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Arthur had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him
with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not
quite, entirely unlike tea. The way if functioned was very
interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant
but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a
spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent
tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste
centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down
well. However, no one quite knew why it did this because it
invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not
quite, entirely unlike tea. The Nutri-Matic was designed and
manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation whose
complaints department now covers all the major land masses of the
first three planets in the Sirius Tau Star system.
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