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There Is A One-in-300 Chance That Earth Will Be Struck On March 16, 2880, By An Asteroid Large Enough To Destroy Civilization And Possibly Cause The Extinction Of The Human Race. But, On The Bright Side, Prince Could Re-release His Hit Song With The New Refrain 'we're Gonna Party Like Its Twenty-eight Seventy-nine.'

When We First Did 'modernist Cuisine,' I Think Most People In Cookbook Publishing Would Have Said, 'this Is Insane.'

A Blowtorch Is A Wonderful Thing. You Can Get One Of Those For About 25 Bucks At Home Depot. And There's A Ton Of Things That You Can Use A Blowtorch For, In Browning A Steak Or Touching Up The Browning Of A Chicken Or Making Creme Brulee.

The Way Moore's Law Occurs In Computing Is Really Unprecedented In Other Walks Of Life. If The Boeing 747 Obeyed Moore's Law, It Would Travel A Million Miles An Hour, It Would Be Shrunken Down In Size, And A Trip To New York Would Cost About Five Dollars. Those Enormous Changes Just Aren't Part Of Our Everyday Experience.

Another Random Thing I Do Is The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Or Seti. And You May Be Familiar With The Movie 'contact,' Which Sort Of Popularized That. It Turns Out There Are Real People Who Go Out And Search For Extraterrestrials In A Very Scientific Way.