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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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 Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:56 am Post subject: Brain Man |
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From 60 minutes.. just amazing...
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He first made headlines at Oxford, when he publicly recited the endless sequence of numbers embodied by the Greek letter "Pi." Pi, the numbers we use to calculate the dimensions of a circle, are usually rounded off to 3.14. but its numbers actually go on to infinity.
Daniel studied the sequence � a thousand numbers to a page.
"And I would sit and I would gorge on them. And I would just absorb hundreds and hundreds at a time," he tells Safer.
It took him several weeks to prepare and then Daniel headed to Oxford, where with number crunchers checking every digit, he opened the floodgates of his extraordinary memory.
Tammet says he was able to recite, in a proper order, 22,514 numbers. It took him over five hours and he did it without a single mistake. |
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/26/60minutes/main2401846.shtml |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| I always confused you with the poster with Piepig and the avatar of Linus from Peanuts. I think I'm drunk, I better stop while im ahead. |
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sillywilly
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Canada.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder how much his sperm costs. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| SuperFly wrote: |
| I always confused you with the poster with Piepig and the avatar of Linus from Peanuts. I think I'm drunk, I better stop while im ahead. |
No, you're thinking of the poster Pegpig whose avatar was not of Linus but of Pigpen(?), and it was something like this:
I heard he left the ESL business and now holds elected office in the field of public sanitation... somewhere in Alberta?
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| I wonder how much his sperm costs. |
He suffered a "massive epileptic seizure" when he was four, which he and others believe was responsible for his "condition". So not only would you have the impossibility of replicating the same genetic make-up, there are external factors that would be equally impossible to replicate. His sperm is worth less than mine on the open market. Far less.
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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I sometimes forget my phone number. I wonder how much my sperm would cost?
Also on 60 Minutes was Joe Dresnok, the American GI who deserted/defected to North Korea in 1962, and has since made his life there content in being a proganda tool for the NK.
You can see both videos here-
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| HapKi wrote: |
Also on 60 Minutes was Joe Dresnok, the American GI who deserted/defected to North Korea in 1962, and has since made his life there content in being a proganda tool for the NK. |
I wonder how much his sperm is worth? |
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