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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Alice and Bob really are quantum -- a professor at the University of Washington has used two separate remote cameras, named Alice and Bob, to test the theory of non-locality and its potential for time travel, by attempting to receive a message before it's sent. The experiment hasn't yielded results so far{{when}}, but it's telling.
* In [[Linguistics]], it's more often John and Mary.
* Named tropical storms (typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones) are based on a sequential list of given names, replaced every year, with a different list for each region. The lists will be re-used at half-dozen year intervals, but with the names of historic "worst" storms periodically retired. That'd make Hurricane Andrew the first (A) tropical storm of the North Atlantic hurricane season in his respective year. Q, U, Z are not used; a particularly bad season (such as 2005 with Dennis, Katrina, Wilma) can exhaust the entire 23-name alphabetical list, after which the Greek alphabet (Hurricane Beta...) is pressed into service. The original lists used female names as meteorologists proposed the names of their sweethearts; more recent practice has alternated gender on each successive storm (so Alex, Brenda, Charles, Diana, Elmer, Francesca... or a similar pattern).
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