Math with Cohen and Groening

An anonymous reader writes "While math on The Simpsons and math on Futurama has been covered by Slashdot before, new background on some of the scientific references is covered in a long transcription of A Futurama Math Conversation with David X Cohen and a short summary of a math club talk to Matt Groening and a number of writers from both shows. Some amusing tidbits are on these pages - for example, when the Simpsons writers contacted NASA for the 40,000th digit of pi, NASA actually sent them a printout of all 40,000 digits."

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Re:What's so great about the Simpsons?

[spacecowboy420]

Up until "Ahem.", what you meant as sarcasm is truth - except the description of the "sweatshop-animated, 22-minute television sitcom" - since when is Klasky-Csupo a sweatshop?

A non-bushie gets that one tv show will not save us all and is but one piece of a larger point. Kinda like the poles melting suggests more than warm beaches in the artic. A bushie doesn't get it. This is because they're idiots. What these guys [The Bush Crime Syndicate] do is lie to the gullible, saying Jesus loves them and the "intellectuals" and other dissentors hate America. Thus, they [the gullible, child-minded, Bible thumping hypocrites] jump on board the Bush train in the name of Jesus

- only it isn't going where they [the gullible, child-minded, Bible thumping hypocrites] think it is going.

BTW, I hope your condition soon changes from "nearly" sick to just "too" sick of this place. Maybe then you'll take your "snarky, flamebait comments" and move along to hang out with the rest of them [the gullible, child-minded, Bible thumping hypocrites] because your trash is definitely not as valuable as your fragile ego may think.