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

Okay...... I would love to hear from anyone's point of view on how they would define life.

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Anyway, one of my lecturers defined life as 'that which temporarily defies the third law of thermodynamics'.

I've no idea what that is though.

thanks for the welocme, I put a Q there too now.....

Shouldn't you be revising?

*chuckles*

incidentally I'm married to a hydro geologist

I saw . Well, someone was bound to put 42.

Not at this time of night.

You might know what an unconformity is then.

yeh, unconformity is cool just like unassimilateable....

I see that 42 answers quite allot on threads of any nature, if doubt 42 it right?

I meant to say, if in doubt, 42 it....*ahem* bad spellik n punct...

work..home..work..home life never head of that

Awwww....you poor thing

oops missed spelled it i had just finished work to be fair tho so i could be forgiven for that

didnt douglaas write that 'life is like a bowl of cherries', and if you fire a high velocity weapon into something and it goes 'eeeek' then thats probably life!! If it just leaves a nasty red stain on the carpet then its more than likely to be a bowl of small round fruit?

did he

Life is highly overrated. We each value our own lives too highly, because we do not realize what our lives truly are. We are an anomaly, a mistake in the universe. If one gene had not ended up where it did, we would not exist. We are only here for 70 or 80 years, and the truly lucky ones are here for less. As soon as we are gone, we are forgotten, which shows how miniscule we are in the grand scheme of life. We are pompous assholes, who think too highly of our own self worth, and don’t realize what it is that is really going on. Why do we fear death so much? From the day we are dropped, we are constantly told that life is a gift. A pretty cheap gift, from the looks of it. There are 6 billion people in the world, nobody will miss one less. In fact, it will be welcomed, seeing as how we have both overpopulation, and a shitty economy at this time. If life is truly a gift, it is up to us what to do with it.

Pedantical--The condition of being alive.

Biological--That which is capable of reproduction with modification, converts external resources to energy, incorporates of external resources into itself and its decendants, consists of basic self-sufficient units, and contains within itself the equipment to preform these functions.

Philosophical--The condition of existance.

Adamsian--The subject of the question to which 42 is the answer.

or was it DR and Quinch?