The light, about one thousandth of the amount needed to read by, is just a start.
光线,大约是阅读所需数量的千分之一,仅仅是一个开始。
You could actually draw out a 36,000-kilometer strand or ribbon of nanotubes stronger than steel, but maybe a thousandth the thickness of a human hair.
Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury—as if saving one-thousandth of a single year's budget would solve our problems.