It's not right to make fun of Melville's comically absurd inability to take decent pictures.
She's a hyper-advanced humanoid machine, not a photographer.

There's no human building that can survive without maintenance. Roots are stronger than concrete.

Ther is no tool that is not also a weapon; and no human that would wield it as one.

The beauty of the universe and the beauty of what we can accomplish within it are two related but separate things, and the separation matters.

Straton wrote that the most common error we commit is to think that ideas determine reality, when in fact the opposite is true. Ideas follow from material conditions; belief systems are formed to explain and justify the way we live. We did not have kings because we believed in the mandate of heaven; we believed in the mandate of heaven because we lived in monarchies.