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

Back to normal now

Here anyway

I'm glad you said normal and not average.

The average resident of any sizable country has one uterus and one testicle, yet exceedingly rare is the person with that exact combination .

"one uterus"!?

Who's walking around with two uteri?

Not me

So how do we get an average of one uterus?

The way I heard that factoid was that the average person has one testicle and one breast.

Of course, you have to take into account those that actually have one or fewer which brings that average down just a bit below one per person, as there are so few triple breasted or testicled people walking around to bring the average back up to one.


Testicled is a word, right?

I'm sorrty, I meant one ovary.

Should I go back to bed?

If that is an average - just how many are walking around with more than one of each?

I believe half of the citizens are walking around with either two testicles or two ovaries - on average

I have a question: why are we talking about this on a thread belonging to the Communications team?

I know we're on a Topic Drift initiative today, but really...?

...non-sequitors, responsive non-sequitors...

"why are we talking about this on a thread belonging to the Communications team? [Dmitri]

For my own part, I am too deeply confused and/or myopic to notice what the actual subject line is.

I just can't understand why nobody has asked me yet what the other half of the citizens are walking around with

(see post 29)

The principle of handling one's statistics in whole stoiochiometric sets is one that many people have never heard of and many can't grasp.

Its similar to the quantum principle: no fractional quanta allowed.

Approximate quantum theory hasn't caught on? Why not?

Nothing hard to understand about the principle.

Split a uranium atom, for example, its not a uranium atom anymore.

Instead the remnants are several other things.

Meanwhile, taking it from post 16, I have noticed, till recently, smileys often don't immediately post, instead, the alphabetical portion of the smiley comes up temporarily highlighted in blue, like a hyperlink, before converting over to the appropriate emoticon image.

Its been a while since I've seen that though.

Is a string piece for an indefinite number of players known as a quantet?