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; Sid Meiers ALPHA CENTAURI
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; Long Tech Descriptions
; Modified for Aldebaran by Smack (Alex Proctor)
; Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 by Firaxis Games, Inc.
; Tweaked by Smack for Aldebaran


##Social Controls
#TECH0
Fifty years is ample time in which to change a world and its people 
almost beyond recognition. All that is required for the task are a 
sound knowledge of social engineering, a clear sight of the intended 
goal - and power. 
^
^     -- Arthur C. Clake Childhoods End
^

##Information Networks
#TECH1
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine 
women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month. 
^
^     -Wernher von Braun. 
^

##Aroboreal Beginnings
#TECH2
Geese appear high over us, 
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, 
as in love or sleep, holds 
them to their way, clear 
in the ancient faith: what we need 
is here. And we pray, not 
for new earth or heaven, but to be 
quiet in heart, and in eye, 
clear. What we need is here.  - Wendell Berry 
^

##Industrial Structures
#TECH3
Build.  


##The Wheel
#TECH4
Roll.  


##Psionics
#TECH5
Bells theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that 
appear to resemble telepathic communication. 
^
^     -- Gary Zukav 
^

##Applied Physics
#TECH6
If its green or wriggles, its biology.
If it stinks, its chemistry.
If it doesnt work, its physics... Handy guide to science.
^

##Aldebaran Environments
#TECH7
The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all 
concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest 
struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those 
who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men 
who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without 
thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of 
its many waters. 
^
^     -- Frederick Douglas
^

##Tacit Controls
#TECH8
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought 
which they avoid.  - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) 
^

##Field Sciences
#TECH9
I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost... 
^
^     -- Stephen Wright
^

##Sentient Algorithms
#TECH10
Gibber7.
^

##Gastric Frontiers
#TECH11
There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass... 
unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing 
crab grass with suspicion. What are its real motives? And who sent it 
here in the first place? It only looks like crab grass. Thats what they 
want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and 
their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full 
of crab grass and itll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to 
be crab grass, will dictate terms. 
^
^     -- Phillip K. Dick
^

##Commercial Applications
#TECH12
 I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel 
 and incompetent comes naturally to me. 
^ 
^     -- John Cleese
^

##The Chironator
#TECH13
Gibber4.
^

#Human Ecology
#TECH14
But back to Athens. The idea of the colony, as you've
gathered, is to build up an independent, stable cultural
group with its own traditions. I should point out that 
a vast amount of research took place before we started 
this enterprise. Its really a piece of applied social 
engineering, based on some exceedingly complex mathematics
which I wouldnt pretend to understand. All I know is 
that the mathematical sociologists have ... 
^   
^   -- Arthur C. Clake Childhoods End
^

##Field Manipulations
#TECH15
The mole is a quantity of substance. The new prefix guaca 
is defined such that one guacamole equals Avocados Number. 
^
^G. Byrne. 
^

##Robotics
#TECH16
Am I already in the shadow of the Coming Race? and will the 
creatures who are to transcend and finally supersede us be 
steely organisms, giving out the effluvia of the laboratory,
and performing with infallible exactness more than everything 
that we have performed with a slovenly approximativeness and 
self-defeating inaccuracy? -- George Eliot, The Impressions 
of Theophrastus Such, 1879.   
^

##Practical Genetics
#TECH17
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no life guard. 
^

##Subplanet Structures
#TECH18
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want 
and deserve to get it good and hard. 
^
^     -- H. L. Mencken
^

##Cascading Networks
#TECH19
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do 
the work that befits it, just as the creations of Daedalus moved 
of themselves . . . If the weavers shuttles were to weave of 
themselves, then there would be no need either of apprentices for 
the master workers or of slaves for the lords. 
^
^     -- Aristotle
^

##Mental Harmonics
#TECH20
Whereas the opposite of a small Truth is false, the opposite of a 
Great Truth is another Great Truth. 
^
^     -- Neils Bohr
^

##Projectiles in Practice
#TECH21
Back5.
^

##The Fungus Amongus
#TECH22
Back4.
^

##Illicit Controls
#TECH23
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, 
youve got it made. 
^
^     -- Groucho Marx
^

##Chirons Legacy
#TECH24
Back2.
^

##Weak Fields
#TECH25
The music of the heavens being eternal, Leonardo understood that 
friction is absent from the state of grace. Thus confined to this 
mortal world, friction is a consequence of original sin. 
^
^     -- Brian Armstrong-Helouvry, Control of Machines with Friction. 
^

##Transcendent Practices
#TECH26
If it is also true that, at least in its technological form, progress 
drags men and things toward a nihilistic fate and allows nothing and 
no one to escape from is space, we must argue against third worldism 
that [...] the dysfunctions and distortions of development do not 
undermine a fundamental unity, a fundamental tendency toward unity. 
Then Rostow is right, except for a few blunders, notably that to 
progress is to advance toward decline. 
^
^     -- Bernard-Henri Levy Barbarism with a Human Face
^

##The Planet Pill
#TECH27
From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the 
Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made 
every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They 
are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals. The fearfuly good, 
the orthodox, of this laborious patch-work of modern civilization 
cry Heresy on every one whose sympathies reach a single hairs breadth 
beyond the boundary epidermis of our own species. Not content with 
taking all of earth, they also claim the celestial country as the 
only ones who possess the kind of souls for which that imponderable 
empire was planned.  -- John Muir
^

##Planetfriend
#TECH28
Aye7.
^

##The People Pill
#TECH29
The word politics is derived from the word poly, meaning many, and 
the word ticks, meaning blood sucking parasites. 
^
^     -- Larry Hardiman
^

##Quasi Autonomy
#TECH30
For systems of the future, we need to think in terms of shifting the 
burden of evolution from programmers to the systems themselves. ... 
to build systems that can take some responsibility for their own evolution. 
^
^     -- Huff, K. and Selfridge, O.
^

##The Hunter Disturbance
#TECH31
Ye knowe ek that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho
That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. 
^
^     -- Geoffrey Chaucer
^

##Command Structures
#TECH32
Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. 
Situation excellent. I am attacking.  
^
^-- Ferdinand Foch - at the Battle of the Marne 
^

##Planetweapons
#TECH33
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open 
to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the 
Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple 
things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. 
Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to 
be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be 
friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a 
fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived 
together in peace; even affectionately.
^
Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, 
and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from 
Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from 
Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist 
from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel 
from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back 
to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the 
other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and 
fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. 
These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and 
carried the matter to a Higher Court. -- Samuel Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain
^

##Silksteels
#TECH34
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most 
discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but Thats funny...
^
^     -- Isaac Asimov
^

##Psuedopsionics
#TECH35
Rabbits clever, said Pooh thoughtfully. 
Yes, said Piglet, Rabbits clever. 
And he has Brain. 
Yes, said Piglet, Rabbit has Brain. 
There was a long silence. 
I suppose, said Pooh, that thats why he never understands anything. 
^
^     -- Alan Alexander Milne
^

##Matter Transmission
#TECH36
gI look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. 
What Im not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once 
I arrive at my destination. 
^
^     -Marc Beland. 
^

##The Bernouli Principle
#TECH37
...at the same time that Mrs. Ph(i)Nko was uttering those words: ...ah, 
what noodles, boys! the point that contained her and all of us was 
expanding in a halo of distance in light-years and light-centuries and 
billions of light-millennia, and we were being hurled to the four 
corners of the universe.. 
^
^     --Italo Calvino - Cosmicomics
^

##Tactile Robotics
#TECH38
The deep paradox uncovered by AI research: the only way to deal 
efficiently with very complex problems is to move away from pure logic. 
Most of the time, reaching the right decision requires little reasoning. 
Expert systems are, thus, not about reasoning: they are about knowing 
... Reasoning takes time, so we try to do it as seldom as possible. 
Instead we store the results of our reasoning for later reference 
^
^     -- Daniel Crevier, The Tumultuous History of the Search 
^               for Artificial Intelligence, 1993.


##Arboreal Mastery
#TECH39
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but 
humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. 
To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; 
one need only own a good shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole 
in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree--and there 
will be one. 
^
If his back be strong and his shovel sharp, there may eventually be 
ten thousand. And in the seventh year he may lean upon his shovel, 
and look upon his trees, and find them good. 
^
^     -- Aldo Leopold 
^

##The Planetpark
#TECH40
Parks.
^

##Collective Projections
#TECH41
The Web of Thought, Id have you know,
Is like a Weavers Masterpiece:
The restless shuttles never cease
The yarn invisibly runs to and fro,
A single treadle governs many a thread,
And at a stroke a thousand strands are wed.
And so philosophers step in
To weave a proof that things begin,
Past question, with an origen.  -Goethe, Faust
^

##Nautical Traditions
#TECH42
Boats.
^

##Extractive Economies
#TECH43
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as 
much as possible of its environment into itself... When we compare 
the (present) human population of the globe with... that of former 
times, we see that chemical imperialism has been... the main end to 
which human intelligence has been devoted. 
^
^     --Bertrand Russell
^

##The Seeker Disturbance
#TECH44
One night I was, as usual, observing the sky with my telescope. 
I noticed that a sign was hanging from a galaxy a hundred million 
light-years away. On it was written: 
^
^          I SAW YOU. 
^          
^     --Italo Calvino - Cosmicomics
^

##The Will to Destroy
#TECH45
Boom.
^

##Thermodynamic Laboratory
#TECH46
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level 
wouldnt cure. - ROSS MAC DONALD and 1. Irrigation of the land 
with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. 
Its called rain. 
^
^     -- Michael Mc Clary
^

##Subsurface Diets
#TECH47
Chew.
^

##Structural Frontiers
#TECH48
build2.
^

##The Collective Mind
#TECH49
Think.
^

##Macroeconomics
#TECH50
..if capital is, as I think I have shown, a kind of end of history, 
we must argue against the skeptics that advancing and declining are 
two aspects of the same process, and that [...] it is now really 
entering the domain and the age of progress -a progress which is 
another name for horror and barbarism. 
^
^     --Bernard-Henri Levy 'Barbarism with a Human Face'
^

##Purpleation
#TECH51
There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks 
out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on 
its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth 
around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples 
of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, 
then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask 
rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as 
happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes 
like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little 
bed of violets in the heart where it came from. 
^
^     -- Josh Billings 
^

##Tachyon Fields
#TECH52
(On Bacon and Faustus): It is not truth he wants from the devils, 
but gold and guns and girls. In the same spirit, Bacon condemns 
those who value knowledge as an end in itself... The true object 
is to extend Mans power to the performance of all things possible. 
He rejects magic because it does not work; but his goal is that of 
the magician... 
^
^     -- C.S. Lewis
^

##Matter Replication
#TECH53
Between two evils, I always choose the one I never tried before. 
^
^     -- Mae West
^

##Core Mining Platform
#TECH54
The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and 
inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable 
curiosity and the desire to do good. The latter is put high above 
the former, and yet it is the former that moves one of the most 
useful men the human race has yet produced: the scientific 
investigator. What actually urges him on is not some brummagem 
idea of Service, but a boundless, almost pathological thirst to 
penetrate the unknown, to uncover the secret, to find out what has 
not been found out before. His prototype is not the liberator 
releasing slaves, the good Samaritan lifting up the fallen, but 
a dog sniffing tremendously at an infinite series of rat-holes. 
^
^     -- H.L. Menken
^

##Fusion Power
#TECH55
Nietzche is dead. (signed, GOD)
^

##Organic Microstructures
#TECH56
Mitochondria live inside our cells but reproduce at different 
times with different methods from the rest of our bodies cells. 
They are descendants of ancient bacteria. Either engulfed as 
prey or invading as predators, these bacteria took up residence 
inside foreign cells, forming an uneasy alliance that provided 
waste disposal and oxygen-derived energy in return for food and 
shelter. Without mitochondria, the nucleated plant or animal 
cell cannot breathe and therefore dies. 
^
^     -- Lynn Margulis
^

##The Planetbolt
#TECH57
I have often had occasion to quote Freuds incisive, almost rueful, 
observation that all major revolutions in the history of science 
have as their comon theme, amidst such diversity, the successive 
dethronement of human arorogance from one pillar after another of 
our previous cosmic assurance. 
^
^     -- Stephan J. Gould.
^

##Self Assembling Structures
#TECH58
Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light. 
^
^     -- David Ferrier
^

##Autonomous Defenses
#TECH59
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for 
adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting 
different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical 
and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural 
selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree. 
^
^     -- Charles Darwin
^

##Planetary Metaphysics
#TECH60
The universe was vast, but that fact terrified him less than its 
mystery. George was not a person who thought deeply on such matters, 
yet sometimes it seemed to him that men were like children amusing 
themselves in some secluded playground, protected from the fierce 
realities of the outer world......[]...He had no wish to face 
whatever lurked in the unknown darkness, just beyond the little 
circle of light cast by the lamp of Science. 
^
^     --Arthur C. Clake Childhoods End
^

##Self Aware Systems
#TECH61
Some fishes become extinct, but Herrings go on forever. 
Herrings spawn at all times and places and nothing will induce them 
to change their ways. They have no fish control. Herrings congregate 
in schools, where they learn nothing at all. They move in vast 
numbers in May and October. Herrings subsist upon Copepods and 
Copepods subsist upon Diatoms and Diatoms just float around and 
reproduce. Young Herrings or Sperling or Whitebait are rather cute. 
They have serrated abdomens. The skull of the Common or Coney Island 
Herring is triangular, but he would be just the same anyway. 
(The nervous system of the Herring is fairly simple. When the Herring 
runs into something the stimulus is flashed to the forebrain, with or 
without results.) 
^
^     -- Will Cuppy
^

##Linear Regressions
#TECH62
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony 
be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the 
fact which it endeavors to establish. 
^
^     --David Hume
^

##Quantum Mechanics
#TECH63
I dont like it, and Im sorry I ever had anything to do with it 
^
^     --Erwin Schrodinger
^

##Ascetic Practices
#TECH64
When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized 
most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men 
pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared 
to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral 
aims to the ambitions of a pig. 
^
^     -- Albert Einstein
^

##Mass Transit
#TECH65
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not 
experience it. 
^
^     -- Max Frisch
^

##The Planet Shard
#TECH66
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption 
not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully 
astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all Gods 
universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call 
useful to themselves. 
^
^     --John Muir
^

##Telekinetic Defenses
#TECH67
You have to be careful not to move your hand up and down, at least in 
the beginning, because the wind generated by the movement of your hand 
could cause the spoon to move. You must also be careful to note any 
breezes in the room from heating or air conditioning, since your hand 
might block the breeze off and on and cause the spoon to move 
accordingly. If you rest your elbow on the table while doing this, be 
sure the table is VERY solidly positioned or you may accidentally 
cause the table to rock slightly in a rhythmic way, which can also  
cause the spoon to move. (from a manual on Tk)
^

##Quantum Lasers
#TECH68
When it is persisted that we should have to be told about the 
calculations and use our ears for that purpose, I reply that the 
mathematical process has a reality and virtue in itself, and that 
once discovered it constitutes a new and independent factor. I am 
also at this point accustomed to reaffirm with emphasis my conviction 
that the sun is real, and also that it is hot--in fact hot as Hell, 
and that if the metaphysicians doubt it they should go there and see. 
^
^     -- Winston Churchill
^

##Antimatter Applications
#TECH69
The first essential steps in developing a practical matter/antimatter 
propulsion system are related to the production, accumulation and 
storage of antimatter in amounts large enough to be useful, 
understanding that a large amount of antimatter is still a very small 
mass. For example, the equivalent of the total energy stored in the 
Space Shuttle External Tank is only 71 milligrams of antimatter. The 
figure below depicts the quantities of antimatter needed for a 
progression of missions, as well as some spinoff applications that 
would be enabled. - (Advanced Space Transportation Program, NASA, 2001)
^

##Industrial Fontiers
#TECH70
Frontier.
^

##Nanorobotics
#TECH71
Von Neumanns proposal consisted of two central elements: a Universal 
Computer and a Universal Constructor (see figure 1). The Universal 
Computer contains a program that directs the behavior of the Universal 
Constructor. The Universal Constructor, in turn, is used to manufacture 
both another Universal Computer and a Universal Constructor. Once 
finished, the newly manufactured Universal Computer was programmed by 
copying the program contained in the original Universal Computer, and 
program execution would then begin.
^

##The Singularity Machine
#TECH72
It is possible to settle the issue by a simple calculation. 
Astronomers can measure the masses of galaxies, their average separation, 
and their speeds of recession. Putting these numbers into a formula 
yields a quantity which some physicists have interpreted as the total 
energy of the universe. The answer does indeed come out to be zero wihin 
the observational accuracy. The reason for this distinctive result has 
long been a source of puzzlement to cosmologists. Some have suggested 
that there is a deep cosmic principle at work which requires the universe 
to have exactly zero energy. If that is so the cosmos can follow the path 
of least resistance, coming into existence without requiring any input of 
matter or energy at all. 
^
^     -- Paul Davies
^

##Cloning
#TECH73
Cloning.
^

##Gravitons Are
#TECH74
Gravity is weird. It is clearly one of the fundamental interactions, but 
the Standard Model cannot satisfactorily explain it. This is one of those 
major unanswered problems in physics today. In addition, the gravity force 
carrier particle has not been found. Such a particle, however, is predicted 
to exist and may someday be found: the graviton. - The Particle Adventure 
^

##The Velocyrix Wall
#TECH75
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. 
^
^     -- Douglas Adams
^

##Singularities for Use
#TECH76
Something,
^

##Planetmind
#TECH77
They have magnificent temples, that are not only nobly built, but 
extremely spacious; which is the more necessary, as they have so 
few of them; they are a little dark within, which proceeds not 
from any error in the architecture, but is done with design; for 
their priests think that too much light dissipates the thoughts, 
and that a more moderate degree of it both recollects the mind and 
raises devotion. 
^
^     -- Thomas Moore, Utopia
^

##Transcendent Thought
#TECH87
To expect a transcendental object to appear on a viewing screen wired 
by an epistemology that is set for control would be tantamount to expecting 
color to appear on a television screen that was built for black and 
white.[..]  But if things superior to us exist -extraterrestrial 
intelligences superior to our own? angels? God?- these are not going to 
fit into our controlled experiments. It is they who dance circles around us, 
not we them. 
^
^     -- Huston Smith 'Beyond the Post-Modern Mind'
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