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KCTV5.com - News 2009
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Obama Hails 'Improbability' Of D-Day Victory Bank Of America Shakes Up Its Board For Many, Fear Of Layoff Is Big Motivator Slain Abortion Doctor Eulogized As Generous Teen Nearly Drowns In Kansas River
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Eric Wesley's "Improbability of Intentionally Creating Shock, Part II" (2011) is a big, double "exaggerated rubber band" (as the gallery describes it), attached on one end to the far wall of the capacious front gallery and on the other to a chrome-and-steel square "wheel."
Shock, Light Therapy With Life Thrown In Peter Plagens 2012
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Improbability being inversely related to the capacity to accurately envision an outcome.
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In the way that “Infinite Improbability Drive” sounds sexy!
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Unless you are a particle physicist (for whom nothing is as it seems anyway), you're not likely to meet as many convoluted and unpredictable ideas and storylines as in Philip K. Dick's science fiction (the requirement, of course, is that it all still has to make coherent sense, otherwise we could just switch on Douglas Adams 'Improbability Drive and publish the outcome).
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Matt Smith's appearance was yet another Douglas Adams reference: based on the scene where the sperm whale, brought into existence by the Improbability Drive, has just a few minutes to make sense of the universe before realising that he is about to crash into the planet.
End of a Tennancy [Review: Doctor Who: The End Of Time. Spoilers] Sci-Fi Gene 2010
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