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In article <3339DCB8.12BF@sprintmail.com>, marksimpson@sprintmail.com wrote:

}OK,
}Here's another one for all to ponder.
}In order to travel from point A to point B, one must first travel 1/2
}the distance.  In order to travel half way, you must first travel 1/4 of
}the way, etc., etc., etc. In mathematical terms, the denominator
}approaches infinity and we know that you can't travel an infinite
}distance in a finite amount of time, therefore all motion is impossible.
};-)
}
}Mark Simpson
}Paralyzed (in theory)

But that doesn't really matter, because for the moment at which I read
this message to have arrived, half the time after you wrote it had to have
elapsed, after which half that quantity had to pass, after which half the
remaining difference had to come, and so forth. Thus an infinite gulf of
time must separate your posting this message and my (apparently thoroughly
imaginary) reply --in other words, subsequent to your writing this
message, nothing else can ever happen. Your post might as well have
started a THERMONUCLEAR WAR or put HITLER into power. Good going.

Omar

-- 
"I could be living the best and happiest of all lives if only I were
not a fool."
 - The sorrowful youth Werther, in _The Sorrows of Young Werther_ by
J. W. Von Goethe.

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