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Pacific Northwest Trip: Vancouver, BC

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This is the ASRS (Automatic Storage and Retrieval System), a rather intimidating robotic storage system. In this facility, in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, it can hold 1.8 million volumes. This contains less used books, theses, records, and other material. I naturally assume the ASRS is equipped with a 40 kilawatt phase plasma riffle purely for defensive purposes only and is programmed not to kill the humans. For now...


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