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From: "pugh jon%e.mfenet"@LLL-MFE.ARPA


We are back to _The Last Question_ by Issac Asimov.  A great short story.
The universe runs down to just the Cosmic AC which is still munching on 
it's last asked question, "How do we reverse entropy?"  It figures it out.
Are we surprised?  It is a classic of the short story variety.  Almost as 
good as the short short where they power up the world's largest computer
and ask it, "Is there a God?"  It responds with, "There is now!" as a
lightning bolt fuses the off switch.  Great stuff.

                                        -- Jon Pugh --