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A single speck of dust could cause a $250,000 mistake if it lands on a wafer, why all work must be done in clean rooms.
A single speck of dust could cause a $250,000 mistake if it lands on a wafer, while all work must be done in clean rooms.
And it's not acceptable to just tell the doctor that, "Oh, something looks fishy in this X-ray or this pathology slide or this retinal scan." You have to tell them, "Well, what do you think is wrong?" But more importantly, you actually have to show them where in the image you think the evidence for that conclusion lies so that they can then look at it and decide whether they concur or they disagree or, "Oh, well, there's a speck of dust there,
or, oh, well, there was a speck of dust there
We are inconsequential cosmic dust, bumping and milling about on a tiny blue speck.
We are inconsequential cosmic dust, bumping and milling about on a tiny blue speck.
Even if you're certain there's a speck on your clothes, leave it alone.
Even if you're certain there's a speck on your clothes,
Because the cosmos has become so vast, it's either easy for human beings to think of themselves as trivial specks on a trivial speck
But it's also a lot more frightening and alienating in some sense because, you know, the cosmos has become so vast, it's either easy for human beings to think of themselves as trivial specks on a trivial speck out in some misbegotten hellhole end of the galaxy among hundreds of millions of galaxies, right?
It's crazy to think we're just a small speck. Holy shit!
It's crazy to think we're just a small speck.
The spring sunrise is only two days away, then you won't have to see a speck of snow for a whole year.
then you won't have to see a speck of snow for a whole year!
Not a speck of any other color.
Pitch black is a phrase that we use to mean the darkest, darkest black, not a speck of any other color.
Strapped in my astronaut suit, in a rocket, shaking, I'm excited, I'm shooting out through the atmosphere and the image of going to the moon and standing on the moon looking at the earth as a blue tiny speck would be phenomenal.
and the image of going to the moon and standing on the moon looking at the Earth as a blue tiny speck would be phenomenal.