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    91 month ago

    “we made the plane 100% transparent! now you can tell if the pilots are doing anything bad, it’s a major step forward. also it doesn’t really fly now”

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      1 month ago

      the plane’s made of perspex and the wires are salt-soaked strings wrapped in liquorice strips for isolation but it’s fine, our designer signed off on it

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        41 month ago

        Wasn’t the space ship in Niven’s Ringworld series both literally indestructible and transparent? There’s no way I’m going back to check because Niven is one of those authors I realized decades after reading him was a dirty old man.