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"...the people dealing with these new technologies will still be derived from the human stock we're familiar with today."
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In this excerpt from the novel, Louis Wu is discussing a puzzling discovery.
Scrith has another interesting property, revealed when a spaceship plowed a furrow in the scrith forming the foundation of the Ringworld:
The flat, grayish, translucent material beneath the ship was terribly slippery...
"...Watch out when you get down. The surface is almost frictionless."
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