Book details of 'Richter 10'

Title	Richter 10
Author(s)	Mike McQuay, Arthur Charles Clarke
ISBN	0553573330
Language	English
Publisher	Bantam Books

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
If reviewers actually like to rip a book apart, this is an embarrassment of riches. OK, first of all we have dorph. Made from endorphins. Natural. Organic. Therefore non-addictive, right? Nobody has heard of psychological addiction, eh? [Sigh.] Spot welding tectonic plates with hydrogen bombs sounds a little risky. H-bombs tend to be better at pushing things apart than holding them together. We have a digging machine that can throw dirt a full mile straight (*dead* straight) up in the air. Now, even though that is many, many orders of magnitude better than anything we've got today, what *really* astounds me is that the dirt, rocks, and other implements of destruction don't immediately fall right back down that same straight mile. With fantastically accurate data based on observations of the current state of the earth, a super-fantastic-really-good program is unable to simulate a massively cataclysmic geological event. However, making wild guesses on the state of the world before an event that we know nothing about, the same program is able to accurately work it out. (And since when have you had to worry about an imaged simulation shaking itself to pieces? "Capt'n, we must shut'ter doon! The photons canna take any more o' this!") Oi vei. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1998
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