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## [RST] Ground Effect
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* Author: u/PeridexisErrant *put aside fear for courage, and death for life**
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* URL: http://qntm.org/ground
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* Score: 10
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* Created: 2015-08-19T11:27:44
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### Post:
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[Link to content](http://qntm.org/ground)
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### Comments:
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> **u/PeridexisErrant** [+5] *put aside fear for courage, and death for life* (a minute later)
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> I just love the last few lines:
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> >*I created this list in five minutes. Until I came into this meeting I didn't even know what Project Ground Effect was.*
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> >*A human being?* Draw up an international treaty outlawing that tosh. God help us, there isn't a worse idea in the world. We just created a brand new superpower and you're talking about bestowing it on a *human being?*
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> **u/ArgentStonecutter** [+1] *Emergency Mustelid Hologram* (an hour later)
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> Is this referring to some movie I haven't heard of?
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> Larry Niven did this one of the "Gil the Arm" detective stories, _ARM_. Covers about half the tropes listed here.
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> [spoiler](#s " A guy commits murder by turning the field on and shining a flashlight out of it.")
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> Actually, I recommend all the "Gil the Arm" stories. Pretty much all of them are about munckining superscience.
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