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

Footnote:
Various interstellar messaging companies suceeded in adapting improbability physics to there stamps.The upshot of this being that however improbable, your message/letter would actually get to its destination quite possibly before you actually sent it.
This opened a whole new genre for pan galactic lawyers to exploit.
However as there bills for services rendered actually arrived before they rendered any services, cheques were gratefully recieved and bills were put in the bin.

Footnote:Footnote:
Quite soon after the PanGalactic Lawyers Institute became destitute,needing funds they sold many of their members into manual labour camps.(they didn't last long)

Footnote:Footnote:Footnote:
Soon after the re-introduction of the sub-etha postage stamp all became well.


Blarty - keeper of the orange sash / whats this 42 all about then what was the question ?

AAAARRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!

MY BRAIN!!!!!

How can the probability of anything be greater than 1, greater than absolute certainty?

Plus, how can you square infinity, when infinity is not a number, just a concept. Squaring infinity is like squaring an Elephant, or your Lunch...

(okay, Lunch and Elephants aren't concepts, but I like to think...)

If a train leaves London at 12:45 for Birmingham and travels at an average speed of 60mph, and, at the same time a train leave Birmingham for London and travels at an average speed of 75mph, and both trains will cross at 13:45, how may passengers in total will get to Leeds, and what colour will they be, and what shape?

(... that it points out the absurdity of squaring a concept, or squaring fashion... that's better, I should have used squaring fashion)

What Is fashion Squared....

Fashion squared is Art, of course

I think if you tried to square an elephant you might run into a messy situation.


As far as the train is concerned I think it would be much more interesting if the second train was leaving from Birmingham, AL in the US then the onsets would be


Passengers to Leeds 12% of those trying to get there. This is all dependent on seats being able to become flotation devices
57% will be slightly blue
13% will be very pale
27% on the purple side
3% slightly greenish brown

78% will be flatter then when they left
12% will become pear like
9% will turn completely round like the blueberry girl from Willie Wonka's chocolate factory
1% will turn into super models and work for fashion mags

Why this Luddite fixation with things making sense? Logical argument has no place in a multiverse where everything is possible, and I'll prove it with logic, dagnammit!

Everything is possible and all possible things occur in the multiverse, therefore the probability of the probability of anything being greater than 1 is itself 1. QED.

Anyone for elephant squares?

I'd like an elephant sandwich, but I appear to be out of bread.

I think I have some bread in my trunk...

*small popping sound as a hole opens up in the side of mac's brain,out of which his brain jumps out,screaming*

And what is it then that. . .then that. . .that then. What exactly is "then?" Is it what was once my "now," so now it is your "then," now? If that be the case then, as I write this now, which is earlier than any time you might read it then, when you read what I have written now is a less "then" than your "then" is to you during your "now," which is a "will be" to your "now" which is a "then" to my "once was." So then, given this logic as sound then, to have your "then" as a "now" and my "now" as a "once was," never can we assume that anything that "once was" "will be" "now." Now then, what was said was that the "now then" "will be" "now" "once and for all" earlier or later than the "then" "now." Depending on your point of view "now" and "then."
So now and then, my point of view has it, that a way of life "then" or even "now" will eventually be a "once was" and passe to all involved both then and now and probably ever will be. Given that, "then" and "now" being earlier than "once was" and "will be" ever, but later than "now and again" and "there once was a guy," any thing that happens in the now will be "then" and then to the "now" and "will be," but a "will be" to the "then" and "once was." Again point of view dependent on what was then a "now" and what even earlier than the now was the "will be." Unfortunately like all good Zen laxatives that to must pass then, and the result is a "then" and a "once was" to the earlier "now" and "will be." Once and for all.

I couldn't have said it better myself, Aaron, except in that infinity of universes where I actually did.

Or not say it nearly as well, in those other infinite universes

AMEN.

(if my brain's gonna hurt like this, I might as well give it a good reason)

Cheer up - there's an infinity of universes out there where this stuff makes sense, and another infinity where you don't get hangovers.

But thankfully we aren't goldfish in any of these universes. A goldfish's memory span is a tiny 3 seconds long. When it thinks it's hungry it only ever remember's being hungry, when it's content it only remembers being content, and when it rememberes only dying while it is dying, in this span of resignation in any of the infintely larger universes out there, from a goldfish's it doesn't matter to squat. . .or it does in other universes, or it won't in other universes, or it will in others. . . I have gone crosseyed.

The problem is that we ARE goldfish in an inumerable amount of universes. And therefore we are also llamas in a few too! And not only that...there are some universes where we are llamas and time is running backwards!! So...if we get in inter-universal contact with our other 'llama-selves' we can ask them with the help of some sort of llama-english communication device we can, in effect, ask them about our future!!
We could just ask our 'human-selves' in another univers, but llamas are a lot more co-operative when it comes to communication to alternate universes.

The problem is that we ARE goldfish in an inumerable amount of universes. And therefore we are also llamas in a few too! And not only that...there are some universes where we are llamas and time is running backwards!! So...if we get in inter-universal contact with our other 'llama-selves' we can ask them with the help of some sort of llama-english communication device we can, in effect, ask them about our future!!
We could just ask our 'human-selves' in another universe, but llamas are a lot more co-operative when it comes to communication to alternate universes.

given your last post. . .in all universes and this one especially. . . I think I have wet myself. Truely a figment of universal statistics

If everything is possible, it could be that you all err.

And how is it Ruppinger that we would err?