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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection."
- Arthur C. Clarke
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| Sprayrock | ||
| Special compound that can be sprayed onto a surface, that hardens into rock. |
It's kind of like sprayable concrete, useful for building things in a vacuum.
| Three of them ... were laying down sprayrock... The false gravity assisted the sprayrock application, bedding down the layers of the binary compound before they fused.
His hand moved to shut the trigger of the sprayrock gun... |
| From Pushing Ice,
by Alastair Reynolds. Published by Gollancz in 2005 Additional resources -
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Compare this item to the technology used in the real-life Contour Crafting 3D House Printer.
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