5824 has had a fish tank for a while now and the last fish in it died today. And she asked "Why did my fishy have to die?". I haven't any empathy in my body so in order to a) find something to say b) test a theory I loaded up google.com and asked it. I wanted to know if google could handle the harder issues of life. The exact question didn't return any results. So I removed the "y" from "fishy" and asked again. The first match was http://www.cs.indiana.edu/l/www/ftp/oracle/03/0371.
At the bottom of the page was the following bit:

> Why did my fish have to die?  He was the liveliest one.

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} The answer, oh humble supplicant, is perfectly simple.
}
} In order for the amount of energy in the world to remain at constant
} level, it is necessary for any entity which appears to be using too
} much of it to be removed, so that a creature may come into existence
} which will not exceed its quota. It is for this reason that people in
} cars and on motorbikes die much more often than those who are simply
} walking along the street. Your fish, being unusually lively, was the
} unfortunate victim of this eternal equation, and should serve as a
} warning to you to give up any exercise in which you may chance to be
} currently engaged.

So it looks like google does have the answers to life's trying questions as long as you don't ask with a "y".

I didn't take a pic of the fish in question but here is one of the others that died in quarantine months ago.

:F_P:########Fri May 13 2005#################
Dead Fish

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