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  1. Apr 9th, 2001, 09:52 AM #1
    Mark Sreeves
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    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....
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  2. Apr 9th, 2001, 09:59 AM #2
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    Well.......Sounds quite stupid.......was it parksie?
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  3. Apr 9th, 2001, 10:28 AM #3
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    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.

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  4. Apr 9th, 2001, 10:30 AM #4
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    Well it's Six.. not 3..

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

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  6. Apr 9th, 2001, 10:32 AM #5
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  7. Apr 9th, 2001, 10:54 AM #6
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    Yeah...he knows far too much
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  8. Apr 9th, 2001, 10:58 AM #7
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    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

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  9. Apr 9th, 2001, 11:05 AM #8
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    Managed it!

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

    That site is who I work for

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    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.

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  13. Apr 9th, 2001, 12:01 PM #11
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    That *****.. she told me I was her first ....
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  14. Apr 9th, 2001, 12:08 PM #12
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    Sorry Dennis...my guilty secret
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    Originally posted by denniswrenn
    That *****.. she told me I was her first ....
    Maybe you were? Where you in front of the rest of the regiment?

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