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Re: Happy 50th birthday Apple

From John <Man@the.keyboard>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.vintage
Subject Re: Happy 50th birthday Apple
Date 2026-04-18 20:47 +0100
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:40:10 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

>John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
>
>[...]
>>  10**25 particles in a human body can not be scanned by
>> anything less than a gamma-ray burst that would volatilise the human
>> and bore a hole in the ship a yard wide from the emitters past the
>> hull. The beam would go on to fry a moving circular spot on the
>> surface of the nearby planet. The storage-in-the-buffer would take a
>> bandwidth of truly astronomical magnitude and more computing power
>> than could be created were the observable universe full of chips made
>> from single particles. The reconstruction would take a similar beam of
>> death-rays and years, probably more years than the current age of the
>> cosmos. 
>
>...but apart from that, is there any reason why it couln't be done?

 Wait ...
 
 I've had time to eat, sleep, get tired again, wake up, have a cup of
tea and digest the reply above ...

 It's a jesting response, yes?

 You were gently jocularly pointing out that I have been a bit
fannish, geekish, off-topic and irritating and that I should have
stopped at 50,000 pages in each of eight hundred posts, yes? Or maybe
*before* that? 

 Oh. Right. You are correct. When I get into teacher mode, I really
like it and can't stop. 

 It's one of many, many reasons why I was never employed as a
full-time teacher and yet could teach friends, family and colleagues.
It is both a flaw and a .........

 Oh, bugger ... I'm doing it again, aren't I? :)

                                                        J. 

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