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1 posted on 02/13/2012 2:58:05 PM PST by Harlan1196
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Ping! for later
2 posted on 02/13/2012 3:02:32 PM PST by hope_dies_last
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>>The Total Perspective Votex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.
To explain—since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation—every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition, and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.

The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.

Trin Tragula—for that was his name—was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.

“Have some sense of proportion!” she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.

And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex—just to show her.

And into one end, he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other, he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain, but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

— The HitchHiker’s Guide<<


3 posted on 02/13/2012 3:05:00 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
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And all of this from “nothing”. Just a big boom created by “nothing”.


4 posted on 02/13/2012 3:07:09 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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Impressive.


5 posted on 02/13/2012 3:10:28 PM PST by TomGuy
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I’ve seen this(in some form) many times, but still interesting.


6 posted on 02/13/2012 3:13:38 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Harlan1196

Thanks for the post. This is excellent.


11 posted on 02/13/2012 3:32:13 PM PST by Sawdring
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My mind can’t even begin to comprehend the expanse of the universe. If I had one wish it would be to have a glimpse of what lies at the very end of that blackness we see at night.....assuming there is a far wall to it all.


12 posted on 02/13/2012 3:36:10 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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Very cool, thanks for posting.


13 posted on 02/13/2012 3:37:06 PM PST by Maceman (Liberals' only problem with American slavery is that the slaves were privately owned.)
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Really cool, but with all of the typos (e.g., “sattelite” and “becuase”) I have to wonder about the accuracy of the substantive facts.


17 posted on 02/13/2012 3:48:30 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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Man .4chan is a real murky place every virus known to man I won’t even pass by it on the internet without getting out my ten foot pole!!!!!


18 posted on 02/13/2012 3:49:38 PM PST by Lees Swrd ("Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well")
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Mind=blown!


21 posted on 02/13/2012 4:16:31 PM PST by LibertyLA (fighting libtards and other giant government enablers!)
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bttt


25 posted on 02/13/2012 4:48:57 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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Cool!! And a nice quote from Hitchhiker’s Guide too!!

If there’s one thing we know about the speed of light, it gets here too early in the morning!!

—Alfred E. Newman


42 posted on 02/13/2012 7:05:16 PM PST by Bon of Babble (The Road to Ruin is Always Kept in Good Repair)
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That was fantastic! Thanks for posting


46 posted on 02/13/2012 8:19:08 PM PST by dfwright (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left (Eccl. 10:2, NIV))
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That was awesome! Thank you for sharing this!!!


48 posted on 02/13/2012 9:29:38 PM PST by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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