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Zai Pits (West Sahel) And Dew Collectors (Dune)
'Each is planted most tenderly in its own little pit.' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert)

Delivery Robots Being Bullied, Robbed
'Robots have worse problems than anybody.' (A Present for Pat) - Philip K. Dick, 1955. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Unitree H1 General-Purpose Humanoid Robot
'Just what did I want Flexible Frank to do?' - Robert Heinlein, 1956. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Solar X-Flares Disrupt North American Radio And Navigation
'A true cosmic storm!' - Jack Williamson, 1939. (re: Jack Williamson)

Restructure An Asteroid, Spin It, Get A 'Space Habitat' With Gravity?
'When the colony was established, the whole interior was carved out with atomic burners...' - John Campbell, 1932. (re: John Campbell)

Teslas Have Minds, Says Elon Musk
'The machine scans the patterns of the mind; ...Impress these same waves on a robot computer.' - Frederik Pohl, 1955. (re: Frederik Pohl)

Quadruple-Star System Now Forming
'... ravished with joy, I gazed at the giant suns, Arcturus and Betelguese, and the red Antares, and at systems of double and triple and quadruple suns...' - Stanton Coblentz, 1934. (re: Stanton Coblentz)

Are You Ready To Zoom With Dr. ChatGPT?
'Skarwold pushed a switch and Katz’s autodoc sprayed sedative into his lungs.' - Larry Niven, 1965. (re: )

Away Rude Mechanicals! I Want Self-Sensing Variable-Stiffness Artificial Muscles.
'... it is remarkable that the long leverages of their machines are in most cases actuated by a sort of sham musculature.' - HG Wells, 1898. (re: HG Wells)

Machete-Wielding Philodendron Isn't Going To Take It Anymore
'The tree ended its wild larruping, stood like a dreaming giant liable to wake into frenzy at any moment.' - Eric Frank Russell, 1943. (re: Eric Frank Russell)

HOVER Scorpion Speeder Bike!
'I see them! Wait, Leia!' - George Lucas, 1983. (re: George Lucas)

Nuclear Rockets To Fly In Space!
'... the only type of engine which could possibly transport a heavy machine from our earth to some planet, would have to be the atomic-energy engine.' - (re: Robert Heinlein)

Privatized Moon Mining Appeals To Entrepreneurs
'The engineer had judged correctly for the ground on which the space ship had landed consisted of ice...' - Max Valier, 1931. (re: Max Valier)

Do Aliens Have A 'Non-Interference' Prime Directive?
'... it was against the law for our people to visit Earth.' - George Parsons Lathrup, 1897. (re: George Parsons Lathrup (w/T. Edison))

3D Printing In Mid-Air
'It makes drawings in the air...' - Murray Leinster, 1945. (re: Murray Leinster)

Underwater Robot Moves Like A Jellyfish
'It was a chemotactic artificial jellyfish...' - Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling, 1994. (re: Rucker and Sterling)

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