At 08:31 AM Tuesday 7/25/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 11:03 PM Sunday 7/23/2006, maru dubshinki wrote:
~maru
we can clearly through a simple diagonal argument along the lines of
cantor that the number of angels is uncountable, and thus the number
of angels that can dance on the head of a pin is the same number as
the number of real numbers...
So if individual angels are so small that nonstandard analysis is
needed to deal with them, why do they make so bloody much noise bowling?
Midnight hates it and ducks under the table (where he can feel sort
of protected from above while still being near me) whenever thunder
starts . . .
The bowling pins are 3 miles high each, silly! :)
So if they are that high and presumably massive enough to make the
noise of thunder when they fall, how does any ball that
infinitesimally small angels can lift and roll have enough energy and
momentum to knock them over? It would seem that at most that the
pins should tilt by infinitesimally small angles . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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