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On May 06 2014 14:13 Epishade wrote:
Say I were to get eaten by a great-white shark. The shark was coming right at me and, in a fit of desperation, I swam directly into its mouth to avoid getting chomped to bits. I've successfully managed to avoid getting chewed up from the shark's teeth, but I've still technically just gotten eaten. I grab a knife and start stabbing the shark from the inside. The shark dies and while it drifts slowly down to the sea-floor, I pry open its mouth and escape, harm-free.

Is this within the realm of possibilities? Like, what about if it were a midget scuba-diver, so it'd be even easier to get eaten unharmed?

On May 06 2014 14:13 Epishade wrote:
Say I were to get eaten by a great-white shark. The shark was coming right at me and, in a fit of desperation, I swam directly into its mouth to avoid getting chomped to bits. I've successfully managed to avoid getting chewed up from the shark's teeth, but I've still technically just gotten eaten. I grab a knife and start stabbing the shark from the inside. The shark dies and while it drifts slowly down to the sea-floor, I pry open its mouth and escape, harm-free.

Is this within the realm of possibilities? Like, what about if it were a midget scuba-diver, so it'd be even easier to get eaten unharmed?

On May 06 2014 16:33 Kenpachi wrote:
If there is new zealand, where is old zealand?

On May 06 2014 16:09 Orcasgt24 wrote:
What is the real date on the car from back to the future? It seems like every few days I get a picture with a imagine says today is when the car arrives

On May 06 2014 22:10 Shiragaku wrote:
Is there a good site where I can learn Stratego, preferably one that is not in Dutch?

On May 06 2014 07:04 Thieving Magpie wrote:


On the contrary--there's a reason Europe had to drop the Roman system for the Arabic system. There's a reason Mathematicians write books with words and explanations and not merely blank scribblings of random symbols. Clarity is the only thing that allows information to be transferred from one person to the next. Just because you ignore the clarity of writing that was given to you does not mean you get to forget it when passing it along the chain.

On May 07 2014 00:45 ComaDose wrote:

I have no idea what you are even talking about here. "blank scribblings of random symbols"? your talking about creating a text book when you say "with writing and literacy, you can teach your decedents math and build bridges for the rest of human existence"? it is true there are words and explanations in those books. Like i said being a very talented writer would help with this. but having the math skills is required. you cant write a calculus text book without knowing calculus no matter how good you are at writing. Then you assume i ignored something?

On May 07 2014 00:30 o29 wrote:
Where is Waldo?

Edit: Also, Carmen Sandiego, though the possibilities for her are geographically limited to earth.

On May 07 2014 01:01 Thieving Magpie wrote:


Being able to explain what the equations mean and what their relevance is has to do with writing, not math.

Bridges were built before calculus.
Bridges were built before algebra.
Monuments were built long before we had organized mathematics.

It is easier now to build bridges since we read the writings of the past to teach us without us having to learn from scratch each time. Without mathematicians we would still have bridges, and buildings, and everything else we have. It will be harder to build them and they won't be as good--but we don't *need* mathematicians to teach us that. We do need writers to write down the knowledge we have now to pass it down to those after us with the explanations on *why* those random scribblings exists.

On May 07 2014 01:01 Thieving Magpie wrote:


Being able to explain what the equations mean and what their relevance is has to do with writing, not math.

Bridges were built before calculus.
Bridges were built before algebra.
Monuments were built long before we had organized mathematics.

It is easier now to build bridges since we read the writings of the past to teach us without us having to learn from scratch each time. Without mathematicians we would still have bridges, and buildings, and everything else we have. It will be harder to build them and they won't be as good--but we don't *need* mathematicians to teach us that. We do need writers to write down the knowledge we have now to pass it down to those after us with the explanations on *why* those random scribblings exists.