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From: rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung)
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Subject: Re: Do You Have an Interesting Formula?
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Date: 14 Mar 88 19:36:45 GMT
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Summary: No life in the universe

In article <1536@pixar.UUCP> hb@pixar.UUCP (H. B. Siegel) writes:
>I'm collecting interesting and/or amusing "formulas" for eventual
>posting.

  My favorite proof (is that okay?), from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy (paraphrased, adapted, and mangled, no flames please):


1. Space is infinite.

2. Since space is infinite, there is an infinite number of planets in space.

3. However, not all planets are inhabited. Therefore, there is a finite number
    of inhabited planets in space.

4. The number of inhabited planets over the number of uninhabited planets is
    as close to zero as all gets out (n/infinity). Therefore, the total
    number of life forms in the universe is zero, and anyone you meet is
    the product of a deranged imagination.


						--R.J.
						B-)

P.S. Woops, didn't read your note about e-mailing until now...Oh well, I
needed to post a joke anyway.

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