erlsmith@uokvax.UUCP (04/28/84)
#N:uokvax:9500004:000:2204 uokvax!erlsmith Apr 27 01:20:00 1984 (buy him books, send him to school, and all he does is play on the damn computer....) please be patient, my apple has trouble with upper case. and i hope i'm putting this in the right place, but i've got a few questions i need answered and like the man said when you need help fuck the manual, go ask someone. ok, what happened to streaking? why do authors write sequels? does anyone really know how to use a slide rule, be honest? will lennon & mccartney be considered the shelly and keats of our time? was poe really that weird or was it he was just another junkie? why else would he have written quote the raven nevermore.... where have all the flowers gone? why do homo sapiens have pubic hairs? what really are joy sticks....? are bio-chip based robots going to replace what we consider to be man? how come when most people talk of time travel, they say you can go into the past but not the future, because it hasn't happened yet.. or has it? this one really puzzles me. lets consider a number line representing what we normally consider time. with a positive/negative x and y coordinate, with the origin constantly shifting forward "time". why would it be so impossible to venture off of the path that the time is traveling on? would the grandfather paradox hold? (if i went back in time and killed my grandfather - could i do it, or would the constraints of time prohibit me from doing so?) how about holmes? he snorted coke.. could he have really been that smart? was freud really a sex craved maniac? why don't we study the works of virgil in school anymore? (i had to take latin to find out about him). knowing that we are the outcropping of the baby boom, why are there 30 some odd new stains of social diseases? is dnd really devil worshiping? what are blacks holes,(in reality)? "and not a hooker on 39th street." ergonomics has been around for an awful long time.. so how come people are just coming up with these ergonomically designed chairs... and one last one (yea..yea..yea) is there a philosophy of sex? or does that topic revert back to psychology and sociology? questionably yours, eric l. smith !ctvax!uokvax!erlsmith p.s. does life really exist after college?
rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (05/03/84)
<> >ok, what happened to streaking? Supplanted by other forms of exhibitionism, such as posting stupid answers to questions on the net. >why do authors write sequels? (1) More money. (2) It's easier than finding a new idea. (3) It lets them use all the ideas that the publisher edited out of the first volume. >does anyone really know how to use a slide rule, be honest? But of course! On the other hand, does anyone really know how to use a calculator? >will lennon & mccartney be considered the shelly and keats of our time? No. Such accolades will go to people such as the fellow who conceived the "Where's the beef?" routine - certainly one of the most quoted of our time. >where have all the flowers gone? Underground, still waiting for the @#&%$%^!!! snow to stop. >why do homo sapiens have pubic hairs? To give meaning to the phrase "beating around the bush". >what really are joy sticks....? See above, under pubic hairs... >are bio-chip based robots going to replace what we consider to be man? Yes. They will not, however, replace woman. >how come when most people talk of time travel, they say you can go into >the past but not the future, because it hasn't happened yet.. or has it? Time-travel stories about traveling into the past invariably end up coming back to the present, which is future to the past, so they do consider both. It's easier to get the plots for travel to the past; you just use a history book. >how about holmes? he snorted coke.. could he have really been that smart? But consider Napoleon. He lost in the end...could he really have been such a great general? >is dnd really devil worshiping? No, it is trivia-worshipping. Not even the devil himself could follow it. >what are blacks holes,(in reality)? (1) Evidence that physicists have a sense of humor. (2) An embarrassing but necessary consequence of relativity. >ergonomics has been around for an awful long time.. so how come people >are just coming up with these ergonomically designed chairs? For centuries into the past, people have had enough sense not to stay sitting down so damn long that chairs became a problem. >is there a philosophy of sex? No. It's too simple. There is only one question ["Sex?"] and the correct answer is already known ["Yes"]. >p.s. does life really exist after college? If you mean "after graduating from college", yes, of course (sic). Where do you think college professors come from? -- ...Relax...don't worry...have a homebrew. Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303) 444-5710 x3086
matt@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Matt Crawford) (05/04/84)
>>what are blacks holes,(in reality)? >(1) Evidence that physicists have a sense of humor. (2) An embarrassing >but necessary consequence of relativity. No, black holes are a perfectly reasonable consequence of general relativity. The embarassment is the singularity at the center. Luckily, cosmologists do not embarass easily. ___________________________________________________ Matt Arpa: Crawford@ANL-MCS.ARPA Crawford UUCP: ihnp4!oddjob!matt