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14 Sep 2006, 2:52 pm

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You used the past tense like it's already happened. I beleive a black hole is the result of an ongoing calculation. I'm not stickin' around for the answer.


47?

And if you get the reference you win a cookie :P


People... The answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything is 42. I was assuming you took 42 which is the answer and added 5 to it for some reason. I was trying to find the significance of the number 5 somewhere in this thread.



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14 Sep 2006, 2:54 pm

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Save yourself some time and divide the whole thing by zero. It's considered dangerous and as a result it's outlawed, so don't get caught.


Contrary to popular belief, you can divide by zero. The problem is the answer is not something the human mind can comprehend in this plane of existence.



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14 Sep 2006, 3:17 pm

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...So,I may have the desire to learn everything about plants,how they look and how to use them for healing(a major interest for years)but no matter how hard I tried(have about 20 books about topic)I still cant differentiate between similiar plants(like face blindness for me)or remember what is used for what.........


Wow, I'm the opposite with plants. I often recognize related plant families, even before I've fully identified them. I don't know much latin, except scientific names and it drives me up the wall when the Latin names make no sense, like calling purple plant "glauca" because that's as blue as this pink flower ever gets. aaAARRGGGHHH!

This tendency to classify plants causes me some embarassment, because I don't think of myself as a botanist (label maker, geneologist, mortician), I'm a horticulturalist (nurse, dietician, personal trainer, psychologist, whisperer). There's a big difference to me. Special interest? ... sure.


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14 Sep 2006, 3:20 pm

Dalebert wrote:
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Save yourself some time and divide the whole thing by zero. It's considered dangerous and as a result it's outlawed, so don't get caught.


Contrary to popular belief, you can divide by zero. The problem is the answer is not something the human mind can comprehend in this plane of existence.


Better cool it or we're gonna get busted.


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14 Sep 2006, 3:21 pm

2 looks like 7 without the foot....my bad.....on the other hand ...I guessed her answer...so I'm keepin the cookie(sorry Dalebert...)AS GW Bush has proved...you dont have to be right,just first to say any answer...then get to change the question randomly to fit your answer....I think you said 42 because you hate freedom,hate America and just want my cookie...Its like WW11 all over again....


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14 Sep 2006, 3:40 pm

DirtDawg.....when I was reading your interests(I am a little dyslexic,dah)I saw Gynocoligist next to mortician...and all of a sudden.....it all made sense....then I reread it and decided,your still a mystery.

Thats cool about the plants....I always thought my life would have been easier(love the sciences but bad at them)if we were forced to learn Latin in school like the old days(when teachers could whip students.....I kid, because I care)...Guess even the scientist who knew latin didnt care about making my life any easier....


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14 Sep 2006, 3:42 pm

Thats weird.. in my printing of the book it was 47.. I remember it clearly because I thought it strange one of the "questions" proposed was 6 times 7 which didnt equal the total.

Guess it was a typo :P


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14 Sep 2006, 4:16 pm

yeah 7 is near 2 on the keyboeard.
42.....
when im 42 im gunna aspify the world.



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14 Sep 2006, 4:32 pm

My school teaches Latin, and we all have to do the same subjects, so it's compulsory. Ego linguam latinam amo, sed mala in ea sum.

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Contrary to popular belief, you can divide by zero. The problem is the answer is not something the human mind can comprehend in this plane of existence.


Well, yeah, like most stuff, for instance the 4th dimension (not counting timespace), the square root of negative numbers, the zero-eth potence of zero...

I love Kant's idea that there's a real universe that's very different from the one we percieve. Because of our simple minds we shape an image of it easy enough for us to comprehend.



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14 Sep 2006, 4:34 pm

hay are you following me?



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14 Sep 2006, 4:38 pm

Hes not I am though dont look behind you :)


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14 Sep 2006, 4:39 pm

Um, I'm a female, my real first name's Paula... And no, I'm not following you, at least not consciously.



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14 Sep 2006, 4:44 pm

Erp sorry I really should check profiles first more often :P


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14 Sep 2006, 4:44 pm

dont worry paula, most women say that to me...it is an unconcious thing..it is this "thing" i have ...dunno how to desribe it really...coolness like the fonz.........HEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY!! !! !! !



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14 Sep 2006, 4:46 pm

Dalebert wrote:
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Save yourself some time and divide the whole thing by zero. It's considered dangerous and as a result it's outlawed, so don't get caught.


Contrary to popular belief, you can divide by zero. The problem is the answer is not something the human mind can comprehend in this plane of existence.


Hmm I was sure we covered away to divide by zero in calculus III. Though a quick
skim of my cal book tells me I do not care.



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14 Sep 2006, 4:46 pm

WHAT DO U MEAN GIRLY?

CORECT - A MUNDO