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"Another reason why privacy could be just a passing fad, terrorism is going to get too good. [1997]"
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![]() How to reduce the weight of these great ships of metal?
Minus-matter has various uses:
"After that it was easy to develop and implement technical applications for the discovery — first, flying machines for movement within the
atmosphere, and then vehicles for travel to other planets."
...Let us not forget that radioactive matter is not only used to give the etheronephs their enormous velocity. You know that our entire chemical industry is now based on these substances. We use them to manufacture minus-matter, without which the etheronephs and our countless aircraft are only heavy, useless boxes. It is impossible to discontinue such uses of active matter.
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