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Fenchurch sighed. “Yes,” she said, “that was it.”
They had been staring at it for fully ten minutes before they became aware that Marvin, hanging between their shoulders, was in difficulties. The robot could no longer lift his head, had not read the message. They lifted his head, but he complained that his vision circuits had almost gone.
They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter in turn, The first letter was a “w”, the second an “e”. Then there was a gap. An “a” followed, then a “p”, an “o” and an “l”.
Marvin paused for a rest.
After a few moments they resumed and let him see the “o”, the “g”, the “i”, the “s” and the “e”.
The next two words were “for” and “the”. The last one was a long one, and Marvin needed another rest before he could tackle it.
It started with an “i”, then “n” then a “c”. Next came an “o” and an “n”, followed by a “v”, an “e”, another “n” and an “i”.
After a final pause, Marvin gathered his strength for the last stretch.
He read the “e”, the “n”, the “c” and at last the final “e”, and staggered back into their arms.
“I think,” he murmured at last, from deep within his corroding rattling thorax, “I feel good about it.”
---DNA, "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish"
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When Einstein invented his theory about space, was it about time too?
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Relatively speaking, yes it was.
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In his defense, the theory can really soak the energy from you.
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That's certainly nobel of you to come to his defense.
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"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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After all he invested a lot of energy to shed light on this massive topic.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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What very few people know is that Einstein formulating the theory of relativity was actually a direct result of his wife catching him cheating.
His first reaction was, "I can explain EVERYTHING!" and he kinda overdid it.
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rofl 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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The energy he used to create this was massive and a couple of light years ahead of his time.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Off-topic:
Today one might compare someone to Einstein, but who would Einstein have been compared to?
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Probably Newton, Faraday, and Maxwell (who were his heroes, and who heavily influenced his work on relativity, especially Maxwell).
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Yeeaahh... but Maxwell had that silver hammer... 
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I had forgotten that one.[^]
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Dang your joke trumps mine. I was going to say coffee always helps (Maxwell House[^])
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Theories are not invented, they're construed from the space between our ears, of which, for some theories, can take time (and, of course, energy).
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The Return of Tarzan
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Tarzan of the Jungle Jim Abbott and Costello sang Alison Wonderland o' Lakers have Kobe Beef it's what's for DiNero in Deer Hunter S. Thompson seedLESS or SASSafrass Tea Boone Pickett's Charge of the Light sabre it's cold in Green Bay today is the day of the Eagle flies on Fridaydream Believe you me Tarzan
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I used to have a VW, in a way: Audi A2[^]
Yes, Audi and VW are together. First, the Audi (and VW) automatic transmissions that come with the TDI motors are junk. Two of them disintegrated and are the reason why I will never buy any of their cars again.
The A2 also had a little button which (gasp) changed the motor configuration a little. you could choose between the economic (low consumption) setting and the 'normal' (more power) setting. Looks like this feature was implemented for the TDI engines all along.
Obviously a bad example of how to reuse your code.
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This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
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BMW is the brand to go, or Mercedes 
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I was just working on a software which (not named here) uses to schedule and test their motors.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Ah well okay, in this case 
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If I had free choice...[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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I'd decide for that one two 
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Too old for that! I could not get in and out of it.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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