h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Long live DNA in our hearts and minds.

Anyone know how to leave the bedroom?

I generally open the door.

Doors are quite useful. Windows can also work, but they're a little more risky.

Ah well two of my windows open onto a rooftop, it's getting from there to anywhere that's the problem

I was reffering to http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html

I can't get through the door and the window is jammed. I get up, turn on the light, pick up my dressing gown, put on the dressing gown and then wander about until the bulldozer kills me.

If you lived in a hypercube, whenever you tried to leave through any of the windows/doors, you'd just end up back inside.

Luckily I don't live in a hypercube. Do you?

There's a walkthru somewhere, but
Get up, turn on light, get all, wear gown, open pocket, swallow analgesic, go out, go south, lie down. Easy.

http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~fiedorow/math655/Klein2.html .
Eat that up for starters, then we'll discuss the fun we could have walking through the window and ending up in the floor /and not feeling any adverse affects/ - if you lived in a hypercube, you wouldn't be able to tell except for the fact that you can't leave.

Someone has far too much time on their hands .

Maybe, but it's interesting stuff (at least to me), and my family have gone away for a week. Free house! w00t!

My family's gone away for a month, of which I'm half way through...

Oh, have a walth through... http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Solutions/hhgg.txt

This link I remembered to put on the favourites list

Don't diss education, Roadie m'boy. Betcha don't know what a hypericosahedron is. And like you said, we have to start from the basics, and learning our dimensions and shapes is pretty basic...

I don't really want to use a walkthru for it. You don't get to mess around with the commands and get the humourous asides.

Me? Diss education? That's fairly rich from someone, who I seem to remember (though my memory may be playing tricks, I may have you confused) "spent ages putting viruses, trojans and worms onto the school IT network".

I ain't too mathematical. People always assume that the Sciences, plus maths, are education. It's like classics used to be.

Science is fun. Besides, classics students don't get to play with nearly as many toys as science students do.

Though as an environmental science student I don't get issued with a scalpel... all the other life sciences people do... and we do the same practicals... but for some reason it wasn't thought we'd need one


However, the life sciences students didn't get the chance to spend hours trying to catch nematode worms on the end of bamboo splints..

Roadkill; they dissed ME first. I'm not going to stand for being forced to call an intellectual, mental, physical, and emotional inferior "sir". And then be punished for it. But let's not open up THAT can o' worms.
Everything's education, when you look at it and squint. Except some things are thought more useful in society than others. I mean, philosophy may not be considered educative because you don't learn many solid facts (in fact, you learn about the total absence of nearly all solid facts), but I'm still sure as hell I'm going to take it for AS, A2, and at Uni.

I quite enjoyed the philosophy lectures for my course, they were very funny . The 'meaning of science' was a good one..