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"Fuzzy logic tries to get machines to think like people do, with inexact fuzzy terms."
- Bart Kosko
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| Impervium | ||
| Unique material is impenetrable and indestructible. |
| A half mile beneath the shallow Venusian sea the black impervium dome that protects the Montana Keep rests frowningly on the bottom. |
| Technovelgy from Clash by Night,
by Lawrence O'Donnell. Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1943 Additional resources -
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Impervium joins a long line of science-fictional materials the properties of which you can guess by their names: consider Steelonium from Hugo Gernsback's 1911 classic Ralph 124c 41 +, Plasteel from Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune and Helio-Beryllium from Robert H. Wilson's 1931 story Out Around Rigel.
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