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

As I have indicated, I am in the process of writing Entries up that are a little mathematical in nature that are related to my particular story. 'Researches Involving Researcher Numbers' (A57439849) is now up and running. I started a discussion thread for that Entry, so I would ask that all remarks related to that material be placed in that thread. I am still going to try to get into an Entry or two the really most interesting stuff this week, but I may go into next week with that. Next on my agenda is to clean up, and when I find the book on neutron stars that I mentioned a while back, I'll have something interesting to say about astronomical stuff.

"Supernatural eh?

My glasses survived my mugging on Wednesday without any damage, despite being knocked into a busy road at rush hour.

I'd call it miraculous except you've got to wonder what sort of god would protect my glasses but not my face"

That's is so real, I was crossing the road at a pelicon crossing when the green man was lit and had to jump back to safety as I was nearly run over by a speeding truck.

Vandals had turned the warning sign to be facing the wrong way and it was actually a red man.

I was lucky.

So what I want to know is, how this luck manifested itself or am I just plain lucky all the time? I was in an air crash and survived; no not really I was the only one in the aircraft and it was only a little bump.

I recently bought a very cheap camera; but because of chromatic aberation 'purple fringing' I bought a very big one: and have tried revisiting sites I photographed to do them better.

But I'm a bit confused about this;

http://images51.fotki.com/v1547/photos/1/1529911/7775854/Topofthehill-vi.jpg

Since the place does not exist anymore, only a couple of months since it was taken. There is a fence, an old weather worn fence next to the path.

I can't get far because I haven't got a driving license, and it is Winshill, my village.

It isn't Winshill the houses are too posh, so it isn't supernatural anymore.

It is the path next to a petrol station and adjacent to the main road to Brislincote Valley, I think. It is the absence of the road that put me off.

I have seen some 's though, one riding a rusty squeaking bicycle up the hill past my home whistling a catchy tune , another a farmer whose party trick was to blow his head off with a double barrel shotgun and another while I was in a graveyard photographing stones (asking for it) when a long silver haired chap in a black gown dragging on the ground and no shoes silently walks past. I put my posh voice on and said 'good morning,' but he didn't reply.

The thing is why did they all look the same, I put it down to madness, but I was banned from a séance by the medium when a girl started screaming, so maybe I am haunted.

I know one of my ancestors was best friends with Stanhope who was a leading member of the 'Hell Fire Club.'

Well, I've dug up "Clocks in the Sky: The Story of Pulsars" by Geoff McNamara. In it on page 161 is a description of something that *might* indicate intelligent control of celestial objects on a greater scale than the Solar System. The only other thing I know of that might be like this is the preponderance of red dwarf stars. These stars burn their fuel very slowly, and I havr the idea that they might be best for long-term support of stable ecosystems. They have nothing intrinsically to do with our world, though.

Here is a quote describing PSR J0737-3093A and B:
"The two pulsars constitute an extraordinary system. They are separated by a tiny distance, just 900,00 kilometers, or a little more than twice the distance from the Earth to the Moon. Traveling at 330 kilometers every second, the pair whip around each other every 2.4 hours. By great coincidence, not only are the beams from the pulsars both passing across Earth, the orientation of the orbits is such that it is edge on as seen from Earth."

In other words, the only known pair of pulsars that we have detected so far (with their beams passing across Earth) is coincidentally lined up so that we can study the details of pulsars in great detail (through the blocking of one by the other), and they repeat their relative positions 10 times per day, to boot. If the claim I make is that there is a God that is responsible for our Solar System's and others' creations, then it would seem that we should consider looking for planets like Earth in having the same length day and the same orbital plane (in order to get the same effect). Otherwise it either really is just coincidence here or we are really special in our creation. I really doubt the latter.

so if an intelligent designer did this with the pulsars its reasonable to assume it did it for others, so all we have to do is look at the systems that the pulsar beams pass across and we might find life there

That's another possible way of looking at it. I'm having a hard enough time figuring out how it could have been done once, though, without imagining it being done numerous times.

intelligent designer?..you mean godfather modelling quasars in his hobbyhour?

pulsars

Taff: I'm not sure if we know any way of determining pulsar beam directions except when they cross Earth. In fact, so far, it doesn't seem we do from this book.

well plotting the beam and the direction it travels over the surface of the planet should not be too hard with todays technology

stone age man managed it with our nearest star!!!!

oh..godfather is making pulsars ....what a rocket scientist he is,what a man!

The beam from a pulsar is only detected if it crosses Earth. Unless we have some other way of determining where the beam should be from a neutron star expected to be a pulsar--and we don't so far--there is no beam as far as we are concerned.

perp: I told you to please stop assuming that all men are sexist--it is sexist in itself

"where did that asteroid field go????

i put it here on my bench next to the blackholes!!

i turn around to geta few lumps of dark matter and when i turn back it's gone???

why can't people leave my creation alone!!!!!"

God is a group of entities, some male and just as many female.

I am god,and you are god ,we are all together...all in all,my say!

but...do we need to name that child?

perplexingAppolonia: What do you think of the quote from the book that I gave?