[Rhodes22-list] anchor light

[KUHN, LELAND]

Joe,

If I ever anchor at night I'm gonna want to be seen, regardless of what Stan or the Coast Guard say.  I'm thinking disco ball.

I like your poem.  I believe in God and the Pythagorean Theory--not so much God's formula:

"Perhaps the most unusual argument for evidence of God has come from mathematics. Some have suggested that the compact formula ei*pi + 1 = 0 is surely proof of a Creator and have called this formula "God's formula." Edward Kasner and James Newman in Mathematics and the Imagination note, "We can only reproduce the equation and not stop to inquire into its implications. It appeals equally to the mystic, the scientists, the mathematician." This formula of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) unites the five most important symbols of mathematics: 1, 0, pi, e and i (the square root of minus one). This union was regarded as mystic union containing representatives from each branch of the mathematical tree: arithmetic is represented by 0 and 1, algebra by the symbol i, geometry by pi, and analysis by the transcendental e. Harvard mathematician Benjamin Pierce said about the formula, "That is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth." Mathematics certainly says more in fewer "words" than any other science. David Eugene Smith in A History of Mathematics in America Before 1900 wrote, "The formula, ei*pi + 1 = 0 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit 'God eternally geometrizes.'"

Lee
1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
Kent Island, MD


-----Original Message-----
From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Joe Camp
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 5:02 AM
To: Rhodes List
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] anchor light

Hey friends:
 
     As I am still a prospective Rhodes owner (end of July) I wanted to clear up a matter, and this is it:  The GB information says that the Rhodes does not come with an anchor light, since one is only required when anchored in a channel.  BUT, the USCG says that any boat anchored away from a dock or mooring at night must have an "all around" light.  What's the real deal?  Do I--or don't I--need one?  I'll be on an inland lake.  The boater safety course says, "gotta have one." BG says, "don't need one."  Who's right?  thanks.
 
Joe  (poem follows)
      
 
 
       Mister Spock's God                                                          
 
 
The Vulcan, Mister Spock
will have no god
when his future
comes to be. His faith
will be his reason and emotion 
his original sin.
Heaven-after all-
is illogical
with no
basis in fact or foundation
to support it in the firmament.
And Hell? A negative
needs a positive to exist.
I think:
 
To Pythagoras god 
was but another 
complex equation unsolved; 
to the priest 
he is  a fool
with mistaken ideals;
to this poet, 
he the inability
to explain me to myself-
mathematically.                          1988
 

 


      
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