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"In 1970 I found little difficulty staying 30 years ahead of the man in the street, and now I find it difficult to stay 18 months ahead of the man on the street."
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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. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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