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  • The tipping point, when friction's stranglehold is overcome, sees the cable snake and flare like a cracked bullwhip and wrenches the clippers on to their side.

    Deadheading 2010

  • Even supercomputers capable of calculating what goes on inside stars or modelling the most complex characteristics of the atomic world slip up on friction's intricacies.

    New Scientist - Online News 2009

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