[5758] in Central_America
New quotes for Mon Jan 30
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Mon Jan 30 04:01:01 1995
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 03:59:55 -0500
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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cfields (Craig Fields):
...Then, finally, just as I almost succeeded, the wrench popped out
from under my feet and went flying off into space... After a while the
wrench returned in an elongated ellipse, but though it had now become
a satellite of the rocket, it never got close enough for me to
retrieve it...
...In addition, the sirloin which I threw overboard, instead of
drifting off into the void, didn't seem to want to leave the rocket
and revolved about it, a second artifical satellite, which produced a
brief eclipse of the sun every eleven minutes and four seconds. To
calm my nerves I calculated till evening the components of its trajectory,
as well as the orbital perturbation caused by the presence of the lost
wrench. I figured out that for the next six million years the sirloin,
rotating about the ship in a circular path, would lead the wrench, then
catch up with it from behind and pass it again.
--- The Star Diaries
Stanislaw Lem
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mhpower (Matthew H. Power):
(from a ClariNet article <sex-differencesUR381_5JQ@clarinet.com>
containing an AP review of the recent report in _Science_ by Ruben C.
Gur of the University of Pennsylvania, gur@bbl.psycha.upenn.edu. This
report concerned a study of the brain metabolism of women and men. The
ClariNet article was titled "Sex Blamed For Certain Traits". The
whole article is, of course, copyright 1995 by The Associated Press.)
"Men had higher activity in the limbic system, a part of
the brain responsible for emotional processing that remains
from the era in evolution when reptiles flourished. Reptiles
have the same components, but no one would expect them to
contemplate a situation before lashing out."
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pyao (Peter Yao):
{from system: This user's .plan file is not world-readable}
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therese (Therese):
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. it is reached when
a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else
in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.
...But a man who is truly humble cannot despair, because in the humble
man there is no longer any such thing as self-pity.
- Thomas Merton
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valmik (figure it out...):
IHTFP
(it's hard to fondle penguins...)
If you have WWW access, check out:
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/valmik/home.html
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