If I recall correctly, one of the main writters had a masters in mathematics.
It is interesting to listen to the commentary tracks on the dvd's. For example, in "Roswell that ends well", Fry (one of the main characters) ends up going back in time and accidently kills his grandfather. While consoling his grandmother, he ends up in bed with her and thus becomes his own grandpa allowing the future to remain "intact".
On the commentary tracks, they get into this large discussion about how they tried to find the steady state solution for the amount of DNA in Fry that was pure, and they ended up working on it for quite some time. In the end, they give an email address and ask the public for the solution.
Then they got into a large discussion on the causality of time and how they should only time travel forward.
As a college student in EE, I have seen quite a few of my friends fight about this. Four of them got together and talked to the dean and arranged it so that they could combine rooms (usually two people share a room). In one room they have four beds and it is a "sleep area". In the other room right next door they keep all of their computers/kitchen stuff/noise making things. This way they solve the sleeping problem, and they get an apartment like layout without the apartment.
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If I recall correctly, one of the main writters had a masters in mathematics.
It is interesting to listen to the commentary tracks on the dvd's. For example, in "Roswell that ends well", Fry (one of the main characters) ends up going back in time and accidently kills his grandfather. While consoling his grandmother, he ends up in bed with her and thus becomes his own grandpa allowing the future to remain "intact".
On the commentary tracks, they get into this large discussion about how they tried to find the steady state solution for the amount of DNA in Fry that was pure, and they ended up working on it for quite some time. In the end, they give an email address and ask the public for the solution.
Then they got into a large discussion on the causality of time and how they should only time travel forward.
Good stuff.
As a college student in EE, I have seen quite a few of my friends fight about this. Four of them got together and talked to the dean and arranged it so that they could combine rooms (usually two people share a room). In one room they have four beds and it is a "sleep area". In the other room right next door they keep all of their computers/kitchen stuff/noise making things. This way they solve the sleeping problem, and they get an apartment like layout without the apartment.
Hopefully your deans are ok with this.