From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: necessity is the mother of invention   
      
   Gunner Asch  wrote in   
   news:qfl0779bd78q2di1vrl9ioo1fadmqcnlqe@4ax.com:    
      
   > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:43:46 -0400, ToolPackinMama   
   >  wrote:   
   >    
   >>On 9/14/2011 1:39 AM, ToolPackinMama wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 1) Red uniforms were not invariably fatal   
   >>> 2) Red "dresses" weren't safer than red shirts   
   >>> 3) Female starfleet, in whatever color, were as likely to die as the   
   >>> men    
   >>>   
   >>> These are the facts which have been established. Thank you for your   
   >>> attention.   
   >>   
   >>For the record, many red shirts that were MALE characters survived   
   >>their trips ashore.  For example, all of the guys in red shirts that   
   >>went ashore in the episode "Miri" survived unharmed.  There are many   
   >>more examples I could cite.   
   >    
   > http://raincoaster.com/2007/08/04/star-trek-and-the-red-jersey-of-   
   death   
   > -the-math/ Star Trek and the Red Jersey of Death: the math   
   >    
   > 04 Aug 2007    
   >    
   >    
   > At last a twisted genius has applied some higher math skillz to the   
   > age-old question of just how deadly is the red Starfleet uniform?   
   >    
      
      
   Note: people who use z for plurals look stupid or juvenile...or both.   
      
      
   > Answer: pretty damn deadly.   
   >    
   >     Probability of a red-shirt casualty= 53%   
   >     14% of fights ended in a fatality (with a 72% chance the fatality   
   > wore a red shirt)   
   >     Probability of a red-shirt oincidento when Kirk has a oconquesto =   
   > 12%   
   >    
   > Which leads to some truly fascinating conclusions:   
   >    
   >     As the data shows, Captain Kirk omaking contacto with alien women   
   > has an impact on the crewAs survival. The red-shirt death rate is   
   > higher when a fight breaks out than when Kirk meets a woman and a   
   > fight breaks out. Yet the analysis shows that meeting Kirk meeting   
   > women only happens in 30% of the missions.   
   >    
   >     Conclusion:   
   >     We can reliably improve the survivability of the red-shirted   
   >     crewmen    
   > by only exploring peaceful, female-only planets (android and alien   
   > females included).   
   >    
   > I particularly love the Powerpoint presentation. Surely, surely, those   
   > wizened old Admirals would enjoy the slides as well, for getting in   
   > those needed snoozes. Yes, the whole intricate and elegant article on   
   > the morbid red shirt is really a stalking horse, to distract you from   
   > the fact that, like it or not, youAre reading a comparative analysis   
   > of bar graphs vs Powerpoint vs pie charts. ItAs as if the anonymous   
   > Fellini of the flipchart from Ross Perotas campaign finally busted a   
   > nerdish nut and this is the offspring.   
   >    
   > May he live long and, yes, prosper.   
   >    
   > http://red.shirt.society.fanspace.com/   
   >    
   >    
   >    
   > Gunner   
   >    
   > --   
   > "The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry   
   >  capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.   
   >  It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an    
   > Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense   
   > and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have   
   > such a man for their? president.. Blaming the prince of the   
   > fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of    
   > fools that made him their prince".    
   >    
      
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