About half of the global population was currently living in New Zealand, Madagascar, and, strangely, Florianópolis, Brazil. - Dennis E. Taylor

We ran some image interpolations. It looks like he’s attaching busters to an ingot with cables.

Their lives were now less than a footnote in history. As gone, as utterly forgotten as any random individual from the Middle Ages. No longer even a ripple in time, except to the extent that I could keep their memories alive. I sighed to myself. It seemed sometimes that life was nothing more than the accumulation of emotional baggage — memories, regrets, and lost opportunities.

the f-word. Turned out he was an expert in its use as a verb, noun, adjective, adverb, article, and several forms of punctuation.