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I was in Denver this past week and noticed "And Another Thing" while visiting my favorite bookstore. I picked up a copy with mixed emotions and then realized Mr. Colfer was going to be reading from and discussing the book on Saturday night. Started the book immediately and finished it on my flight home. Brilliant and a nice homage to Mr. Adams. It was good to read another Hitchhiker book when I thought I never would get to again.
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I loved growing up near DC - the Smithsonian was a great no-cost trip many, many weekends...We'd take the metro downtown and pick a museum. If you had a week uninterrupted, you still wouldn't see a fraction of what was displayed.
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The article is interesting, if only for the fact that it sort of makes us think about some of the absolutes it declares...like the speed of light for instance. Our current perspective is that we can't go the speed of light, just like people speculated that you couldn't go faster than sound before 1947. We just don't have the tools or understanding to attack the problem. There's even variable in the speed of light itself. It goes 186,000 miles per second - in a vacuum; it slows down in other mediums. Things MIGHT be able to go faster than light, we just don't know HOW.
As for brain-sucking aliens, pfft. There's plenty of terrestrial examples of that here, no matter than Uncle John's Reader says no by saying, "...any creature that controls the brain of any other creature (not that any exist here on Earth)". There's Dicrocoelium dendriticum, which takes over an ant's brain and makes it hang out at the top of grass blades so a passing sheep is more likely to eat it and then spread the parasite. Ditto for Toxoplasma gondii and rats. The toxoplasma bug takes over a rat's mind and makes it act very inclined to be eaten by a cat. So, aliens that zombify you are potentially possible in an infinite universe.
...and don't get me started on time travel.
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It's a screw jack, used for the lifting of heavies.

However, if it was used in a movie to lift up a Wesley Snipes' ride in a drug-fueled urban environment, it'd be...

Screw Jack City.

(they're usually tougher than this)
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Gosh, I have bloodstains all over my furniture and I didn't have to pay any extra for them. Anybody know where I can hide a knife? And some former dinner guests?
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"Yes Mr. Waiter, while I do admit this did technically solve the problem of the fly in my soup, I think we've moved on to an entirely different situation here. I'm gonna need to see the manager."
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