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Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
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for all the good they are

"Dare right they will," muttered Lupov." It all had a beginning in the original cosmic explosion, whatever that was, and it'll have an end when all teh stares rundown. Some run down faster than others. Hell, the giants won't last a hundred million years. Then sun will last ten billion years and maybe teh dwarfs will last weo hundred billion for all the good they are. But just give us a trillion years and everything will be dark. Entropy has to increase to maximum, that's all."

This is a paragraph cited from the short story THE LAST QUESTION by Isaac Asimov. And could you tell me what the short sentence means here?
  

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You have a few typos. eg " Darn right they will," eg when all the stars run down This is a paragraph cited from the short story THE LAST QUESTION by Isaac Asimov. And could you tell me what the short sentence means here?

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You have a few typos.
eg "Darn right they will,"
eg when all the stars run down

This is a paragraph cited from the short story THE LAST QUESTION by Isaac Asimov. And could you tell me what the short sentence means here?
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Eh.... I know the meaning of 'run down'. I just can't understand the meaning of 'for all the good they are' in which the word 'good' seems having no reference.
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Eh.... I know the meaning of 'run down'. I just can't understand the meaning of 'for all the good they are' in which the word 'good' seems having no reference. I thought you meant the short sentence in the text, so I looked for a short sentence.
'For all the good they are' is a phrase, not a sentence.

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Got it, thank you!
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