"REICHLE, CHRISTOPHER" <CREICHLE@nsc.msmail.miami.edu> observed:
>Further Theories....
>Any time you have an intermittent electrical problem in an MG you are
>experiencing the combined effects of two MGs' auras passing by and briefly
>occupying each other's space. This is only a temporary condition and will
>only occur when you are within a few miles of another MG.
This is the basic Darwinian reason why all British car drivers
wave to each other when they see each other. I myself tend to
flash my lights or honk the air horns, rather than wave.
The motivation is SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES:
I see you, and you see me, therefore we wave, and
acknowledge each to the other that if the other were
pulled off on the shoulder with a car that was in the
midst of "declining to proceed", we would help with
diagnosis, tools, spares, and repairs, or at least
give the stranded driver a lift.
In actual fact, stopping to help another driver may well
cause YOUR car to fail in "sympathy" for the other car,
as the above theory suggests. This at least allows the
two drivers to work together, and make one working car
from the two dead ones, thus increasing the net knowledge
base about the cars. Very, very subtle Darwinian things
going on here... The cars, you see are PARASITES, so they
WANT to fail in strange and usual ways in order to make
us all "smarter", so we can support them better.
In actual fact, they are parasites on our time and effort,
and/or bank accounts, so they LIVE off the diet fed to
them when they get sulky and "neglect to advance".
The waving to each other is OUR Darwinian survival skill.
The astute student will note that FAILING ITSELF is the
Darwinian survival skill of the British Car, for the
reasons outlined above. Tricky little things, aren't they?
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics says "Natural processes increase entropy".
Translation - "You think you're in trouble now? Just you wait..."
james fischer jfischer@supercollider.com
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