Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology Path: newsfeed.slurp.net!uunet!chi.uu.net!dfw.uu.net!ffx.uu.net!world!mmcirvin From: mmcirvin@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin) Subject: Re: Kibo in space! Sender: mmcirvin@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin) Message-ID: X-Face: (?W%^()W#v)$D::#5q#!;XTvB9;qH <7gejnk$h37$1@pale-rider.INS.CWRU.Edu> <7gil4v$adf$1@gaia.ns.utk.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: ppp0b087.std.com Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die X-Newsreader: MT-NewsWatcher 2.4.4 Lines: 21 Xref: newsfeed.slurp.net alt.religion.kibology:244067 X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) In article <7gil4v$adf$1@gaia.ns.utk.edu>, dbd@panacea.phys.utk.edu (David DeLaney) wrote: >Oh, that's _easy_ to solve; make them fractal. That way they can get all >snuggly and huggly and all fit into the two-dimensional space that's all >that's available in many branes. [They haven't upgraded to Brane for >Windows 3D, with optional Kierkegaard attachment, because they think it's >buggy. Go figure.] Use the powers of Perspective to make the set of dancing >bears for a particular bear fit between it and the next bear. Eventually >your brane will be covered exactly in dancing bears [the topological term >"denumerable shires" is trying to break in here, but I _won't let it_] and >you'll be ready to play Pokemon! I think that after even *thinking* of a paragraph like this one, you are required by law to have a 10-minute drum solo followed by 19 minutes of aleatoric keyboard improvisation while beams of colored light stab through dense clouds of pot smoke and clips from the 1989 ACM SIGGRAPH exhibition play on the big round screen. -- Matt McIrvin http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/