################################################################
Q: How many Extropians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: (Choose one or several)
None: Extropians all glow in the dark.
None: For although Extropians do not really glow in the dark,
none of them will admit to such a serious inability.
None: Extropian discussions generate sufficient heat that the
local black-body emission spectrum peaks in the visible.
None: Boundless expansion implies there's another light out
there somewhere, and we're sure to find it before long.
None: Boundless expansion implies there isn't anything to
run into anyway, so who needs a light?
None: Dynamic optimism implies the light bulb will start
working again without any need for a repair.
None: Dynamic optimism implies that we don't need light to
see what's there -- all our guesses will be right.
None: Intelligent technology implies that the light bulb will
figure out its own problem and deal with it properly.
None: Self-transformation implies that all we have to do is
install these little teeny weeny infrared receptors
in our retinas.
None: Self-transformation implies the light bulb will turn
into a fluorescent tube soon.
Two: One to wave a fist full of dollars in its face and the
other to remind it what it could do with all that money.
Five: One to hold the bulb and four to chant while he levitates.
Sixteen: For according to the principle of spontaneous order,
our light-bulb-fixing team has coalesced naturally. Now,
you folks hang on to all these ladders and ... did anyone
happen to bring a bulb ... ?
################################################################
-- Jay Freeman, First Extropian Squirrel