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21 " If you don’t have avocados, you can’t make guacamole. "
― Neil deGrasse Tyson , Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
22 " Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Fear not, till Birnam wood / Do come to Dunsinane”). "
23 " Anyone who can’t afford to depend on serendipity would say you have to identify your target or goal in advance. "
24 " But whenever the War Department supplies the funding, part the curtains and you’ll see the needs of conflict masquerading as the needs of science. "
25 " What you might not have come across is the fact that Hubble is basically a photoreconnaissance satellite whose cameras point upward at the heavens rather than downward at Earth. "
26 " Take America’s Global Positioning System, GPS—two dozen satellites in orbit at about 12,500 miles above Earth, more than fifty times higher than ordinary low-Earth-orbit satellites "
27 " Here in our solar system, a hundred-meter-wide asteroid sails into Earth every millennium or so at speeds upward of fifty thousand miles an hour, generating a destructive impact equal to 2,500 atomic bombs. "
28 " By 2017, Star Wars had barely made it past the concept stage. "
29 " your canary, and your houseplants, dead or alive, all emit infrared. "
30 " near real time. . . . If the intelligence establishment can in effect use a credit card to buy excellent commercial imagery, so can tyrants and terrorists.71 "