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From: Androcles on 4 Aug 2010 06:41

"Excognito" <stuartbruff(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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On 4 Aug, 10:18, "Androcles" <Headmas...(a)Hogwarts.physics_z> wrote:
> "Excognito" <stuartbr...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:389c7806-b732-447f-9a65-5abd5a800f2b(a)s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
> | On 4 Aug, 09:08, "|-|ercules" <radgray...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> | > "spudnik" <Space...(a)hotmail.com> wrote...
> | > > so, what is your hypothesis as to the mechanism,
> | > > percieved a sweetness -- *o* said,
> | > > Let'em eat sweet?
> | >
> | > Yeh, but let's dress it up a little.
> |
> | > At the moment of *creation* (snicker) about 10^-50 seconds before the
> Universe
> | > was the size of a match head, trillions of googleplexes
>
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/googolplex
> : the figure 1 followed by a googol of zeros
>
> A googol isn't Google (snicker).
>
> | > of parallel quantum futures
> | > searched far into the future, 99.999......9% resulted in boring
> Universes so the
> | > one dimensional datastream Mind Of God (snicker) selected the values
> of
> all the fundamental
> | > constants so you could get a value meal at Maccas before 1am which was
> sweee eeet.

> | That was just a side-effect. The real reason the Universe exists is so
> | that the sound of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine could be heard in the
> | skies above Southern England some 70 years ago - now That's sweet.
> |

> That was just an important prelude.

That would be Walton's Prelude (and Fugue), you're referring to? :-)

No, Ralph Vaughan William's Variation on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
(which is sugar to Walton's saccharin and a variation on your engine theme).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y7nJL1hpUU


> The real reason the Universe exists is so
> that four Rolls-Royce Olympus engines could create a sonic boom in the
> skies
> above Southern England from the sweetest plane ever built, some 35 years
> ago
> - now that's REALLY sweet.

I take it you're referring to the 593 variant? The only ac referred to
without use of either the definite or indefinite article. True
Presence and should bring a huge grin to the face of every human with
a positive integer IQ or the vaguest semblance of a soul,

.... but doesn't quite have that spine-tingling, throat-constricting
quality that a Spitfire has, particularly when performing a BofB fly-
past.
==============================================
I was living in Pittsburgh when I witnessed BA's inaugural service to
that fair city. To my horror, Concorde came down the glideslope to
within fifty feet of the runway with the undercart retracted. After
inspection the captain performed the most beautiful go-around
imaginable as he opened up the hungry throats of those four engines
to swallow air and deliver it at full thrust, informing the neighbourhood
of BA's arrival and releasing the lump from my larynx to be replaced
by the joy in my heart. No fanfare could be better. It is a wonder that I
did not suffer cardiac arrest as I saw the plane I had help to build
demonstrate full bragging rights to Americans, the erstwhile champions
of boast. They may have their Mustangs and B52s, they cannot match
a Spitfire and a Concorde.

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