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It's just that the invention is so simple/obvious to us that I wonder how they got a patent and no prior art was found.
I have not read GEB; perhaps it's a different tortoise you are talking about.
[1] http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/sunfact.html
EDIT: If it was 3 times hotter than the centre of the Sun...yeah, the Earth might be done for at that point.
Then again, he did win somewhere from 90% to 98% of their vote [1], so the assumption is based in truth somewhere.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2229225/Presidential...
EDIT: Obviously using a VPN isn't illegal (in most first world countries, anyway), but the actual access of Hulu from an unlicensed area is what I mean.
To threaten defendants, they also stack each single charge one on top of each other to make 5 cases look like a maximum of 125 years too.