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* 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, but it's telling.
* In [[Linguistics]], it's more often John and Mary.
* Named tropical storms (typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones) are usuallybased named usingon a sequential list of given names which is, replaced every year., There'swith a different list for each region;. theThe 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 thathis 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 had mostly or entirelyused female names (as meteorologists originally used the names of their sweethearts) but; more recent practice has been to alternate betweenalternated gendersgender on each successive storm (so Alex, Brenda, Charles, Diana, Elmer, Francesca... or a similar pattern).
** A similar pattern of choosing an alphabetically-sequential stringnaming of namesseries was used circa-1883 for a seriesstring of Atlantic and Pacific Railroad stops where steam trains took on water across the Mojave Desert. The first was "Amboy", now a ghost town on the former US Route 66. Steam trains originally stopped at each sequential pointfollowed (from west to east:) Amboy,with Bristol, Cadiz, Danby, Essex, Fenner, Goffs, Home, Ibis, Java, and Klinefelter). toMost obtainof water;these mostpoints are now abandoned.
** Similar alphabetically-sequential naming patterns have been used for versions of software; Ubuntu uses names of animals this way, while the Android OS used to use names of foodstuffs (beginning after 'B' as the base, "Cupcake", "Donut", Éclair", "Froyo", "Gingerbread", "Honeycomb", "Ice Cream Sandwich", "Jelly Bean", "KitKat", "Lollipop", "Marshmallow", "Nougat", "Oreo", "Pie", ending just before this reached 'Q').
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