HUTCHBACK
Anyway, er, at 200 seconds the Universe was 1 billion degrees centigrade. That's hot.
DR. NOSTRUM
That sounds like a guess as well.
HUTCHBACK
No, they know all this from..
DR. NOSTRUM
They don't know it, they don't know any of this stuff.
HUTCHBACK
No, this stuff they do know
DR. NOSTRUM
They don't know it, they don't know it, they just..
HUTCHBACK
They can measure it!
DR. NOSTRUM
N.. Well...
HUTCHBACK
They can see it in the background radiation and the movement of..
DR. NOSTRUM
They don't know it. The sum of all human knowledge is worthless.
HUTCHBACK
Hmm.
DR. NOSTRUM
I think that is incontestable.
HUTCHBACK
Incontestable means you can't contest it.
DR. NOSTRUM
Exactly. The sum of all human knowledge is worthless. I'd say that is incontestable.
HUTCHBACK
(not rising to the meagre bait) Oh. That's quite nice (shows pamphlet) an artists impression of a black hole.
DR. NOSTRUM
Whereas, the sum of all cat knowledge is even more worthless. So we're very high in the worthlessness stakes, that's what I would say.
HUTCHBACK
Mm.
DR. NOSTRUM
We're probably higher up in the worthlessness stakes than (pause) ants, or, (pause) chickens. I imagine we're quite high up there, but maybe not, maybe dogs know more about shit than we do.
HUTCHBACK
They know a lot about shit. They're experts actually.
DR. NOSTRUM
Yeah, I didn't mean to slip into that kind of patois. Teenage patois...
HUTCHBACK
(puts on Jamaican accent) Ye-ah mon. Patois.
DR. NOSTRUM
...In any way suggesting that I might be...
HUTCHBACK
Down with the kids.
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