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Originally posted by CrevanReaver:
I just want to say this is some really interesting and informative stuff you've posted AnonymousPoster, you rock!



The translator microbes make a lot more sense now.

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Originally posted by Misguided By Voices:
...today is cut and paste day on FFF.

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excerpted from http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A37766
The Babel fish is small, yellow, leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.

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