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		raldi on June 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Today's real life is yesterday's science fiction. How about when Arthur Dent tried to explain tea to the ship's computer, and it was baffled that he wanted the flavor of boiling water poured over leaves and mixed with a fluid squirted out of the bottom of a cow?

rajasharan on June 27, 2011 [–]

The computer was not baffled but took up the whole ship's computing resources to make the tea there by causing the ship to go out of control.

On a second thought yeah it was baffled.

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