"The Beatles did not generate a youth culture at all; merely a youth audience of passive teenage (mainly female) fans who became superfluous when the group stopped touring Britain in 1965".
The disrupted genes may represent neutral events (i.e. genetic drift), caused by genetic bottlenecks that reduced the impact of selection, or because the mutated genes became superfluous when the bacterium was cultured on artificial media.
In laughing at this story, he says, we are releasing the psychic energy that we had summoned to feel pity for Twain's brother, but that became superfluous when we heard the fantastic last part.
The ledger, which the city displayed as recently as 1980, became superfluous when record keeping for the bonds was transferred to computers.
Most of the anabolic machinery, including ribosomes and chloroplast, become superfluous when nutrient deficient conditions cannot sustain cell growth; those structural components would be targeted for degradation and nutrient recycling.
Territorial rights become superfluous when content is in a digital cloud and can be downloaded anywhere instantly.
The seed material then becomes superfluous and can, because the fuel is liquid, be flushed out of the reactor along with the fission products generated when 233U atoms split up.
In both cases, the psychic energy normally used to do the repressing becomes superfluous, and is released in laughter.
Way out back of beyond in Kenya, when you're five hours from Nairobi, in the back of a Toyota Land Cruiser, riding through the Rift Valley, where baboons are the only traffic hazard, then bumping through scrub and mud and dried-up riverbeds, past zebra and ostrich, toward the haven known as Shompole close by the Nguruman Escarpment, the word "street" becomes superfluous.
If its usefulness lies in the promotion of ongoing creative thinking, then, once that thinking is finished, the paper becomes superfluous.
