When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.

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        You’ve never been close to one of those clankers, huh? The constant whining of every servo motor is like a bunch of small, high pitched groans in tandem.

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      Muscles can be either voluntary (choosing to lift a chair) or involuntary (a beating heart) as well.

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      Along these lines: a major league baseball batter must predict where the ball will be before it leaves the pitcher’s hand. There is literally not enough time for the neural signal to get from the eyes to the brain, be processed and then an impulse sent to the arm muscles to swing the bat in the time it takes for the ball to travel to home plate at 95mph.