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Re: Journalist on Board
Posted by:
MCE
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Date: August 15, 2003 07:18PM
<HTML>I personally know someone who personally knew Mohamed Atta during his time in Hamburg. My link to AH involves at most 4 steps, but probably less. My link to Winston Churchill also (the first 3 even are the same in both cases). And so on...
Basically this kind of stuff is not at all surprising and thus (IMHO) neither very interesting nor impressive. A study has recently proven once more that you can take 2 random people anywhere in the world be guaranteed with almost 100% certainty that there is a chain of no more than 6 steps between them. Usually it is even a lot shorter, especially when famous people are involved. Of course if one of the people has been dead for a long time, the number will go up a bit, but even then....</HTML>
Basically this kind of stuff is not at all surprising and thus (IMHO) neither very interesting nor impressive. A study has recently proven once more that you can take 2 random people anywhere in the world be guaranteed with almost 100% certainty that there is a chain of no more than 6 steps between them. Usually it is even a lot shorter, especially when famous people are involved. Of course if one of the people has been dead for a long time, the number will go up a bit, but even then....</HTML>
