David Woolley wrote:

In article <2eba5b2a.0412050440.58e6ea4@posting.google.com>,
myra@gsl.cz wrote:

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Subject: Re: Do we broadcast in the water gap?

Note that this is not a good translation of water hole, as it doesn't
apply to SETI@Home.  The sense of water-hole for searches close to

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This reminds me of the machine translation problems for "hydraulic ram". Translating back you can get "water sheep"!

(The famous AI example of old was for English -> Russian -> English.)


Regards,
Martin