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• I have often been asked: if we have traveled between the stars, why can we not launch the simplest of orbital probes?
  These fools fail to understand the difficulty of finding the appropriate materials on this Planet, of developing adequate power supplies, and creating the infrastructure necessary to support such an effort....
• Man has killed man from the beginning of time, and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die.
  Why should the future be different? -- Col....
• It is altogether fitting that we who have sailed the deeps of space now return again to the sea.
  This is in many ways a water planet, and it can be ruled from the waves....
• Proper care and education for our children remains a cornerstone of our entire colonization effort.
  Children not only shape our future; they determine in many ways our present....
• We shall take only the greatest minds, the finest soldiers, the most faithful servants.
  We shall multiply them a thousandfold and release them to usher in a new era of glory....
• jiffy n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer (see tick).
  Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U....
• There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one
  and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved....
• The Most Popular People Are Cooks! The Most Overworked Also!
• Our scientists now use fractal theory to "teach" the molecules to assume, or resume, a particular form.
  Substances of amazing strength become simple once the formulae are properly computed....