Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Enjoy the Ride, what's the alternative......

In the grand scheme of life we have a beginning, we toddle, we infant, we teen and then we know everything.

How wild is this life. I was 27 a few weeks ago and I blinked a few times and I am 63....how and when did this occur.

I thought that getting old would take a lot longer.

BASEMENT SKATE - IT IS OVER

JULY 2024 - The decision was made that Basement Skate is closing and on a cool day in July it was over.

Thank you so much for the memories.

Icons do not last forever....bummer

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.