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Re: Achievements list
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2012 Aug 07, 18:50 +0100
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2012 Aug 07, 18:50 +0100
> > >Example of trivial would be taking time of a sunset. Example of next to >impossible (for me, for sure) would be taking time of sunrize. Sunrise is a theoretical construct, proposed by philosophers as a logical extension of sunset. Since one exists, the other must exist too. No civilized person that I ever met has actually seen a sunrise. >Or, maybe, circumnavigate the globe singlehandedly without use of >electronic devices. Nah, that's been done. >And everything in between. It's all been done. If you proposed going around the world backwards in a bathtub, wearing just your underpants and carrying only a teacup and piece of string, I am sure somebody with nothing better to do with their time has done it before you. >Suggestions? Marry, stay at home and raise children, get fat. Enjoy life! Geoffrey