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Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by jacquesm on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:25PM (#36870508)
This is a dancing pig. The thing to appreciate is not how well it dances but that it dances at all.
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Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by paulddraper on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:26PM (#36871129)
Hahaha perfect analogy
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Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by m463 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:07PM (#36872298)
https://xkcd.com/2798/
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Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by mabbo on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:31AM (#36875948)
This is one of those lines that sounds like it came from a book of quotations, but I can't seem to find any source beyond this post.
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Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by Name_Chawps on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:01AM (#36878835)
I've heard it as: It's like a dog riding a skateboard. It's not impressive how well it rides, it's impressive that it rides at all.

But I can't find the original source or anything.

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Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by beambot on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:35PM (#36880518)
Riff on this: When your product is a monkey reciting Shakespeare while standing on a box in Central Park, you don't start by building the box.
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Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by jacquesm on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @05:09PM (#36885070)
That's funny! I think I may have been guilty of box building a couple of times. Nice boxes... but still... no monkey.
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