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Originally posted by apprentice:
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But what's the question?

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:

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Originally posted by apprentice:
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But what's the question?

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Originally posted by Orguss:
I'm going to attempt to hijack this thread and turn it into a science discussion.

In the novel (dunno about the movie or television series--never saw them), a musician named Hotblack Desiato has a car parked at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. It's black paint is so deep that it's hard to maintain focus on it and touching its nearly frictionless surface is difficult. Well, apparently, scientists on Earth have developed a coating very similar, called Vantablack:

https://youtu.be/BkGHwrq2Eho

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Originally posted by dsiets:
A time waster:
The Game

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"And as he drove on, the rain clouds dragged down the sky after him for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him and to water him."

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“There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.

``Make 'em dry,'' is the instruction buried somewhere in the collective national consciousness, ``make 'em rubbery. If you have to keep the buggers fresh, do it by washing 'em once a week.''

It is by eating sandwiches in pubs on Saturday lunchtimes that the British seek to atone for whatever their national sins have been. They're not altogether clear what those sins are, and don't want to know either. Sins are not the sort of things one wants to know about. But whatever their sins are they are amply atoned for by the sandwiches they make themselves eat.”