I found a time machine (which then went all wrong)

**Kaniaz** · 07-07-2004 04:37 PM

My mistake. And now for an excerpt from...a book.

Today was the day; today was the day when they would realize what
Zaphod had been up to. Today was what Zaphod Beeblebrox's
Presidency was all about. Today was also his two hundredth
birthday, but that was just another meaningless coincidence.
As he skipped his boat across the seas of Damogran he smiled
quietly to himself about what a wonderful exciting day it was
going to be. He relaxed and spread his two arms lazily across the
seat back. He steered with an extra arm he'd recently fitted just
beneath his right one to help improve his ski-boxing.
''Hey,'' he cooed to himself, ''you're a real cool boy you.'' But his
nerves sang a song shriller than a dog whistle.
The island of France was about twenty miles long, five miles
across the middle, sandy and crescent shaped. In fact it seemed
to exist not so much as an island in its own right as simply a
means of defining the sweep and curve of a huge bay. This
impression was heightened by the fact that the inner coastline of
the crescent consisted almost entirely of steep cliffs. From the
top of the cliff the land sloped slowly down five miles to the
opposite shore.

**Aphius** · 07-07-2004 04:55 PM

Hmm... Quite interesting...

Does this time machine have a chrome paint job?

**lord soth** · 07-07-2004 05:53 PM

umm, what are you smoking?? its perfectly normal for you to exit the forum, and then log in a few minutes later....

**Kaniaz** · 07-07-2004 06:04 PM

Thankyou for pointing out that. Now read it again.

You last visited Wed Jul 07, 2004 3:24 pm
The time is now Wed Jul 07, 2004 *3:21pm*

Note that apparently I last visited the forum 3 minutes in the future.

[edit: at least, I think i did. perhaps somebody spiked my drink, my art teacher did look kind of happy with himself today...and that flying chrome pig outside is really getting on my nerves now...]

CT · 07-07-2004 06:14 PM

to me it says

you last vistied 3:24 pm
the time now is 3.31 pm

**Human** · 07-07-2004 06:22 PM

Originally posted by CT
to me it says

you last vistied 3:24 pm
the time now is 3.31 pm

To me as well...

**Kaniaz** · 07-07-2004 06:50 PM

Wow, that's weird. I thought it said "3" instead of "2" until you both pointed it out. Kind of like that paragraph where you have to count all the "F"'s in it, and you always miss one or two out.

Anyway, diverting from my mistake (see, I was never good at time travel anyway

), onto the F thing. How many F's are there in this paragraph? Count once and then scroll down for the anwser.

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
[/b]

6. There are 6 F's in that paragraph. Look again.

**lord soth** · 07-10-2004 07:51 AM

HAH I GOT IT RIGHT! 6 fs!!!! AHAHAHAHA

dont worry, mistakes like that happen to the best of us...

**nightowl** · 07-11-2004 06:22 AM

haha, I'm so dumb. Even after I saw the answer I had to look back at the paragraph for like....what 5 times just to find them all.

CT · 07-11-2004 12:13 PM

yea those tricks are funny, hehe

**Lomebririon** · 07-11-2004 03:49 PM

Woo! 6 F's on the first try!

CT · 07-11-2004 04:26 PM

Originally posted by Lomebririon
Woo! 6 F's on the first try! *

according to O'nus' explanation and conclusion anyone who found 6 f's either 1) Did it before or 2) lies!

**Aphius** · 07-11-2004 05:05 PM

Why? What if you just have an eye for that sort of thing.

**Kaniaz** · 07-11-2004 07:01 PM

[o'nus] Because the human brain cannot compute "of" [/o'nus]

At least, that is what the website said.

**O'nus** · 07-13-2004 06:46 AM

lol

If you get 6 on the first try, it could also mean that English is not your first language. Also, the way the paragraph is presented makes a significant difference on the counting of "F"'s, although, the word "of" is still left out from the mind as it considers it insignificant.

It happens all the time in regular life where you will ignore little, insignificant, things in order to get the end result.

To illustrate this better, read this list:

tug
pull
dog
yank
heave

What word sticks out the most? Dog, right? Even if it does not, in cognitive experiments using such lists, subjects were later on asked to recall the list and the initial words recited were the abnormal words (dog) and the words before and after were commonly forgotten as they were seen as insignificant in memory recall.

Hope that was a little more enlightening..

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