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With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once
build a nuclear balm?
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Linux Science: 605 of 622 |
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand
miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and
still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no
such thing as progress.
-- Ransom K. Ferm
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Linux Science: 606 of 622 |
Without life, Biology itself would be impossible.
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Linux Science: 607 of 622 |
Xerox does it again and again and again and ...
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Linux Science: 608 of 622 |
Xerox never comes up with anything original.
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Linux Science: 609 of 622 |
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some
rays and became a tangent ?
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Linux Science: 610 of 622 |
"Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context."
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Linux Science: 611 of 622 |
"Yes, let's consider," said Bruno, putting his thumb into his
mouth again, and sitting down upon a dead mouse.
"What do you keep that mouse for?" I said. "You should either
bury it or else throw it into the brook."
"Why, it's to measure with!" cried Bruno. "How ever would you
do a garden without one? We make each bed three mouses and a half
long, and two mouses wide."
I stopped him as he was dragging it off by the tail to show me
how it was used...
-- Lewis Carroll, "Sylvie and Bruno"
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Linux Science: 612 of 622 |
"Yo, Mike!"
"Yeah, Gabe?"
"We got a problem down on Earth. In Utah."
"I thought you fixed that last century!"
"No, no, not that. Someone's found a security problem in the physics
program. They're getting energy out of nowhere."
"Blessit! Lemme look... <tappity clickity tappity> Hey, it's
there all right! OK, just a sec... <tappity clickity tap... save... compile>
There, that ought to patch it. Dist it out, wouldja?"
-- Cold Fusion, 1989
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You are a taxi driver. Your cab is yellow and black, and has been in
use for only seven years. One of its windshield wipers is broken, and
the carburetor needs adjusting. The tank holds 20 gallons, but at the
moment is only three-quarters full. How old is the taxi driver?"
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