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"None of us, no matter what continent or island or ice cap, asked to be born in the first place, and that even somebody as old as I am, which is 80, only just got here."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Plastibulb | ||
| A squeezable drink container. |
| The empty beer cans grew more numerous. There was only one company, somewhere in Europe, that put up beer in cans nowadays, instead of using the omnipresent plastibulbs, but Gallegher preferred the cans—the flavor was different, somehow. |
| Technovelgy from The Proud Robot,
by Lewis Padgett. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1943 Additional resources -
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Compare to the water bulb from Pohl and Kornbluth's 1952 classic The Space Merchants and drinking bulb from Larry Niven's 1966 short story The Warriors (although most readers probably remember it from his 1971 novel Ringworld).
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