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• Colonial Defense Forces, I agree to bear arms and to use them against the enemies of the Colonial Union,
• medical, surgical or therapeutic regimens or procedures are deemed necessary by the Colonial Defense Forces to enhance combat readiness.
• xenobiological disasters like The Crimp.
• on a fast elevator (which is of course exactly what the beanstalk is) and watched the Earth begin its slide.
• The “hole” of the donut, where the platform slid up the ’stalk, was about twenty feet wide. The cable’s diameter was obviously slightly less than that; perhaps about eighteen feet, which if you thought about it hardly seemed thick enough for a cable several thousand miles long. The rest of the space was filled with comfortable booths and couches wh...