It also is probably what a number of reporters said earlier this month when they were permitted to see a machine that will be sent to the planet Mars.

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The match was held in New York City and was billed as the contest that would ultimately answer the big question: what is the most intelligent thinking machine on the planet?

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We needed a picture of the planet taken by the machine that now bears the great man's name.

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It also did so after enduring 50 cycles in one of the most hostile environments known on the planet: a domestic washing machine.

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