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| 4 | 307 | "I do not View more quotes about understand">understand any of this," said the older woman. |
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| 4 | 304 | "One does not know the full nature or extent of the technology at the disposal of the alien life forms on such a world," said the young man, "but it is doubtless not only powerful but sophisticated and widely ranging. |
| 4 | 305 | For example, they may have, we might suppose, unusual, though it seems not perfect, surveillance capabilities. |
| 4 | 306 | Should they detect a breach of one of their ordinances, say, one forbidding certain varieties of weapons to humans, it seems they are capable of imposing swift, unmistakable and effective sanctions". |
| 4 | 307 | "I do not understand any of this," said the older woman. |
| 4 | 308 | "You understand it on some level, surely," said the young man. |
| 4 | 309 | "Yes," she admitted. |
| 4 | 310 | "On such a world what do you conjecture would be the nature of human culture?" he inquired. |