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"The bottom line in the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better to rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes."
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![]() I don't think that this is the earliest use of this idea, but it's still worth looking at.
This is an interesting idea. For one thing, there really aren't any straight lines in space, at least for material objects going through the solar system; gravity fields and the constantly changing locations of the planets make direct "beams" difficult. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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