Poul Anderson, 1958. (re: Poul Anderson)

Spaceflight Vertigo Solved By NASA Releasing The Kraken
"I threw up in my helmet." (re: Various)

TM-62 Loitering Ground Landmine
Runaway movie comes to life! (re: Michael Crichton)

Helpful Robots In Science Fiction
'If you douse me again... I'm donating you to a city college.' - Iron Man, 2008. (re: Marvel)

Lunar Pogo Stick - Retro Technovelgy From 1968
'Lucky touched the leap knob...' - Isaac Asimov, 1954. (re: Isaac Asimov)

MIT And Rice Create Blade Runner Photo Analysis
Rick Deckard, your photo analysis is ready. (re: Ridley Scott)

SayCan with PaLM - Google's Robot Helper
The older I get, the more interested I am in helpful robots. (re: Various)

Real-Life Mind-Reading With MRI
'So you see, you can hide nothing from me. I am about to know you better than anyone has ever known you.' - Daniel Suarez, 2009. (re: Daniel Suarez)

Whisper Aero Ultraquiet Electric Aviation
'A white electric plane approached at great speed...' - Charles Cloukey, 1930. (re: Charles Cloukey)

Maybe We Should Harvest Saturn's Rings While We Still Can
'One infuriated astronomer had been euthanized for burning the chairman of the board.' - Alfred Bester, 1974. (re: Alfred Bester)

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