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How to Build A Rocket at Home
If people live a lot longer it will be disastrous for the environment, so people working on this must be really unethical.
—Casual comment overheard in Berkeley, spoken in the tone of self-evident truth
Dash juggled the last of four large boxes into the back of an arvee. As she straightened, she saw Chance approach. "Chance!" she cried. "You are just in time to come with me to celebrate!" Dash hopped into one of the front seats and patted the other. "Come on."
Chance, quite mystified by this eagerly excited version of her boss, climbed into the seat next to her. "What are we celebrating?"
Dash just laughed. "You will know in just a couple of minutes."
As the car surged over the gangway to the Elysian Fields, Chance tried to guess where they were going
