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After a short flurry of national and international concern over the “death of the Sun,” the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew—they ignored it and hoped it would go away.

— Robert L. Forward Dragon's Egg (1980)

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They used their intelligence to control things around them, instead of letting nature and the strong-muscled have their way.

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If the computer had been a human, its eyebrows would have raised.

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An animal doesn’t need to develop curiosity and intelligence if it has no problems that need solving.

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They are signaling to us with the neutron star equivalent of America Indian smoke signals!

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His eye-stubs reached out toward the Eyes in an attempt to copulate with the stars.

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