Why the world spins.

[mahayana]

LoudLou- Are you working on the story that explains 42? Your penguin tale is most excellent, I keep going back and rereading it.

I'm not a numerologist, but I do remember that ice9 is the way the world ends!

It never rains here, so we will likely survive longer than most...

By the by- Is Loud Louie and the Beans a musical group? Must be either doowop or jazz!

[trayi52]

42?? 42 what?? Polar Bears with space suits? Now I am confused, totally, of course I stay that way!!

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by trayi52
42?? 42 what?? Polar Bears with space suits? Now I am confused, totally, of course I stay that way!!

Douglas Adams (RIP) wrote a book called the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe..
In the book a computer called Deep Thought was
asked the meaning of life......It 'thunk' for a
while and said "42"..

[mahayana]

Thanks for explaining the literary reference...hope this won't stop LL from tying it it in with the penguins!

Another thing I've wondered about is animal intelligence...buddhists often refer to "all sentient beings."

How can we hope to communicate with aliens, when we haven't even learned to speak with other lifeforms here?

How do you say 42 in penguinese?

[trayi52]

Now I know what answer to give to somebody that ask me a question I don't know, 42 penguins and 42 polar bears.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by mahayana


Another thing I've wondered about is animal intelligence...

Oh, by far they are more intelligent than we are....

They don't worry, they don't drive, they don't do a bunch of things that us hoomans kill ourselves trying to accomplish...

Look at it this way....

My cat stays at home, gets fed, gets all of his needs taken care of....all he has to do is meet me at the door around 6:15 in the afternoon.

I get up, drive to work and worry about almost everything for
they 17-18 hours I am awake....

I can tune my car, use Excel on the computer, balance my check book and read a book...

My cat sleeps all day and is loved when I get home...

Who's the intelligent being in MY household?



42????


42 cats?????

Think of the paranoia while hanging around with cannibal penguins!!!

[catland]

Originally posted by RICHARD
My cat stays at home, gets fed, gets all of his needs taken care of....all he has to do is meet me at the door around 6:15 in the afternoon.

Your cat meets you at the door?

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by catland
Your cat meets you at the door?

yeah, don't other cats do that???


lol, when i pull the car in the driveway he's there "yelling " before I make it around the corner!

I yell at him, "Who's your daddy?" And he answers, mmmmeee YOU !!!!!!

Of course the neighbors think I am crazy, but my cat is 10 times smarter than their kids...I never had to potty train Eddie!!!!

[LoudLou]

Originally posted by mahayana

By the by- Is Loud Louie and the Beans a musical group? Must be either doowop or jazz!

LOUD Louie: One VERY LOUD Corgi + The Beans: 2 Meezer Kitties, Mocha Bean and Garbonzo Bean = LOUD Louie and The Beans.

LOUD Louie would prefer a country band.
Mocha Bean would be Jazz.
Garbonzo Bean is a Total 80's Rocker!

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by LoudLou


LOUD Louie would prefer a country band.
Mocha Bean would be Jazz.
Garbonzo Bean is a Total 80's Rocker!

Music does make the world go round, don't it?

[LoudLou]

Originally posted by mahayana
LoudLou- Are you working on the story that explains 42?

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definit...211501,00.html


42

42 is the number from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
from which all meaning ("the meaning of life, the universe, and everything")
could be derived.
A BBC radio script based on Adams' book contains the following lines:

("Cave man" lays out following sentence in Scrabble stones:
"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?")
Arthur: Six by nine? Forty-two? You know, I've always felt that
there was something fundamentally wrong with the Universe.
(Faint and distant voice Base thirteen!
For the literal-minded and those unfamiliar with terms like
"base thirteen," this is a number system in which the number 10
is equivalent to our more familiar decimal 13. A base-13 number 42,
therefore, is the same as four 13s plus 2, or decimal 54.
So "six by nine" (six times nine) or decimal 54 is, in base 13, 42.
For the mystically inclined, 42 in base 13 is the same as 110110 in binary (base 2).
This could mean almost anything, and many Adams fans have spent untold hours
discovering all of the places where the number "42" pops up.
For example, there are many mentions of the number in the Book of Revelation.
Others have made a game of finding 42s, such as these:

The angle at which light reflects off of water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees.
Two physical constants in the universe are the speed of light and the diameter of
a proton. It takes light 10 to the minus 42nd power seconds to cross the diameter
of a proton.
The sum of the ordinal alphabetic positions of the initials (SPG) for Stan (P.) Gibilisco,
an oft-published science and technology writer, is equal to 42 (S=19, P=16, G=7).
A barrel holds 42 gallons.
(It should be noted that all of these 42's are base 10, not base 13.)

Some other interesting and Funny reading
http://www.intellectualloafing.com/d...everything.htm

http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_An...and_Everything

http://yudkowsky.net/tmol-faq/miscellaneous.html

Although I really like Miss Meow's theory that the meaning of life is chocolate... I think you are on to something there!

[Miss Meow]

Originally posted by LoudLou


Although I really like Miss Meow's theory that the meaning of life is chocolate... I think you are on to something there!

I just read your post, and phew, the whole chocolate thing is far easier for me to digest (oops, bad pun!)

[LoudLou]

Me too! My brain hurts now ... must go find chocolate!

[Relentless]

Wow lots of posts to my pointless topic!

[trayi52]

Hey we like pointless topics, sometimes they get to be a lot of fun. Like mahayana talking about penquins in spacesuits walking around on the moon, I could just picture that, and it struck me as very amusing. There was one thread on here about cone breeders, it was sooo funny. Thanks Relentless for the topic, come up with some more good ones.