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Ummm ... one, if you're talking about the whole "6 Degrees of Seperation" theory. If I remember correctly, that's the whole 'knowing someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Brad Pitt' thing. If that's the case, on here I've had OSC respond to me, so while that may not technically count as 'knowing' him, he has acknowledged my existence. Don't quite know what you're aiming for though.
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Well...let's see. I met him and have a picture with him.
My wife's mother knows his college room-mate personally.
The Cards sent us something once.
I have an e-mail in which someone closely related to Mr. Card admitted that every. single. one. of his characters is based on me. (Drat! it's around here somewhere...)
You know...I think I might actually be Orson Scott Card.
Notice you never see us in the same place at the same time (except for that one picture thing, which may have been photoshopped for all I know).
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I played trivial pursuit against him and got to meet his awesome wife and two daughters. (Never did get to meet Geoff, though)
So, I guess that counts as one?
There are so many people on the site who have met him at book signings or his writer's workshop that you're going to get a lot of folks who are one degree, I'd imagine.
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I don't know how many degrees, but I do know that I am at least 2k miles away from the Carolinas.
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Just shy of 72 And 1/2 degrees (assuming the stars keep their rightful alignment and don't fall out the sky) Posts: 351 | Registered: Jan 2006
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I've talked to him on email...and I've met a few people who have met him... so I guess one or two degrees. Posts: 4953 | Registered: Jan 2004
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quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: So then OSC would be one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon?
No, that's two. Unless Tom met 'em both at the same time.
Or OSC has met Bacon, which is also possible.
Perhaps my understanding is faulty. I thought that if you had actually met, face-to-face, there is NO separation, so that would be zero degrees. If you met someone who has met the person, then you are separated by that one link, so one degree of separation, if you met someone who knows someone who has met your person, then there are two links between you, thus, two degrees of separation.
Or do I have that zeroth degree thing all wrong?
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180, at least insofar as our opinions of the current administration are concerned (well, actually, probably more like 130).
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Here's an explanation of the whole Six Degrees of Separation concept. I don't think I ever knew the details of this experiment:
quote: In 1967, American sociologist Stanley Milgram devised a new way to test the theory, which he called "the small-world problem." He randomly selected people in the mid-West to send packages to a stranger located in Massachusetts. The senders knew the recipient's name, occupation, and general location. They were instructed to send the package to a person they knew on a first-name basis who they thought was most likely, out of all their friends, to know the target personally. That person would do the same, and so on, until the package was personally delivered to its target recipient.
Although the participants expected the chain to include at least a hundred intermediaries, it only took (on average) between five and seven intermediaries to get each package delivered.
As for me, I have a friend who knows OSC. So I still don't know if that makes me one or two degrees of separation from him!
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OSC stood up and shook my hand once at a book signing in Santa Cruz. So I'm going to say zero.
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I'm two degrees away from Kevin Bacon -- one of my missionary companions was an extra in Footloose (he was from Lehi, Utah, where it was filmed).
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I'm not sure if anyone I've met has met him. If so, two; if not, three, because I know for certain that at least one person I've met has met more than one person who has met him.
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I'm one degree away from OSC, since I've met him, but the more circomlocutious degrees are more fun.
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