# perplexing thought of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [November 20, 2007, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034 "2007-11-20T08:23:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SVT3945](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/svt3945/32/7409_2.png) [@SVT3945](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SVT3945)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/1 "2007-11-20T08:23:57Z")
6 degrees of seperation, urban myth?? maybe my question is what is the degree of seperation on the WWW ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/2 "2007-11-20T08:37:48Z")
![http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/210x600/pc-load-letter-what-the-fck-does-that-mean-1089.jpg](http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/210x600/pc-load-letter-what-the-fck-does-that-mean-1089.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/3 "2007-11-20T08:39:25Z")
I don’t know what seperation is. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/4 "2007-11-20T08:55:06Z")
Do you mean like how many links do you have to click to get to a website about Kevin Bacon? ---
**Author:** ![sureshot007](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot007/32/7345_2.png) [@sureshot007](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot007)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/5 "2007-11-20T09:30:58Z")
mmmm…bacon ![http://spamusement.com/gfx/87.gif](http://spamusement.com/gfx/87.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/6 "2007-11-20T09:47:52Z")
I’m here for the gangbang ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/7 "2007-11-20T10:15:56Z")
![http://www.shopexit9.com/e9_store/e9_pix/bacon_strips_l.jpg](http://www.shopexit9.com/e9_store/e9_pix/bacon_strips_l.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/8 "2007-11-20T10:17:32Z")
omg free toy inside! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Minglor](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/minglor/32/7373_2.png) [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/9 "2007-11-20T10:19:56Z")
It takes off. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/10 "2007-11-20T10:20:52Z")
[quote=“Minglor,post:9,topic:39034"”] It takes off. [/quote] :lolham:🤣 ---
**Author:** ![ly555is](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3bc359/32.png) [@ly555is](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ly555is)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/11 "2007-11-20T10:24:59Z")
perplexing thought of like, the mid-90s ---
**Author:** ![SVT3945](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/svt3945/32/7409_2.png) [@SVT3945](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SVT3945)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/12 "2007-11-20T10:29:36Z")
listen this is probly the slowest time of the year for sales ---
**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/13 "2007-11-20T10:44:11Z")
good old wikipedia Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that, if a person is one “step” away from each person he or she knows and two “steps” away from each person who is known by one of the people he or she knows, then everyone is no more than six “steps” away from each person on Earth. Internet and computer networks In 2001, Duncan Watts, a professor at Columbia University, attempted to recreate Milgram’s experiment on the internet, using an e-mail message as the “package” that needed to be delivered, with 48,000 senders and 19 targets (in 157 countries). Watts found that the average (though not maximum) number of intermediaries was around six. This finding is surprising, given the worldwide nature of the Internet. It has been suggested by some commentators that interlocking networks of computer mediated lateral communication could diffuse single messages to all interested users worldwide as per the 6 degrees of separation principle via Information Routing Groups, which are networks specifically designed to exploit this principle and lateral diffusion. so every 3 people there is some bacon :gotme: ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/14 "2007-11-20T11:02:20Z")
If you do (6.6 billion / 6!) do you get the number of people that everyone must know in order for the entire world to be separated by 6 degrees? I kind of think you do but I haven’t done statistics in years. ---
**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/15 "2007-11-20T11:09:01Z")
i dont know that many people ---
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/16 "2007-11-20T12:26:09Z")
I think it may be something more along the lines of 6.6 billion/6!\*5!\*4!\*3!\*2! which would give you on average about 275 people… ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/17 "2007-11-20T12:33:04Z")
So would that be 6.6billion/6!! ? :headache: ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/18 "2007-11-20T13:03:13Z")
[quote=“ultradriver10000,post:16,topic:39034"”] I think it may be something more along the lines of 6.6 billion/6!\*5!\*4!\*3!\*2! which would give you on average about 275 people… [/quote] permutations give me a boner. ---
**Author:** ![fbrendan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fbrendan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fbrendan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/19 "2007-11-20T13:09:35Z")
[quote=“Fry,post:7,topic:39034"”] [/quote] mmm On topic: it’s got to be surprisingly low. ---
**Author:** ![sureshot007](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot007/32/7345_2.png) [@sureshot007](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot007)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 1:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/perplexing-thought-of-the-day/39034/20 "2007-11-20T13:11:34Z")
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