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- From: liebea@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Adam Fred Lieberman)
- Subject: Re: Trafficlights (was: Come on stupid idiots!)
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <C18C4G.EJH@unix.amherst.edu> <kjl38fb@rpi.edu> <1993Jan26.003329.5735@scorch.apana.org.au>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:25:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.003329.5735@scorch.apana.org.au> jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn) writes:
- > ...
- >Then If you go and work it out it turns out that coz the average
- >population of the universe is Nothing, No one inhabits any of the
- >planets and therefore there is no need for traffic lights so that
- >means that everybody that YOU meet and every traffic light u come
- >accross is a product of a derranged imagination...
-
- Not so. Your result is the result of arithmetic error. Just because
- you don't have enough precision to divide by infinity and get the original
- value back when you multiply by infinity doesn't mean there's nothing there.
- >
- >All Ideas in this message are completely my own... (except for the
- >main body of the message, the header is all mine!! and so is the
- >sig..) but anyway if your lost I suggest u read `Restruant at the End
- >of the Universe' by Douglas Adams...
-
- I think you got it from the back of a cereal box--and don't try to use
- a time machine to prove you came up with it first. (If you do have a time
- machine though, I'd very much appreciate if you'd let me use it. There's
- so much I should have already done...)
-
- -Adam
-