Finally, in one fateful trillionth of a second, a nuclear compound was formed that had two very important… — Robert L. Forward
Finally, in one fateful trillionth of a second, a nuclear compound was formed that had two very important properties: it was stable, and it could make a copy of itself.
Life had come to the crust of the neutron star.
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