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

Side note, NaJoPoMo pushed this thread five pages back on my Convo list.

That is amazing about the natives speaking English. It must be where the idea of Star Trek originated. Everywhere they go, the natives all speak the same language. At least Douglas explained it with the Babel fish in his story.

http://mayflowerhistory.com/tisquantum/

Excellent article.


>On March 16, they got a surprise: an Indian named Samoset walked right into the Colony and welcomed them in broken English. Samoset was from an Indian group in Maine, and had picked up a few English words from the fisherman that came into the harbors there. He informed them there was an Indian, Tisquantum, who had been to England and could speak better English than he could.<

The smallest palindromes of lengths 21 and 23 in two different bases are 5401334041404331058 and 89403957605050675930498 in decimal (and different but palindromic in base 11).

Typo. 854013340414043310458.

^^

That's clever.

The worlds single most popular fruit for eating out of hand is the orange.

Grapes miss taking the top honors since despite a larger agro production, many grapes are cultivated exclusively for wine.

There is some discussion about which came first; orange the colour or orange the fruit, linguistically.

The fruit's name was the precedent. The English term came from either the French "pomme d'orenge" or mor likely the Spanish "naranja", which itself came from the Arabic "naaranj".

The 'n' likely was transferred to the

...indefinite article, as per 'apron' and 'adder', originally 'napron' and 'nadder'



Damnit! Perview is my fiend!

...'perview' is always chancy on Pliny, throws away one's copy more often than not...

I was in Ripley, but I was using my tablet on a sketchy WiFi connection.

I can usualy recover my copy in that kind of case, if its merely the connection having dropped.

I've lost my post just by switching tabs in Chrome on my tablet.

42isms,

The number of Tom Corbett's training squad from "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" is '42 D'.

The 42nd hexagram of the "I Ching", is 'I' or 'Increase'.

Donald Duck's middle name is "Fauntleroy".

Daffy Duck's middle names include "Dumas, Horatio Tiberius, Sheldon, Armando" and the initials "O." and "J.".

You only need 39 digits of Pi to calculate the circumference of the known universe to within the diameter of a single hydrogen atom.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/how-many-digits-of-pi-do-we-really-need/

How about to calculate the diameter of the universe to within the diameter of the elementary quantum, treating the elementary quantum as a discrete particle, the vacuum field, space itself, as a quantum gaseous medium composed of elementary quanta?

The elementary quantum equivalency of the hydrogen atom or the neutron, both of which can be treated as lower density bubbles in a higher density medium, is a mole of elementary quanta.