On Infinity

In the late 80’s I participated in the early versions of these message forums. They were dial-up bulletin boards. At the time they were the coolest way to communicate across the country. Douglas Adams was a regular on one of them. He was into “techno stuff” as he liked to call it.The “infinity” subject was as much debated there as has started here.Just like Ulan Colluphid’s blockbuster trilogy, “Where God Went Wrong,” “Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes” and “Who Is This God Person, Anyway?” the “infinity” issue was a tweak on peoples’ tails. Adams, who was an ardent atheist, liked to poke fun in his trademark subtle way. He was well aware of the logic error in the “infinity” joke but was set on tickling some of his Oxford collogues.He used a lot of logical absurdities in his work. Gotta love it.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Unfortunately Douglas Adams passed away in 2001.His most revered books, The Hitch Hicker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Dirk Gently, the Meaning of Liff, were ALL jest. He was a comedian. Sort of a David Berry kinda guy.None of his books were intended to be real. They were all SciFi comedy. Like Lewis Carroll, he used logic to the absurd.abe: The Ulan Colluphid books I cited were all figments of Adam's imagination.Edited by AZPaul3, : Well, I sort of thought I might explain something since it seemed to me that maybe, just maybe, some, not having taken the opportunity to enjoy said tomes, might not understand what it was to which, in my usual verbose and borderline cognitive way, I was referring, sorta.

Now, Answers, how could you possible know this? Last time I looked the "McFall-to-English" decryption program had degenerated into absolute gibberish and was sent back into R&D. Has there been some kind of major advance in decryption algorithms of which I am unaware?Edited by AZPaul3, : Well, see, when one is in a hurry one has a tendency to leave out words that should be in the sentence. Sometimes ones fingers are incapable of keeping up with ones thought processes and thus compensates by skipping certain words, like, the subject of the sentence. This is not conducive to proper communication and, thus, a correction was in order.