----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Sparber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:41 PM
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> OTOH. 2^8005551212 power is the toll-free information number
> for the galaxy.
> Watched "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" lately? :-)
I have read all the five books, several times, my favorite trilogy of
four
:)) The original in English, not the French translation which is
pathetic.
Douglas Adams was an absolute genius, it would have taken a genius to do
a
good translation I guess.
From T-Rex down to the ugliest creepy-crawly land or
marine creatures ever shown, none are as ugly as some of those
shown in the movie.Is it earthling vanity? :-)
I missed the movie (will have to rent the DVD) but from your description it
must be the Vogons :)
Book 1 Chapter 5:
" Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz was not a pleasant sight, even for other Vogons.
His highly domed nose rose high above a small piggy forehead. His dark green
rubbery skin was thick enough for him to play the game of Vogon Civil
Service politics, and play it well, and waterproof enough for him to survive
indefinitely at sea depths of up to a thousand feet with no ill effects.
Not that he ever went swimming of course. His busy schedule would not allow
it. He was the way he was because billions of years ago when the Vogons had
first crawled out of the sluggish primeval seas of Vogsphere, and had lain
panting and heaving on the planet's virgin shores... when the first rays of
the bright young Vogsol sun had shone across them that morning, it was as if
the forces of evolution had simply given up on them there and then, had
turned aside in disgust and written them off as an ugly and unfortunate
mistake."
BTW, 1.01^8005551212 power is 9.99999999999^99
Mmm I doubt it, more like something close to 1+0.01*8005551212=80055513
isn't it?
Michel
or about 1.00 Google.
Fred
Michel
