
Just go get that reputation and have fun.
Palmer, and J.
A nasty Congressional committee orders an uppity ranch owner to testify.
From the film's own website:
These figures can be varied at will to produce an infinite range of tapers Morse 1, 2 etc and feeds without having to carefully set the top slide at the angle required.
Strongholds themselves.
When Dimitri Mendeleev invented the periodic table of the elementsthere were interesting holes in it.
Mineral handwavium in a science fiction setting often has descriptions like "the most valuable substance in the universe", "basis for the interstellar econonmy", and " sine qua non of [fill in sex questions examples blank]".
Niven also sometimes used the murder-mystery technique, often without specifying that there is a mystery in the first place.
The businessman says it is too late to suppress the invention, but if the engineers want to prevent it from being a complete and utter disaster, they had better go and invent some substance that cannot be replicated ASAP.
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