《Outpost Ultimate Question 》作者：- Mike Resnick【EPUB】

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The Ultimate Question* * * * * When I was growing up (said Argyle) I was always curious about things. I pestered all three of my parents with endless questions, and finally, in exasperation, they bought me a computer, which I promptly christened TAM (for The Answer Machine). In the beginning, it was capable of answering almost all of my simplistic queries. Of course, it couldn't tell me why all the elevators arrive at once, or why no adult can open a child- proof bottle, but it was pretty good on some of the more common questions. For example, like any kid, I'd ask why the sky was green. And TAM would spew out an answer in a nanosecond or two, to the effect that _my_ world's sky was green because all the continents were blanketed by green grass and the oceans were covered by an exceptionally fast-growing and disgusting form of algae, but that skies actually came in all colors, including blue, purple, violet, indigo, yellow, red, orange, mauve, puce, magenta, and licorice black. Or I might ask "How high is up?", always a favorite among