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Mark Sreeves
Apr 9th, 2001, 09:52 AM
I vaugely remember a theory that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else in three steps


ie you know someone who knows someone else who knows someone else


Anyone else recall this theory?
whose it was etc....
chenko
Apr 9th, 2001, 09:59 AM
Well.......Sounds quite stupid.......was it parksie? :p
paulw
Apr 9th, 2001, 10:28 AM
You are thinking of degrees of separation. I know my MP who knows Tony Blair who knows the US President - so I am only three steps from there.

I think that someone suggested that you affect 20,000 people per day by your personal interactions and that anyone can be connected within six degrees of separation. Can't remember whose theory though. I think it was based round Kevin Bacon - people had a separation index from him - v. strange.

Cheers,

P.
Active
Apr 9th, 2001, 10:30 AM
Well it's Six.. not 3..

John Guare - Pulitzer Winner, Author: Six degrees of Separation.

There is a Game based on his work...
http://www.louisville.com/loumag/mar/bacon.htm
Mark Sreeves
Apr 9th, 2001, 10:32 AM
Trust Active to know it! ;)
parksie
Apr 9th, 2001, 10:54 AM
Yeah...he knows far too much :p
Geoff Gunson
Apr 9th, 2001, 10:58 AM
I heard a similar one along different lines, your supposed to be able to get to a porn site within 20 clicks, ie links from any other web site in the world.

Don't think it fully works try this as a starting point I bet It can't be done www.telesoft-technologies.co.uk

Geoff
parksie
Apr 9th, 2001, 11:05 AM
Managed it!

They had a link to a Yahoo! directory and it was simple from there :rolleyes:
Geoff Gunson
Apr 9th, 2001, 11:08 AM
Cool I though it was one of the urburn legends.

That site is who I work for :)

G
SurfDemon
Apr 9th, 2001, 11:10 AM
Originally posted by Active
Well it's Six.. not 3..



One of the girls I went to school with must have "slept" with half the population of the northern hemi-sphere by now, so it's ptobably much less than 6 if you use her as a link.

SD
denniswrenn
Apr 9th, 2001, 12:01 PM
That *****.. she told me I was her first :mad:.... :rolleyes:
parksie
Apr 9th, 2001, 12:08 PM
Sorry Dennis...my guilty secret :rolleyes:
SurfDemon
Apr 9th, 2001, 12:08 PM
Originally posted by denniswrenn
That *****.. she told me I was her first :mad:.... :rolleyes:

Maybe you were? Where you in front of the rest of the regiment?;) :D

SD
denniswrenn
Apr 9th, 2001, 12:14 PM
:D