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Images => Life, the Universe & Everything Else => Topic started by: Thomas G on November 08, 2015, 23:10:45

Title: 42 and it's brothers and sisters
Post by: Thomas G on November 08, 2015, 23:10:45

 “The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story.” Douglas Adams (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.fan.douglas-adams/595nPukE-Jo/koaAJ3tPBtEJ)
Believe it or not but the thread comes to... conclusions.

Let's have some fun and show 'em numbers - any of the obscure type present in a certain type of literature will do.

Title: Re: 42 and it's brothers and sisters
Post by: Thomas G on November 08, 2015, 23:12:45

Seen on one of Color Lines cruise ferries going from Kiel to Oslo. Unfortunately I do not remember which. But the answer is

Title: Re: 42 and it's brothers and sisters
Post by: elsa hoffmann on November 09, 2015, 07:06:14

sort if inverted. The wall was white-ish

Title: Re: 42 and it's brothers and sisters
Post by: Thomas G on November 09, 2015, 22:01:34

Summer of 69 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f06QZCVUHg)? I remember that song well...  8)

Title: Re: 42 and it's brothers and sisters
Post by: Jacques on November 09, 2015, 23:25:00

This is supposed to be a real time update of the world population numbers, I did not notice any reductions so I suppose more people are being born than are passing away !
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5717/22892901772_24324da5b3_h.jpg)

Title: Re: 42 and it's brothers and sisters
Post by: elsa hoffmann on November 10, 2015, 01:21:07

Jacques - interesting!
here's the stats on births and deaths (and a whole lot others in real time too)
http://www.worldometers.info/

Title: Re: 42 and it's brothers and sisters
Post by: Thomas G on November 10, 2015, 23:20:48

Jaques - this is a nice one. I like it due to it's screen pixelized graphic style.
Elsa - interesting. Much more new bikes than cars.

I extend the topic an hope it'd broaden the stream of photos:

Starting with the well known numbers we post photos of any number which comes with a story, a meaning or an afterglow of personal rememberance.

Title: Re: 42 and it's brothers and sisters
Post by: Anirban Halder on February 04, 2016, 17:21:31

Ground Zero, 2006.


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