Thread: Six degrees of separation

Originally Posted by Luminous

I can't make up my mind about it. On a related note, have you seen the "six grades of seperation" Facebook group? It's apparently the biggest Facebook group out there now, with over 4 million members.

No this is all relatively new to me actually.
My sister has some game with Kevin Bacon. He can be connected in this manner. I think. That's is what sparked my curiosity.

I wonder if i can link to any of y'all via this.

I suppose the easiest way would be through politicians. I know somebody who works in politics, he knows a politician who in turn knows a world leader. This guy probably has connections in every country and then you just have to do the same three steps backwards.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

I wonder if i can link to any of y'all via this.

gOD I hope not!

hmm, well... I'm 2 or three degrees from claire danes, depending on how you count, so that probably gets me all of hollywood within six, can't be too far from bono or the other political types, who know politicians who all know each other and a lot of other people... so, yeah, I can see how I might be within six degrees to anyone in civilised society...

All from a cousin's friend going to school with a famous person.

I didnt understand what the article was talking about

dam im stupid.

I have been fascinated with this since the movie came out and the play. If the theory that was started in 1967 was a cause of such skeptisism; why then not see if it plays out. In todays day and age we have computers. I feel that it is quite possible. I always felt it was possible to attain if you had three good friends. In turn use their aquaintences and so on. I was always fascinated by the each degree of seperation. The theory though states you have to pick a subject that is unknown to you: for example - an unknown person in another country. Someone you never met before. Then you start your journey. They say its possible to meet aquaintence upon aqauintence till you meet your subject. I guess the theory would be easier to actually acheive through computers instead of mail or travel. I don't know but either way - it would be awesome if someone had the time to do it - I would actually enjoy seeing someone try to prove or disprove the theory. I think it would be awesome to meet so many people to meet the unkown that is randomly selected. It takes time to get through each seperation upon the subject picked. What i find amazing is all the people you meet along the way. You would definately have to journal it. Hence through seperation is aquaintences. The list is endless.