From: Michel Jullian > > > 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." > I missed the Civil Service Politics part, that explains it. > > > > 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? > I don't know. My calculator hits 9.99999^99 at around 2^334 IOW, if you start out with a penny and double it every hour for about 334 hours, you can get filthy rich in a couple of weeks.
Fred > > Michel > > > or about 1.00 Google. > > > > Fred > >> > >> Michel > >> > > > > > >
