Subj : Re: Hey Nick To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 18:04:45 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > Nick wrote in news:Xns96C8659F5D8DFndtcm@ > 68.1.17.6: > >> weirdwolf wrote: >> >>> Jim Larson wrote in >>> news:Xns96C7DDDCD78E23v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >>> >>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>> >>>>> Jim Larson 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. >> > > Well it's not my fault nobody was using it, it was just curled up in the > corner just out of sight. Makes matching up the wallpaper edges a right > bugger when you come to do the redecorating though. > Now Nick just think, if you were a perfectly flat ant only able to crawl > on the surface of the balloon, have I added another dimension? > See this is why I am no good at maths, I started reading stuff like this > and thinking of ways of putting it into stoopid Ted speak., failing > miserably in the process. > Ted (I liked it. Therefore, it is by definition good.) -- Jim .