“They’re showing it on the news, John,” Elizabeth said. “They said there was a tyrannosaur running through the streets and that it ate a couple of people, a horse, and a policeman.”
“I can’t confirm any of that,” John said.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
—Calvin Coolidge
“It’s a snowmobile,” Maven said. “I don’t remember this in the mission briefing.”
“They told us to expect the unexpected,” Chandra said.
“They tell you that kind of stuff, but you never really believe them,” Maven said. “Until now. A snowmobile on the moon?” Maven mumbled as he resumed hopping.
“We should bury him,” Maven said.
“And the leg bone we found?” Chandra asked.
“If there’s time,” Watson said, understanding the feeling. Even on the moon, the cultural need to return humans to the soil was strong.
That’s right, Senator, by passing through the passages inside the pyramids, we were able to travel forward and back in time and to quite remote locations. While we traveled only a few thousand years back in time, the fact that dinosaurs traveled to our present is proof that much more distant travel is theoretically possible.
—Dr. Nick Paulson, testimony to the Senate Committee for Security Affairs