Pondering Poetic

Mathematically Speaking

I have always loved this quote because sometimes it is just more comfortable to be crazy than to wonder why the world is the way it is.

"The Universe-- some information to help you live in it.
Population: Zero
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount
of space for them to be in.
However, not every one of them is inhabited.
Therefore, there must be a a finite number of inhabited worlds.
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population
of all planets in the Universe can be said to be zero.
From this it follows that the population of the whole universe is also zero, and that any people you may
meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination."
Douglas Adams

So mathematically speaking, we are all crazy.

posted by CBlair @ 1:45 PM