This is reminiscent of the scene in "Forbidden Planet" in which the Krell power meters go off scale. There are many many of them, and it is explained that each represents ten times the power of the previous. On Feb 11, 2005, at 7:50 PM, R. William Gosper wrote:
Maybe Google or somebody could commission a children's museum exhibit in the form of Ganson's futernity machine extended to a length of fifty 100:1 gearboxes. The boxes would be labeled with the powers of 10 and Conway names, and signs would label the first few shafts with, e.g., "x turns per second," "x turns per minute," ..., "... years," "... millennia," galactic rotations,..., solar nova consumes Earth, universe runs out of gas (with a gratuitous universal joint as an inside joke), ..., googol. --rwg ANCESTORED SECOND-RATE TERASECOND STREAMLINES RAIMENTLESS ETERNALISMS
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