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How Darwin Managed His Inbox
An anonymous reader wrote to mention an MSNBC article on how Darwin and Einstein managed their inboxes. From the article: "A new study finds that the correspondence of Albert Einstein, as well as that of Charles Darwin, followed patterns similar to modern e-mail communication. Einstein sent more than 14,500 letters. But he received more than 16,200, and responded to only a quarter of them. Darwin mailed more than 7,500 letters. He responded to 32 percent of the roughly 6,530 letters he received."
But how many Rolexs did each of them buy via special offer correspondance, and did anything that turned up in the post make their wife any happier?
Just think how the world would be should Einstein had a gmail account!
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Yea... But come on - how many of them asked him to sign up for a credit card...
He used Evolution, of course.
It's much easier to read/respond to e-mail when you're slacking off at work and reading /. (not that I'd ever do that, boss!) but when you're on a boat studying birds on a far away island or working on important and complex physics problems it's a little more difficult to sit down and read through a letter and actually pen a response. The more interesting thing to note is that they actually did write 1,000s of letters that were probably well-written and well-formatted, unlike most modern e-mails (Or /. comments)
However, if their letters had really been like modern inboxes, they'd be getting letters like "Is your chalk too soft? Take c1al1s to harden it up!!" or "Do you want to refinance your home, the Beagle?" or "Hot Physics action here!"
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Yay! I'm like, Einstein!
As a lawyer working for Bohr & Associates, we recently discovered the sum of 8*10^16 Joules held inside 1g of Uranium 237. If with your help, we can free this energy, through a fission reaction, you will receive 0.1% of it in the form of heat, which can be used to drive turbines.
Wishing you long life,
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Lawyer
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To Albert Einstein,
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Umm, so they both sent and received mail. Both only replied to some of the mail they got? ME TOO! I wonder what else we have in common. Perhaps they enjoyed watching The Simpsons in their underwear as well.
Thats what it takes to get a story on MSNBC these days?
you should read everything on the internet as if it had "but I'm probably talking out of my ass" appended to it.
Freud pronbably did it that way to!! ;-)
From TFA:
In other news, if you're like Einstein, you eat breakfast early sometimes, sometimes you eat breakfast late. And, of course, sometimes you don't eat breakfast at all.
"How did JESUS sort his inbox?!?!?!"
Maybe sorting through spam for Jesus is one of the torments in hell?
Fortunately, no-one's noticed that I got the energy wrong... It's out by a factor of 10^3 because I used m=1 in E=mc^2, which is, of course, a kilogram, not a gram.
D'oh.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Beisdes that, since they were nerds, what other type of intercourse could they get?
Perhaps one of them actually invented the first forms of bayesian filtering but the article forgot to mention it?
It depends on how fast it's moving relative to my frame of reference.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
And unbeknownst to historians, Darwin invented the first spam filter, based on his patented Natural Selection algorithm.
http://home.pacific.net.au/~t_rout/Gravity%20waves .htm
All peoples should be exceedingly surprised to learn that Einsteins' concept of TIME, which he assigned as the 4th Dimension, and the speed of light are one and the same. It means by altering either one then the other one must remain unchanged; be declared a constant. Einstein could have made TIME the constant and the speed of light alterable. I will demonstrate this by using a high speeding spacecraft in which the speed of light within the spacecraft has halved to 150,000 k.p.sec. then the TIME, it is relative to, has to be made Stationary Time the constant and the speed of light alterable. We could use our, not so quite, stationary TIME on Earth. Now I will do it the other way by making TIME in the spacecraft as the variable and halving it, but the speed of light MUST become the constant and be related as 300,000 k.p.sec., which is the common everyday way it is stated, explained, understood and taught. What I have now done is to prove and explain more easily that I had and have proven the Speed of light is ALTERABLE. It is under my non-exclusive copyright.
A decade or more ago I stated Black Holes should be stationary. I also stated the speed of light within Black Holes has slowed and the previous paragraphs' data proves I had and have proven my statement was true and correct. With Black Holes being stationary then the speed of light within them is relative to Stationary Time making the speed of light slower due to the Black Holes massive mass and the resulting massive gravity. The speeding spacecrafts' mass increases with its' speed increasing. So an increased mass causes an increase in gravity and a slower TIME or rather a slower speed of light.
A major problem has been that the World Science Establishments, Educational and Political Systems and the colluding Media Establishments wrongly believing that the speed of light is unalterable. All this would be of great surprise to the World Science Establishments and an enormous surprise for the public to know of their surprise due to Science, Scientists and Physicists Internationally not understanding Relativity. They all have not understood Einsteins' Relativity since it's release in 1905. Maybe Spacetime's 4th Dimension being defective and deficient can take some of the blame, but only part of the blame for it is their weak minds and poor reasoning powers and arrogance that is at fault. I again have demonstrated and proven my Intellectual and Scientific superiority and again I am being denied credit, recognition, and public awareness so depriving me of financial remuneration which hinders and stops me from getting my major Fusion and Space projects underway in Australia with International involvement. The Media deceives and confuses the Public of the credibility of my achievements with its' silence.
I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.
It's all relative.
Somebody forgot to take their Wellbutrin.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
He didn't....
;-)
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If you read between the lines in TFA, you'll discover that Darwin and Einstein were working on a magnificent unified theory of everything (which they sometimes referred to as mute in their correspondence). According to this controversial theory, everything is relative even evolution. Darwin originally conceived the idea when he read Einstein's paper on relativity. He wrote, "Dearest Al, after our previous correspondence, I will have read your paper on relativity, and I agreed completely. Clearly evolution and relativity were related: every offspring has been related to its biological parents. I shall leave it up to you to release this information in your own time. Sincerely, Charlie." Obviously, Darwin was a tad confused by the time machine, and unfortunately, it also looks like this is one of the letters Einstein forgot to read (either that or it routed to the wrong century by the time machine). Either way, I think mute fell on deaf ears.
p.s. The dates of their deaths are eerily similar.
Charles Darwin - b. 12 February 1809, d. 19 April 1882.
Albert Einstein - b. 14 March 1879, d. 18 April 1955.
..what emails they would get.
"Mr Einstin,
plz xplain theori of relativaty 4 me as i hav midterm 2morow morn and i skipd all my classs 2 hang wiv a gurl in my dorm(i culd giv u her myspace lnk if u wan??? she has nudez up lol).
thx,
killin_burd9123"
I love how he groups Socrates, Einstein, Jesus and Clinton.
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holy crap, what was that all about? I've read some wacky shit on the web, but that takes the cake! It sounds like somebody tried to explain time zones to this dude and he just blew a fuse. Like it's some earth-shattering existential mind job that there are, at any given time, a sunrise, sunset, midday and midnight, at different points on the planet. I hope that it was all just a hoax/joke.
Because 7 8 9 of course. Ba dum bum!
(I've always wondered if 9 was satiated by 7...)
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.