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Holy cow! Every post in the thread has alternated between pessimistic/optimistic so far.

So uh...has anyone else seen the entire series yet?

Wow, that vaguely sounds like the opening introduction to Mahou Sentai Magiranger.

Alright, let's stop griping about what I do for work, and more into real philosophy. What is the meaning of life? What is your raison d'etre? What is the proof that humanity deserves to exist? It's something that everyone thinks about every so often. It's pretty unlikely any of you have come to a conclusion, but I'm interested in discussing what you've come up with so far, so that we may pool our experiences, and maybe form a cohesive construct of what life means for a middle age person (age 15-40), which is the age range of this thread, if not this board. By no means am I asking you to reach a conclusive end now, however I'd like to know what you think it is at this moment in time. Writing things while at the same time worrying about other people's perceptions is a test to see what's really on your mind. I also want to make an informal rule that nobody is to edit their posts in this topic. I want People who are interested to think long and hard about their position in life before posting. I don't want People constantly pushing out feel-good cliches, but if you thought about it for a bit, then it's ok. For me, it's pretty silly. By the simple act of me creating this topic I have set out to prove that I have a sense of purpose by finding the meaning of life. Finding the meaning of life by finding the meaning of life by finding...it's the picture of Ourobolos, the snake eating it's own tail. In all likelihood I won't find an answer on my own, so I do things like these.

Zeo: Yeah, finding ways to calculate pi is as varied as the digits themselves, though it's not very useful. It's only a good measure of how l33t your supercomputer is. And how good you are if you can memorize to 40,000 like these men can. http://pi-world-ranking-list.com/lists/memo/index.html Ryuki: Yeah, I do that too. In fact, I try to put sarcastic or inside jokes into as many posts as I can. So much so I forget certain small things to reply to.

For fans of Super Sentai, if you havn't seen the rolling bomber special by pop group SMAP, then here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoXWiH87fFE Also, here's something I just recently discovered that's sorta funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjWW2OB2iI0...ted&search= I could only find the first 9 eps subbed. Someone else had 10-12(Final) subbed but I guess it got taken down. Anyways, I've seen it all and it wasn't that funny after 9, so you're not missing much.

Spiderman: The Other is a good literary piece. It shows Peter going through all 5 stages of grief. He gets diagnosed with something that can't be cured, and he will die soon. So he says his goodbyes, goes through denial, etc, all the while the vampire Morlun is trying to eat him.

Sigh...please read the disclaimer. http://www.watleyreview.com/About.html Just goes to show you can't assume something on the internet is true.

Ryuki You didn't notice what I was trying to tell you. We won't get to an era of giant robots and lightspeed travel any quicker just because kids can add and multiply faster. And even picking octal is flawed. It's easiest to do mathematical operations in duodecimal. It's just easier to group large numbers in decimals because we can use number of digits as an accurate measure. And it is likely that our perception of science is flawed, but it will take a lot of hard work and rigorous proof to correct it. Remember how long it took to convince the world that it was round? We only thought it was flat because of what we see. Also, in practicality in math, when we calculate the circumference of a circle, we say it's 4 times pi or something. We don't actually multiply 4 x 3.14 out. It's a waste of time on a low level. Physicists must do it for accurate measurements though. Zeo I find it easier and more fruitful to memorize pi than to calculate it. So far I'm up to 175 digits. I got on my city news by reciting 130 digits on pi day (march 14, 1:59 pm) at my university. And pi is infinite. By current standards anyways. What you saw, can it be found again? Computer programs as they are right now can only find pi to about 4 billion digits. Here's the mathematical definition of rational: A number when put into decimal form, eventually has repeating digits. 1/3 is rational, 0.6666.... 5 is rational 5.0000000... 1/4 is rational 0.250000... If the digits "ended", then a succession of zero's would follow. If Pi ended, that would make Pi rational. Everyone knows pi is irrational. There is a flaw somewhere.

There's always the Abridged Series of Yugioh and Naruto if anyone hasn't seen them yet. The parodies are only funny if you were into the original show though.

I'm majoring in math, and whatever you're on, I need some too to alleviate this stress from exams. Seriously though, tell me if I'm wrong. What you're saying in your first post is: We could achieve warp speed faster if only we could add more effectively. That is more preposterous than the explanation of "We use giant robots because we can't use radar (Mobile Suit Gundam)." Science is in the theory. Nothing changes if we change base. The law of gravity will always apply. The science will always be there. It might be easier to calculate small numbers, but with enormously large numbers, we use a computer. Even when counting in base 10. We just need to understand the theory of other bases so we can program a computer to calculate in a more efficient manner. Pi is not a nonsense number. It is the ratio of the length around it divided by the length across. It's used in everything relating to circles. Just how e is used in the natural growth or organisms, and radical 2 is used in finding subspaces. Pi, e, and radical 2 are irrational no matter what base they are. Meaning they will go on forever without ending in a repeating pattern. This is the formula for pi in binary (base 2). http://www.lacim.uqam.ca/~plouffe/ I wouldn't try to convert it to hex even if you paid me. Also, as a reply to largo, scientific notation is base 10. 1.0 x 10^9 is just an easier way to write one million. In practical applications, it might be easier to class large numbers of things by how many digits it has (if it has 10 digits, then it must be greater than or equal to one million). If you were to class hex, then you'd have to class large numbers by multiples of 8. Most of you are griping because it's been hard programmed into our heads. Has anyone given any thought to the fact that the ratio of ease to learn / practicality is pretty good. Anyways, the reason why we may use base 10 is as varied as the ideas of creationism. Just as how I can't prove there wasn't a human undead in the Battle Royale, I can't tell you why we primarily use base ten. I can tell you why anyone uses any base though. Base 2 (binary) is used for computing. Computers can only recognize open/closed because of the way they're built (originally using vacuum tubes). We use successive strings of 1's and 0's to give command prompts to compile code. For the lot of you, these lines of code really quickly translate to your screen as a quick succession of different colored pixels to create an image. Base 12 (duodecimal) was used because it was so easy to divide. That's why we count baked goods in duodecimal. For sharing. Sharing is good right? It's also freaking easy to do the basic operations in, and the only one easier than doing it in decimal in my opinion. Base 16 (hexadecimal) is the spiritual successor to base 2. It had the numbers 0 to 9 and then letters A to F. Used to represent binary data in large amounts (sorta confusing, but lets say it allows for faster computing than first gen computers). Base 60 (sexagesmal) is the spiritual successor to base 12 (using base 12 was bad to batch large numbers, so they used 5x12). It was used by ancient civilizations since time revolved around 60. They apparently disappeared. Now here's the non-scientific bases. They were mainly used because they were formed from our cognitive ways of learning. Since we had parents/tv/super Sentai to teach us how to count, things came easy. But how about the early humans? They had to learn things from scratch. Base 5 (hand). Hmm, wonder why it's called that. Base 8 (octal). This one is pretty recent, since it was used by Proto-Indo European cultures. Reason being there are 8 spaces between our fingers. Base 10 (decimal). We have ten fingers. I refer you to that Family Guy episode where Future Stewie went back in time to see Jesus, and all he could do was that trick where you shifted fingers from one hand to the other. It's at timestamp 1:15 in this youtube upload http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBZQfAYfH7s Just disregard the fact that they have four fingers. Base 20 (vegisimal) because we have 10 fingers and 10 toes. It was used by the Mayan civilization. So pretty much, the numbers we used to count are based on any given civilization's perception of counting. Since the Mayans and Babylonians are gone, we exclusively learn base 10. So yeah, in conclusion, we count in decimal because we have ten fingers. We could count in binary because we have 2 eyes, two ears, two arms and two legs (supplementary gattai parts). Or we can count in unitary because we have 1 heart or one head. Heck, if we evolved into optopi, we'd be counting in octal in no time. And I just remembered your problem with dividing in base 10. Why on earth would you divide that much? Sharing is the main motivator for dividing. Do you have that many friends that mooch off of you at once? Sharing is why beer comes in packs of 6 and cases of 24. (12/2, 12/2x4) edit: wow, this is my 64th post. that's the first large batch in of hex in base 10.

Hey, anyone read Spiderman: The Other? It's kinda refreshing how it's a continuity that's not spoiled by that Civil War event. EDIT: Crap, it does lead into Civil War...but it's still a good read.

I liked how the title is a play on words. Y stands for Yorick, the y-chromosome exclusive to men, and the word why. Another thing about this series is the fact that it's most likely the type to be donated to your local library. That's how I got started on it. Everything starts out relatively tame, but wait until you get to the part where the pirates battle a submarine. Then everything goes batshit insane. And this all happens in a natural progression of what would happen if you were the last man on earth. If you think carefully about it, everything he does is carefully mapped so that he pursues his goals while staying alive.

It's pretty much an insightful look at what happens when a guy name Yorick and his monkey Ampersand are the only surviving males in the world. Lots of strange things happen as the women cope with the sudden loss of their loved ones, survivors guilt, and the dawning on them that humankind is doomed to extinction. This is a pretty intense drama documenting what you'd probably see and do if you were the last man on earth. The story resolves pretty much on Yorick's quest to find his girlfriend who's currently in Australia, he's soon joined by a secret agent for a body guard, and they have to look for a scientist who might know what happened to all the men. They find out lots of things happen on the way -like a cult that believes mother earth cleansed itself of man. They go around killing hermaphrodites and burning sperm banks -the Israeli army is looking for him. (all girls in Israel are required at least one year of compulsory service, so yeah, they still have a strong military, as opposed to America, where men constitute 98% of all officers) What started me reading this was the realization that pretty much everyone you see is either a lesbian, going to die soon, or going to sleep with the main character. On another note, this series also incorporates pirates, ninjas, and robots in a single story arc.

Actually..that's probably Kubo Tite's way of sounding foreign and exotic. Like you know back in the 90's, pretty much all Anime started including really bad engrish in the names of things to sound cool? (well...in 2000 they had Aile Strike Gundam). English has been overused, so I guess he opted for spanish.

I think it was sometime around 10. And remember the espada aren't really gonna be introduced until a bit later. First comes SPOILERS

Anyone ever read Y: The Last Man? It's pretty riveting drama.

Like all popular mainstrain Anime these days, I'm reading the Manga for the plot, and watching the Anime for animated sequences of the characters that I know and love. Looking at how things are progressing though, it looks like it might be a short lived series. One Piece waited until the 300's to introduce everyone's new skills, DBZ always had a new super saiyajin level around the next villian. Early on with Bleach, I always thought that after Bankai, there would be a third,forth, etc form each with a theme pertaining to the character, but that's been disproven with Ishida, Ichigo, Chad, and Inoue's powerups. Well, they still could, but it's be too cheesy and an easy way out. And like all new mainstream anime, I pray it doesn't ever grow into a filler year like Naruto.