Clarence Thomas (1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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2000s, (2008)
“A ramrobot had been the first to see Mount Lookitthat. Ramrobots had been first visitors to all the settled worlds.”
First lines, Ch. 1 : The Ramrobot
A Gift From Earth (1968)
Context: A ramrobot had been the first to see Mount Lookitthat. Ramrobots had been first visitors to all the settled worlds. The interstellar ramscoop robots, with an unrestricted fuel supply culled from interstellar hydrogen, could travel between stars at speeds approaching that of light.
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