{"quotes":[{"text":"Children are turning themselves into monsters and, quite frankly, it is your fault. You initiated the creation of this technology, then you allowed it to slip through your fingers.”Miriam’s jaw tightened. “I disagree, but now is the least optimal time imaginable for assigning blame. People are dying, and I will not stand around debating semantics with you while they are.","author":"G.S. Jennsen","tags":["ai","artificial-intelligence","cybernetics","cyberpunk","science-fiction","scifi","space-exploration","space-opera","space-travel","spaceships"],"id":1605,"author_id":"G.S.+Jennsen"},{"text":"Why? Why did you kill them?”He laughed, recognizing it bore a frightening coldness. “Because you walked through the wrong door, and they paid you to do it. You will be a testament to the terror that arrives the moment you or anyone else crosses the invisible line you didn’t know existed until tonight. Spread the word.","author":"G.S. Jennsen","tags":["sci-fi","science-fiction","scifi","space-exploration","space-opera","spaceships"],"id":5010,"author_id":"G.S.+Jennsen"},{"text":"Her perception was propelled backward, as if it were being pulled into a vortex. She slammed into her body, and her eyes flew open with a gasp.“Alex?”She sat straight up in the chair and grabbed Caleb by the shoulders. “We have to save them.","author":"G.S. Jennsen","tags":["ai","aliens","artificial-intelligence","science-fiction","science-fiction-romance","scifi","space-exploration","space-opera","spaceships"],"id":5360,"author_id":"G.S.+Jennsen"},{"text":"The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason why we have not been to Mars and will likely never go there successfully with humans.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["hard","human","humanity-and-society","magnitude","mars","moon","moon-landing","moons","nasa","space","space-and-cosmos","space-exploration","space-program","space-travel","spaceship","spaceships","successfully"],"id":8719,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Radical space technologies never reach the public because unknown groups do not wish humanity to have access to the highest knowledge or the most advanced scientific inventions. Perhaps this suppression is out of fear that the masses may be able to explore our Solar System and the Universe beyond it. Whatever the case, it seems they want us to stay at ignorant levels forever.","author":"Takaaki Musha","tags":["space","space-exploration","space-travel","suppressed-science","technology"],"id":9098,"author_id":"Takaaki+Musha"},{"text":"We want to know. We want to know who we are and what we are capable of.I want to know.And yet we were dragged into another war. Another seemingly inevitable and gruesome legacy passed down, along with soma.","author":"Jeno Marz","tags":["adventure","aliens","astrosociobiology","family-relationships","love-story","science-fiction","space-exploration","space-opera","spaceships"],"id":12189,"author_id":"Jeno+Marz"},{"text":"You ask me to make peace with the monsters who did this?”She didn’t even look around at ‘this.’ “Yes. The alternative is extinction. There’s no coming back from that—no new weapon to fire when no one is left and you’ve no universe left to fire it in.","author":"G.S. Jennsen","tags":["aliens","science-fiction","scifi","space-exploration","space-opera","space-travel","spaceships"],"id":18736,"author_id":"G.S.+Jennsen"},{"text":"Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.","author":"Gene Roddenberry","tags":["differences","humanity","life","maturity","space-exploration","star-trek","tolerance","wisdom"],"id":20431,"author_id":"Gene+Roddenberry"},{"text":"She thought he might have said her name, but it was background radiation accompanying the hum in her ears and the symphony in her head——a song of quantum mechanics and trajectory calculations and astroscience physics and where to go, where to go, where to….","author":"G.S. Jennsen","tags":["adventure","science-fiction","science-fiction-romance","space-exploration","space-opera"],"id":27213,"author_id":"G.S.+Jennsen"},{"text":"The one that will put the first human colony on another planet is certainly the most important human on Earth. And you can judge the rest of mankind of his time by how they judge him along the way.","author":"Robin Sacredfire","tags":["elon-musk","mars","space-exploration","space-x","time-travel"],"id":27979,"author_id":"Robin+Sacredfire"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":114,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}