"Eugene Miya" <eugene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> Jon <jonmein@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>My question for the hunker down in bunker survivalists:
>
> Address young Christopher. Or use m.s.
Not really my interest.
> How high are NL's mountains?
Our NL friends said about 1000 feet. Acquired in one
of the rearrangement of borders after a war. Which one?
Also told, source of coal...
Wikipedia says: Highest Point - Vaalserberg
(322 m above sea level) ( 50°45'19?N, 6°01'03?E)
>>I took a 360 degree panorama in the De Hoge Veluwe.
>>Open grasslands there reminded me of Texas panhandle.
>
> I can believe that aspects of them look like the Sacrmento river delta.
> Minus the windmills. We have 2 wind mills in SF GG park.
NL seemed mostly rural or urban. No backcountry, per se,
the national park notwithstanding. Raises a question, perhaps
more obvious in NL than elsewhere, but what is western
European backcountry?
>>All the HHGG references I see to the B-ark Golgafinchans
>>say they did survive as human ancestors.
>
> Even in the program they deduced the ape creatures to be
> your relatives.
Hmmm, this is from the 6th episode of the radio series:
[ speaking about the B-ark Golgafinchans ]
Ford: Face up to it Aurthur, those Zeebs over there are
your ancestors, not these cavemen. Put the Scrabble
away. It won't save the human race, because Mr Ugh
here is not destined to be the human race.
The book says the many of the Golgafinchans dies out,
but some intermixed with the cavemen, and "must have
survived".
>>Imagination, they say, knows no limits.
> [Einstein twisted]
I tend to think most peoples' imagination is actaully quite
constrained. Imagination assists, perhaps, but does not
replace reasoning, science, knowledge,...
> it's the fact that there are limits which makes knowledge
> possible.
But many things we knew were so, we now know
were not so.
> There was a great Chinese quote [...] were every thing
> possible, then that makes hard things less interesting as goals.
Agreed. But imagination is not about "the possible", though.
> I wish I could find that quote.
I've seen it or something similar.
There are Disney quotes about imagination. Not my favorites:
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
> Go with Dirty Harry.
Not today. I feel lucky. %^)
I think I'll go with Fred Rogers today.
Jon
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