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Posted Oct 29, 1999 by Lupa Mirabilis, Serious Inquisitor
I tried searching for Dead Bodies and got _majorly_ sidetracked. As soon as I finish being sidetracked I'll refine the search a bit and then see what I can do about reviving that thread.
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Posted Nov 2, 1999 by Bluebottle
I appreciate you having a look, my friend. Looking at the forum again, a large number of it seems to be me, but then it was the first Forum I ever went to; my friend Ian (Peregrin u40382) had introduced me to H2G2, and I looked at all the sites he'd been to, and just chose this one! So it's got happy memories
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Posted Nov 3, 1999 by Lupa Mirabilis, Serious Inquisitor
Yeah, I guess that's true for me too. In fact, I believe you were the one who just made me very happy by posting on my homepage, in the first thread that ever got started there which, as I'm sure you noticed, had been dormant for quite some time (well, relative to the amount of time I've been here).
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Posted Nov 3, 1999 by Bluebottle
I'm glad you enjoyed that - I must admit I hate it when conversations die. But as I don't like them ending, I usually keep posting messages so that the last message is almost always written by me... I sometimes wonder if I killed them off, or did it just happen? Tell me, do you think I kill conversations?
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Posted Nov 3, 1999 by Lupa Mirabilis, Serious Inquisitor
Oh, of course not. If you are the last one to post a message, that doesn't mean you killed the conversation--just that it was already dying and you were the last one to decide it was dead. Or the only one who wanted to keep it alive.
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Posted Nov 4, 1999 by Whammy
There are real world paradoxes, it's just that because they are real we're used to them and so no longer recognize the paradox. For example the old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg. Obviously, the chain had to start somewhere...
Pistachio's are another one along the same line... two Pistachio trees are required to produce the nuts - a male tree and a female tree.The male tree produces seeds and the female tree produces the actual nuts. Strangely enough though, if you plant the seed from a male tree, you will always get another male tree. This would suggest that planting the nut would result in a female tree, however that is not the case. Female trees are achieved by grafting female branches onto a male trunk.
So where did the female branch come from?
Sounds like a paradox to me...
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Posted Nov 4, 1999 by Lupa Mirabilis, Serious Inquisitor
What do you get, then, when you plant the nut...or do you get nothing?
And the chicken or the egg question does have a very simple answer--it just depends on whether you believe in creation or evolution. If the former, obviously God created the chicken first since the egg couldn't have survived without it; if the latter, it depends whether you are referring to chicken eggs or eggs in general. Presumably you mean chicken eggs, in which case whatever creature you first could accurately call a chicken had to come from something that, while not a chicken, laid an egg that had a chicken in it, which thus came before the chicken itself. Granted, that ties in to the Amphibius paradox (how can you pinpoint the first chicken) but that doesn't affect the answer.
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Posted Nov 5, 1999 by Whammy
Planting a pistachio nut gets you a dirt covered, decomposing pistachio nut.
(Personally, I believe pistachios come from another planet and are not native here. Besides the reproductive quirk of having to manufacture females, they also only produce nuts and seeds every two years instead of annually like most plants. Suggests a native planet with a much longer orbit and longer seasons.)
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Posted Nov 6, 1999 by Lupa Mirabilis, Serious Inquisitor
Quite possible...but are you sure they're not just some weird sort of hybrid? (a bit like mules, perhaps)
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Posted Nov 8, 1999 by Bluebottle
I think I might be willing to exclude Pistaccios as an exception to mny hypothesis, not only because I can't spell them, but also due to their weirdness.... But Lupa's quite correct about what came first the chicken or the egg - the answer is the egg, through dinosaurs if you believe in evolution.
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Posted May 18, 2005 by madmech42
will you answer no to this question?
note: maybe and its ilk do not count as a honest answer, for you are stating indecisiveness, and indecisiveness claims that you have not decided on your answer, but by answering, you have decided.
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