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[edit] Sources
Moved from article, until we have a reference for it.
Following on from this inside joke, one of the story writers of the Star Trek TV programme who graduated from Pomona College (Rick Berman? Brannon Braga? I don't know) "infected" other Star Trek writers with it, and as a result the number occurs in a subtle hidden way in every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.
DJ Clayworth 15:51, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Sources include:
- and thanks for getting me to collect these because the latter also clarifies that the writer in question is Joe Menosky. Moving the text back into the article. -- Timwi 03:30, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Good work. DJ Clayworth 18:50, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Man, it's kinda awful that this article has more information about Pomona College than the Pomona College article. -- 165.247.109.238 09:47, 8 Jul 2005 (UTC)
To Timwi: Thanks for catching the errant video game citation -- nice job... Coll7 07:50, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
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- On that same note, I wonder whether each of the 47s spotted on The Simpsons, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Alias and Lost (and I add Scrubs to the list) are deliberate on the part of the writers or simply coincidences. ShutterBugTrekker 16:58, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sev Trek/42 reference
I remember there was a Sev Trek comic that explained that 47 was The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything with inflation involved.. Does anyone remember this comic, since I feel that it would rather be a big contribution to the Star Trek side of 47?
It took place on the Voyager with Paris asking Janeway a question.. DrWho42 21:21, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
- *pokes you* Look in the article. It's right there, next to the Berman quote. Also, it was Tuvok, not Paris. I got a bit of flack for saying what I did, though, because Sevilians didn't want to imply that the joke came from Berman. I worded it the way I did to try to make clear that it was the same explanation being referenced, i.e. 42 plus inflation, not Berman's joke being referenced. If there's another way to word it so it's clearer that it's the explanation and not Berman, I'm all for it. Admiral Memo 20:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
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- Ahh, thanks, it's been awhile since I've read the comic since they've archived it away. DrWho42 02:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
It's in there, but it's not accessible to anyone on a text-based browser. Shouldn't someone write a longer more explanitory caption for it? I don't have the time myself at the moment.
TRiG 20:48, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 47 and Lost
I don't think that the connection stated between Lost's number series and 47 really should be included here, I imagine if you look hard enough you can make 47 out of an awful lot of series of numbers. Why not mention things like there being an initial count of 47 survivors instead?
- I think the number of survivors used to be on the page. As for the numerology, many people get 47s out of Star Trek by computing number series. Admiral Memo 23:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
- There were initially 48 survivors, but I assume that includes Ethan. I can't come up with any other example of 47 in Lost. -TheContralto 20:08, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 47 - Numerology
What about numerology? Anyone knows anything about this?
[edit] *s and spaces
How come somew of the *s had spaces and some had none? We should be consistent. I changed them to all have spaces after them. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 47 Numb3r (talk • contribs) 11:13, 16 April 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Bullshit
Maybe 47 "...occurs in nature with noticeably higher frequency than other natural numbers", but that's no excuse to cite every appearence of the number in film/TV/etc. as evidence of something odd going on. For example is it really remarkable that 47 is the international telephone code for Norway when other nearby countries have nearby numbers (UK - 44, Denmark - 45, Sweden - 46, Germany - 49); or that New Mexico is the 47th state; or that there were 47 Ronin?
[edit] Confusing deletion nomination
An anon user created a sub-page to this talk page. Maybe I've done it wrong, but flagging the sub-page for deletion gives the incorrect impression that I'm nominating this whole talk page as well. If you know how to nominate only the sub-page, please let me know. Astronaut 01:59, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
- Never mind. It got deleted correctly - and damn quick too. Astronaut 02:04, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding Image:S70.jpg
Please note that this image is Fair Use and should not be used on disambiguation pages, only on Sev Trek where the claim may be applied. See the above linked policy for further elaboration. ~Kylu (u|t) 02:51, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- If I get the author's permission to distribute it, would it then not be Fair Use, and able to be used in the article? For me, I believe it would be easy to do that. Admiral Memo 04:03, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 47 Miracles in the New Testament
In attempting to resolve the "citation needed" tag, I did a bit of web diving. I can find no references to 47 miracles in the New Testament, even in fiction. Several sites (one, two) 47 is not a prime number it is proven to be composite by many investigators.
- OK, I was going along with you until you said "47 is not a prime;" that's just plain stupid. Anton Mravcek 22:04, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
