In response to a C. W. Post speculating on why The Simpsons , despite having only eight fingers apiece , come out to operate ( just like us ! ) on a mathematical base 10 , commenterearthwulfadvanced a time - traveler hypothesis about the town of Springfield :
The Simpsons actually exist in the far future . The major planet was carry off , a planetary Revelation wiped out closely all humans . Thousands of years after , society has develop in parallel to our own – in part due to ancient texts that have been uncovered after the tragedy . These ancient texts admit groundwork ten mathematics . The human will over had to adapt to harsh conditions of the reality , and phylogenesis crop to transfer both skin tone to allow for for a more efficient room of absorbing lighter in the new , harsher atmosphere and caused the lost of vestigial body parts , like the pinky , in an cause to conserve energy in emergence and development . This evolutionary course also created beings who were much longer lived , not emerging from childhood for twenty or thirty eld …
To that commenterT.L. Evansappended one small chastisement about the tidings decimate ( import , literally , to slim down by 10 % ):
The planet was not decimated , it was octimated … apparently .
simulacrum : Ole Olson
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