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14. "involved expenditure of enormous amounts of energy"

Mon Jun 16, 2014, 08:13 PM

Jun 2014

Your point? Things like supercomputers, airplanes, automobiles, powerplants and moon landings don't come out of stir-sticks and rubber bands.

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