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Post by Daae on Feb 15, 2005 0:15:31 GMT -5
You don't like Douglas Adams? You heathen! Just kidding. I thought the Tesseract was fasinating, by the way. I love the Time, well, it's not really a trilogy, books by Madeline L'Engle. And I hated the mini series ABC did of A Wrinkle in Time. They took out everything that made that book great. And they dumbed down the "Man with the Red Eyes". Grrr...And do you know how hard it is to describe a Tesseract to someone who has never read the books? It's like trying to eat spagetti with a spoon! I'm rambling, aren't I?
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Post by twyrch on Feb 15, 2005 9:42:56 GMT -5
You don't like Douglas Adams? You heathen! Just kidding. I thought the Tesseract was fasinating, by the way. I love the Time, well, it's not really a trilogy, books by Madeline L'Engle. And I hated the mini series ABC did of A Wrinkle in Time. They took out everything that made that book great. And they dumbed down the "Man with the Red Eyes". Grrr...And do you know how hard it is to describe a Tesseract to someone who has never read the books? It's like trying to eat spagetti with a sthingy! I'm rambling, aren't I? LOL... No... I know what you mean. I heard about another attempt at creating a movie for it. I hope they do a better job. My 4th grade teacher taped it and played it in class. It was alright, but the books were MUCH better. I don't bother explaining the Tesseract to people. I give them the website and let the people who dream this stuff up explain it for me.
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Post by Daae on Feb 15, 2005 10:34:40 GMT -5
Well, now that I have this website, that's probably what I'll do. Although I think I've finally come up with some sembalance of an explanation, and I would hate to waste it. Then again...maybe not.
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Post by dinadan on Feb 17, 2005 14:51:50 GMT -5
Maybe it was the kids I grew up with, but we never had problems understanding things like shortcuts through spacetime; yeah, it was the kids I grew up with--I'm the only one that didn't turn out to be an engineer.
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Post by twyrch on Feb 17, 2005 16:05:22 GMT -5
Maybe it was the kids I grew up with, but we never had problems understanding things like shortcuts through spacetime; yeah, it was the kids I grew up with--I'm the only one that didn't turn out to be an engineer. As you grow up, you tend to try to quantify everything instead of simply believing it is possible.
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Post by dinadan on Feb 17, 2005 16:07:18 GMT -5
Oh, I hung out with the only 12 year olds who got excited over reading Stephen Hawking. When we'd talk spacetime, it was hard core (and the pear-shaped reality thing came up a lot!).
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Post by deusXmachina on Feb 17, 2005 18:05:57 GMT -5
I always had a hard time understanding L'Engle when I was young. Kind of turned me off of her writing. Then I read it again more recently and I understood it bettter. Still didn't fascinate me though. And Twyrch, you are a heretic for not reading Douglas Adams! ;D
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Post by twyrch on Feb 17, 2005 18:09:29 GMT -5
And Twyrch, you are a heretic for not reading Douglas Adams! ;D LET THE FLOGGINGS BEGIN!!!
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