On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:54:36 +0000, Phil Cook wrote:

> And lo on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:47:45 -0000, Jim Henderson
> <nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake, saying:
> 
>> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:26:40 -0800, Chambers wrote:
>>
>>> Mueen Nawaz wrote:
>>>> Chambers wrote:
>>>>> 2053 was decent when I read it (I think I was 15 at the time).  I
>>>>> couldn't stomach more than a chapter or two of 3001, however (17yo
>>>>> when I tried to read it?).
>>>>
>>>> 	I must have missed out on 2053. I read 2061...
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That was probably it (how am I supposed to remember a random number
>>> close to fifteen years later?)
>>
>> 2^2677009:1 against.
>>
>> (Name that number!)
> 
> Picking up Ford and Arthur in the ship (whose name I can't recall) in
> Hitchhiker's.... ?

Close enough; it's the odds of being picked up by a passing spaceship in 
deep space within the 30 seconds it takes to asphyxiate.

Jim

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