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"ref": "2008, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis Neal Irwin, Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints, Springer Science & Business Media, page 128",
"text": "[…] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).",
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"ref": "2008, Ron Sanders, Legerdemainia, page 71",
"text": "As they approached the steps the Klee-shaes could hear a terran favorite over the great building's Public Address system—it was Neil Young warbling Keep On Rocking In The Free World, but a Fartian host, misunderstanding the moment, transferred the track to Mollify.",
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"ref": "2011, David Weber, How Firm a Foundation: A Novel in the Safehold Series (#5), Macmillan",
"text": "Like most “fish” native to Safehold, it has a very long, sinuous body but the head does resemble a terran hake or cod, with a hooked jaw.",
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"ref": "2013, Doug Strider, Space Danger - Space Marines' Graveyard, Douglas Strider",
"text": "Annual Pack Includes:\nGift pack - SOL30000 a terran year (equivalent to SOL2500/month over the duration of the adoption).\nPersonalised certificate.\nStand-up photo-portrait (14.5 x 200m) of your soldier.",
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"ref": "2013, Gordon R. Dickson, Naked to the Stars, Simon and Schuster",
"text": "Cal cut wide in his shoulder jets with a short burst and slid in to earth under a tree so like a terran cottonwood it was hard to tell the difference. The trees on windy hillsides on Lehaunan had been warped and strangely twisted […]",
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"ref": "2014, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin",
"text": "Hobbs' Street smelled odd, damp and sweet, but that wasn't due to the residents here but to an odd mutation of a terran honey fungus that had spread throughout the moon colony, running its mycelia through air vents, electrical ducting or […]",
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"ref": "2014, Don Pendleton, New Orleans Knockout, Open Road Media",
"text": "The NASA engineer admiringly dubbed the complete project a “terran module,” comparing it favorably with the best thing yet developed in lunar modules. Bolan liked it, though he was a bit awed by the electronic capabilities of his new warwagon.",
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"text": "[…] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).",
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"ref": "2008, Ron Sanders, Legerdemainia, page 71",
"text": "As they approached the steps the Klee-shaes could hear a terran favorite over the great building's Public Address system—it was Neil Young warbling Keep On Rocking In The Free World, but a Fartian host, misunderstanding the moment, transferred the track to Mollify.",
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"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2013, Doug Strider, Space Danger - Space Marines' Graveyard, Douglas Strider",
"text": "Annual Pack Includes:\nGift pack - SOL30000 a terran year (equivalent to SOL2500/month over the duration of the adoption).\nPersonalised certificate.\nStand-up photo-portrait (14.5 x 200m) of your soldier.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2013, Gordon R. Dickson, Naked to the Stars, Simon and Schuster",
"text": "Cal cut wide in his shoulder jets with a short burst and slid in to earth under a tree so like a terran cottonwood it was hard to tell the difference. The trees on windy hillsides on Lehaunan had been warped and strangely twisted […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2014, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin",
"text": "Hobbs' Street smelled odd, damp and sweet, but that wasn't due to the residents here but to an odd mutation of a terran honey fungus that had spread throughout the moon colony, running its mycelia through air vents, electrical ducting or […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2014, Don Pendleton, New Orleans Knockout, Open Road Media",
"text": "The NASA engineer admiringly dubbed the complete project a “terran module,” comparing it favorably with the best thing yet developed in lunar modules. Bolan liked it, though he was a bit awed by the electronic capabilities of his new warwagon.",
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