Drop by drop, fluids are pumped
Through the tubes, through the pipes
From the city below
To the machines above
To what purpose?
No one knows.
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Plic, ploc, plic, ploc, les pompes pompent
Les fluides de la citée basse
Vers les machines des nuages
Pourquoi ? Personne ne le sait.
The great multi-eyed squids of Altair V never bother to become amphibious. They rather build more aqueous tubes of transportation and give underwater respiratory apparatus to their guests. Is it pride? Laziness? When asked about, they always elude the questions and keep referring mysteriously to the ways of the Great Resonance. Strange people indeed, but they made wonderful glass-work, used thorough all the galaxy. Mostly for spaceships.
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Les Pieuvres Géantes multioculaires d’Altair V n’ont jamais pris la peine de devenir amphibies. Ils préfèrent construire d’immenses tubes aqueux de transport et offrir à leur invités d’ingénieux systèmes de respiration aquatique. Est-ce de l’orgueil ? De la paresse ? Quand on leur demande, ils éludent les questions et mentionnent mystérieusement la Grande Résonance. Un peuple bien étrange, mais inégalé dans le domaine de la verrerie. ils font d’excellents hublots, utilisés dans quasiment tous les vaisseaux de la galaxie.
– MOUHAHAHA! With the power of Science, I will rule them all!
– That is not science.
– Excuse me?
– What you are doing is just fooling around, at best fiddling.
– But…but… I’ve got labcoat, tubes, equations and everything!
– That is lab work, not science.
– But I’m experimenting, mixing stuff! creating something anew!
– Then it’s art.
– What is science, then?
– Careful observation, reasonable skepticism, formulating hypotheses and only then confronting them and testing them with rigorous experimentation.
– Sounds complicated. And then you’re done ?
– No, then you repeat.
– Until when?
– You never really stop. Everything can and must be reexamined to the light of new facts.
– Hum… Ok, I get it.
– So are you ready to make Science?
– What? No! By the power of Lab work I will rule them all! MOUHAHAHAHA!
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