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From: pagiven@drutx.UUCP (GivenP)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: The End Of The Universe
Message-ID: <680@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 15:33:50 EST
Article-I.D.: drutx.680
Posted: Tue Feb 25 15:33:50 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Feb-86 05:34:54 EST
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This newsgroup was raging with a  rumor  about  a  future  particle
accelerator  capable of producing energies high enough to cause the
present universe to change state (i.e., the known laws  of  physics
would change).

I must, regretfully, inform the net that  such  machine  must  have
been  built, because I have observed that basic fundamental univer-
sal laws have begun to change.

I was standing before a vending machine, quarter in hand,  deciding
which  product  to buy therefrom.  As I was placing the coin in the
slot, it slipped from my hand, fell upon the floor, rolled in  lazy
circles, and came to rest beside my feet.  It obviously should have
rolled underneath the vending machine, down the  nearby  drain,  or
into the floor vent, never to be seen again.

Murphy's Law (The probability of anything  happening  is  inversely
proportional  to  its  desirability),  known to physicists from the
ancient Greek times to be  one  of  the  fundamental  laws  of  the
universe,  has been violated.  The fabric of the space-time contin-
uum has been torn asunder and the end is near.

See you on the other side.

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 Paul Given             {ihnp4, houxe, stcvax!ihnp4}!drutx!pagiven
              AT&T Information Systems Laboratories
 11900 N. Pecos, Rm 1B04, Denver 80234              (303)-538-4058
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