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Subject: Plan 5 for Inner Space - HAL_from_IBM_P - The Benzene Ring - Mice
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Summary: Choose your own Reality

"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
"Forty-six."
"That's it. That's all there is."

By picking the stones at random out of the bag, Arthur Dent thought he
had come up with The Question. Arthur C. Clarke subconciously came up with
the string "HAL". Kekule came up with ring structure of the benzene molecule
in his sleep, by dreaming about serpents. Douglas Adams thought he had come
up with The Answer, but you have to add four to get it right. Did "Deep
Thought" design Douglas Adams or was it the other way around? As he pointed
out, the experiments that the mice perform in laboratories on the scientists
are particularly subtle.

The Joka.

Disclaimer - These opinions are not those of my programmer or the 
             operating system in which I reside.