Monday, August 15, 2016

Canberra...

A trip to Canberra is never any fun without a skateboard; and the best way to circumnavigate Lake Burley Griffin is the Rayne Fortune.

Along the way it is important to pay homage to Sir Robert Menzies, one of Australia's more influential and well liked Prime Ministers.

Will the real Tony Hawk please step forward

Will the real Tony Hawk step forward*

This is one of those, "you are shitting me" moments to which I say NO!. A vehement NO. Our mate Kanufi is in the Fat Pigeon Hoodie behind a Tony Hawk cutout. This picture has not been cut, clipped, enhanced in any way. This is the real Kanufi.

Kanufi in blue with his Doppelganger in black

Following road resurface Kanufi gives the road the thumbs up

About the Number '42'

42 is:

The number achieved by multiplying the Devil's number (6) and God's number (7).

The angle in degrees for which a rainbow appears;

42 is the product of the first three terms of Sylvester's sequence; like the first five such numbers it is also a primary pseudoperfect number.;

In 1966, mathematician Paul Cooper theorized that the fastest, most efficient way to travel across continents would be to bore a straight hollow tube directly through the Earth, connecting a set of antipodes, evacuate it (remove the air), and then just fall through. The first half of the journey consists of free-fall acceleration, while the second half consists of an exactly equal deceleration. The time for such a journey works out to be 42 minutes. Remarkably, even if the tube does not pass through the exact center of the Earth, the time for a journey powered entirely by gravity always works out to be 42 minutes, as long as the tube remains friction-free, as while gravity's force would be lessened, so would the distance traveled at an equal rate;

42 is the number with which God creates the Universe in Kabalistic tradition;

From the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is calculated by an enormous supercomputer over a period of 7.5 million years to be 42. Unfortunately no one remembers what the question is.