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"The whole problem of energy sources is going to be solved by little solutions, not by some big new piece of technology that does everything. We got into this crisis by believing that we had one big piece of technology that would do everything (oil)."
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![]() A very early description of a means to communicate with a spacecraft from the surface of the Earth.
Compare to this method of communicating with extraterrestrials from Jule Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (1867). Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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