Project Hail Mary: A Novel

If I never see another chain again in my life, it will be too soon.

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Cool thing about pendulums: The time it takes for one to swing forward and backward—the period—won’t change, no matter how wide it swings. If it’s got a lot of energy, it’ll swing farther and faster, but the period will still be the same.

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Mass conversion. As the great Albert Einstein once said: E = mc2. There’s an absurd amount of energy in mass. A modern nuclear plant can power an entire city for a year with the energy stored in just one kilogram of Uranium. Yes. That’s it. The entire output of a nuclear reactor for a year comes from a single kilogram of mass.

The faster you go, the less time you experience.

Thing is, when stupid ideas work, they become genius ideas.

And a pack instinct is required for a species to become intelligent.

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