# Were the starship Enterprise, the submarine Seaview and the Time Tunnel built by the same contractor?

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ACME engineers, designing during their high school lunch break, discovered that M-80 firecrackers could sustain two amperes of current before exploding. Arranging then in parallel made it possible to design higher amperage ACME circuit breakers.

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