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HUMOR: Fact vs. Theory

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Wed Jun 14 20:00:49 1995

To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 19:49:41 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>


Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 16:17:49 MDT
From: rmerz@redwood.hac.com (Rulane Merz)

A co-worker told me this one.

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A puzzled science-fiction fan once wrote Isaac Asimov:

  "Superman is said to fly faster than the speed of light.  Yet 
   physics says this is impossible.  Which is right?"

Asimov replied:

  "What Professor Einstein says is theory; what Superman did
   is fact."



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