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aquaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:20 AM
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How long is eternity?????
The correct answer gets a year's subscription to Highlights magazine.
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Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:22 AM
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1. 1) Find integral of dt.
2) Replace 'dt' with /_\t or just t.
Voilá, you have an infinite time, ie. eternity.
(No, I do not expect that this is the desired answer)
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aquaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:24 AM
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3. Close....
but no Highlights for you....you will get one m & m.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 05:56 AM
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9. I disagree
Eternity is not merely time stretched out to the infinite - but is actually a concept irreconcilable with time itself.

But I've only had one coffee so this really isn't the time for me to get onto philosophy. :eyes:
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Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 06:24 AM
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10. ? It wasn't strecthed out anything!
It was just an infinte number of finite times! (eg. 1 second plus one second plus(.....) an infintie number of times.

eternity isn't irreconcileable with the concept of time, merely the viewing by a finite being of eternity.
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:22 AM
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2. The running time
to every Pauly Shore film ever made!:)
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:24 AM
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4. A continuous loop of every Pauly Shore film ever made.
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aquaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:25 AM
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5. Jesus, you won......
I never thought that anyone would get this one. Highlights magazine is on the way.
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:31 AM
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6. Churches around here used to have these silly little allegories:
If an ant were to pick up one speck of dirt and carry it away from the earth, and kept doing it until the entire planet had disappeared, that's not even one/one-millionth of eternity.

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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:52 AM
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7. longer than a bread basket...
:-)
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 04:30 AM
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8. Eternity is long.
You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly long it is. I mean, you may think it's a long time to wait for next weeks's episode of My Name is Earl, but that's just peanuts to eternity.


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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 06:28 AM
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11. about as long as it takes to get served when you are in a hurry
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rustydog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 08:44 AM
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12. forever and a day.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 08:52 AM
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13. Infinity minus one?
:D

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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 10:21 AM
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14. Here's how I heard it...
Imagine you are at the grocery store,

You go to check out, and there is only one line open with 20 people in front of you,

and they all have a full basket of groceries,

and they all want to pay by check,

and its the checkout person's first day on the job,

and she doesnt speak any English.


Thats pretty close to eternity.
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 10:51 AM
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15. from here to infinity and back again
that is how long eternity is
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 10:54 AM
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16. Forever, and that's a mighty long time.
Go crazy!
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 10:54 AM
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17. 2000 to 2008
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Bassic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 10:59 AM
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18. 42?
:shrug:
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 11:01 AM
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19. 8 letters
E-T-E-R-N-I-T-Y is 8 letters long.
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Metta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 11:09 AM
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20. Two more years.
nt.
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