Six degrees of separation.

gajinoz

gajinoz

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I'm sure you've all heard of the "theory", I'm not really convinced however this morning, while listening to the radio, I heard one of those interesting coincidences that got me thinking about the six degrees business.

They were interviewing an Airforce chaplain currently deployed in the middle east and they were talking about the ANZAC commemoration services being held there. He mentioned that, as he was watching the sun rise over the desert, he reflected upon the fact that his grandfather, 90 years ago when the legend began, was in the middle east watching the sun come up over the desert while fighting with the Lighthorse. Coincidentally his wife's grandfather was doing the same thing, also with the Lighthorse. Now for the big coincidence, my grandfather was also in the middle east, 90 years ago, watching the sun rise over the desert while fighting with the Lighthorse. I wonder if they all knew each other?

Any of you out there have similar interesting coincidence stories?
 
I have always wanted to fly and my first flight ever, as a passenger when I was a schoolboy, was in an Air Force helicopter that was doing drug eradication near our home. I remember the flight vividly as the pilot tried to make sure we enjoyed it and we eventually landed in the courtyard of a police station.

Fast forward 15 years and I was now flying those same helicopters and also doing a drug eradication trip for about two weeks. One day the weather was really bad and my crew chief commented that the last time he had seen such bad weather was in White River, my hometown. Turns out he was the same crew chief that had been on my first flight. He still has a photo at home of us all standing next to the helicopter at the police station all those years ago.

What are the odds of him still flying 15 years later, on the same type of helicopter, doing the same kind of work (which did not happen often) and me doing the flying this time? Could even have been the same helicopter but I never checked. Small world.
 
I'm pretty sure a bunch of wacky mathematicians came up with the same idea back before Kevin Bacon was even thinking of being a sadistic whitewater rafter guy. Erdos Number

Paul Erdos apparently used to walk into a room and announce, "my brain is open!". He has a biography of the same name.
 
Not to dispute directions... but wouldn't the middle east be the middle west to you in Australia?
 
My grandfather served as a weatherman in the Air Force during World War II. When he passed back in 1995 I was given a picture of him in his uniform sitting on a stone wall with a unfamiliar skyline in the background. In 2004 I went to Scotland to study furniture making and on my first free weekend I went to Edinburgh with some fellow students. They insisted we go to Edinburgh Castle and I tagged along even though other things were much higher on my list to do. As we were waiting in line to get our tickets I looked over the city and recognized it as the locale in my Grandfather's photograph. I was standing near where my Grandfather had been sitting sixty years earlier. It is the one time in my life that I felt that what others may view as a coincidence was really something much more. I miss you Gramps.
 
I once had a girlfriend whose father sat on an airplane next to Ernest Hemingway.
On two seperate occasions.
 
I have a Bacon number, which is fairly cool. :) It's 3, by the way.

My grandfather's sponsor when he joined the Masons performed the burial service for Harry Truman.
 
Six degrees of separation.
I'm sure you've all heard of the "theory"
Click to expand...

So we are all just that much "away" from Osama bin Laden. I certainly hope not....

TLM
 
Having met, and shaken hands with Jesse Jackson, Johny Cash, Erik Estrada, and President Bill Clinton, I'm probably not too far off from most anyone.

It would be interesting to see who is within 3.

Daniel
 
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