Subj : Re: Hey Nick
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 15:59:21

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96C7DDDCD78E23v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
> 
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>> 
>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in 
>>> news:Xns96C7D1AFD4DF83v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>> 
>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> You know you were saying about how you would trust a big U.S.
>>>>> news corporation to give the facts correctly:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2F412CBB
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> (All the cool kids use tinyurl.com)
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Well there's the problem, I'm all hot and sweaty.
>>> I did however show some adults today the thing about the
>>> internal angles 
>>> in a triangle don't add up to 180 degrees and pi isn't 3 an a
>>> bit that I 
>> 
>> (Sphere? Poincare plane? What?)
> 
> Balloon. You draw a triangle on a ballon and then inflate it. You
> then put it ontop of something circular like a mug and push the
> centre part down. I've found that it's the best way to get people
> thniking about it, cheap and simple to do as well.

That is cheating.  You introduced another dimension.

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