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To: SunkenCiv
...named their daughter graphene by now...

I knew a dork who named his daughter "Altaire", after that computer.

51 posted on 07/30/2010 6:20:42 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

He got extra geek points, since the Altair computer was named after a planet in a Star Trek episode which happened to be rerunning as the inventor of the Altair was sitting around trying to think up a name for it. ;’)


53 posted on 07/30/2010 4:49:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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