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Author: John WrightJohn Wright Date: Jul 12, 2008 14:54
Steve Firth wrote:
> googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> On Jul 8, 1:15 am, %%ste...@ malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:
>> >>> I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
>>>
>>> It also featured in the Red Dwarf episode "Tikka to Ride".
>> It's in Aeon Flux as well, innit?!
>
> Well spotted.
>
>> Germany, I think, somewhere in or near Berlin?
>
> Ooh no. Neither Germany nor Berlin but it does owe its existence to one
> of "our" Germans. But it was "Made in Britain" when Britain did world
> class engineering and it's still a world class facility run by the best
> team in the world.
When the "two ozones" debate was in full swing I was working at a
British research facility that really did lead the world. It was
overtaken as the world's best last year by something it took six DOE
laborotories in the USA to achieve...
--
John Wright
"What would happen if you eliminated the autism genes from the gene pool?
You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and
socialising and not getting anything done!" - Professor Temple Grandin
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