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We have observed that when one of your humanoid units malfunctions, the repair technicians ("doctors") are in the habit of extracting a small quantity of circulating fluid by the primitive means of a sharpened tube connected to a container.
Over time, numerous such samples are extracted, causing
damage to tissues independent of and irrelevant to the problem under examination.
This is inefficient.
The logical procedure is to extract a larger quantity of blood, on perhaps an annual basis, and keep it under refrigeration until required. It can then be used in small lots for whatever tests are required, without further inconvenience.
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Either this entire post is solely for the purpose of
making a very small joke, or it is a proposal to stock
blood samples for genetic screening. |
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If the former, I refer you to the 13th, 14th and 15th
words of the previous sentence. If for the latter,
well, yes. |
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Ah, but I made no reference to size. Merely that it
was very small. A microsecond is very small, yet it
has no size. |
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No need, you can get tablets for that now. |
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Grace Hopper claimed a nanosecond had a size. |
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The velocity of light is 2.9979 x 10^8 m/s. A nanosecond is 1 x 10^-9 of your seconds. |
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Therefore, in 1 nanosecond, a photon in vacuo travels 0.2997 metres. |
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Get a transparent tube a metre long. Pump all the gas out. Shine a laser down the long axis. That's what 3.35 nanoseconds looks like. |
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Obviously the best thing to do is to extract all of the
blood then no further testing would ever be
required. |
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<considers making reference to Nervous Norvus, then
thinks better about it> |
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Clearly a joke nust last long enough for the
maximum frequency of its sound to be transmitted
through an optimal medium, like perhaps a jello
mold. |
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It depends on how powerful the joke is, compared to (for
example) Britain's great pre-War joke, used at Munich. |
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I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two blood streams diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. |
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The stored blood ain't the same as the stuff in the human - after a little while. |
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Maybe blood should be kept under changing pressure waves and be constantly cleaned, and have small amounts of new blood added regularly. We could store the units scattered all around ready to be pierced when needed. We just have to make sure they are labeled correctly. |
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