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“The Saturn ring system is lousy with these little moonlets. There are hundreds of them, maybe thousands. … From far off, Saturn’s rings appeared stable and fixed, but those ringlets performed a constant and chaotic dance with gravity. Gaps would shift kilometers inward or outward. Sometimes they disappeared entirely …
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Shutting up academics is like trying to herd cats.
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“Screw a bunch of emotions. If your relationship can’t survive a little white lie. Then it probably can’t survive, anyway,” Santeros said. “Might as well get it over with.”
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… with nine billion people on Earth, anything that you could conceive of people doing to each other was being done. All the time.