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"The immediate problem with our meat brains is that they have no back-up. We can lose the most precious information we have from one bump on the head or stroke. You want a mind system with back-up that can access other databases."
- Bart Kosko
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| Bats' Cave | ||
| A natural cavern used by moon colonists for air storage - and entertainment. |
| Most of the stuff written about Bats' Cave gives a wrong impression. It's the air storage tank for the city, just like all the colonies have - the place where the scavenger pumps, deep down, deliver the air until it's needed. We just happen to be lucky enough to have one big enough to fly in. But it never was built, or anything like that; it's just a big volcanic bubble, two miles across, and if it had broken through, way back when, it would have been a crater. |
| From The Menace From Earth,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by Fantasy House in 1957 Additional resources -
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Be sure to learn about Storer-Gulls wings ; colonists used them to fly by flapping their arms, which works in the 1/6th Earth gravity on the Moon.
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