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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Simulation verus reality
Summary: Calculating nonexistent storms.
Keywords: On being all wet.
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Date: 15 Apr 89 12:46:26 GMT
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In article <5244@cs.Buffalo.EDU> rapaport@sunybcs.UUCP
(William J. Rapaport) writes:

 > I was thinking of the sort of computer simulation of a hurricane that
 > the weather service might construct, not a machine that produces a
 > hurricane artificially.  The latter ought to get you wet; the former
 > wouldn't.

And then there are the occasional storms projected by the weathermen
which fail to materialize.  In that case, one could say it's the
National Weather Service that gets wet.   :-)

--Barry Kort