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- From: pjmorse@unix.amherst.edu (Polar Bear)
- Subject: Re: Come on stupid idiots!
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:31:27 GMT
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- Has anyone ever seriously looked at traffic lights? I mean, the odds must be
- more or less even that it be green or red, but has anyone else noticed that
- they seem to come in spurts? For instance:
- A) there is a temporary light about 1/4 mile from my house at home.
- My brother claims that whenever he is driving, it is red, and whenever I am
- driving, it is green. I KNOW it is only green when he's in the passenger's
- seat...
- B) I recently ran a road race in which the city police temporarily
- stopped traffic for the race. The stop lights still worked, though, and every
- one turned red just as I was about run through that intersection.
-
- These are just examples. I see two alternatives: complete and random stoplight-
- probability anarchy, or an omnicient and omnipotent Stop Light Fate.
-
- Any other opinions?
- --
- Polar Bear i won't be a monkey in anyone's zoo
- pjmorse@amherst.edu and i won't get fazed, whatever you do
- pjmorse@unix.amherst.edu "hit him again, he's crazy"
- -ride
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