Sense of Wonder

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Nicholas: How ’bout the collision of two Dyson spheres?

Brendan: Bor-ring.

N: Two sentient Dyson spheres.

B: How can a Dyson sphere be sentient? It’s just, like, a shell with a sun inside.

N: Both spheres are made of nanotech. You know? Little microscopic robots and they’re all linked into big hive-minds.

B: So the spheres are big computers?

N: Hive-minds. Because each nanite is sentient on its own. Each one is way smarter than humans to begin with.

B: If they’re so smart, why are the spheres colliding? They should just change course.

N: Because…because one sphere is made of matter and the other’s antimatter! A big antimatter Dyson sphere, the size of a whole solar system, right? And it’s getting pulled toward the normal-matter one because opposites attract.

B: You mean like you and Ashley McGregor?

N: I am not attracted to…the only reason I even talk to her is just she lives two houses down from me.

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