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March 17

Help with Unknown Music Video

I seen a music video many years ago. From what I can remember, the music video shows scientists using genetic engineering (& cloning I think) to create the main character in the video. It shows different points of the main characters life from before being born, childhood all the way to adulthood. Until at the end of the music video the main character meets & falls in love with someone. From what I can remember, there are two different versions of the video, one were the character is a guy (& the person he falls in love with is the girl from the second version) & the second version were character is a woman (& the person she falls in love with is the guy from the first version). Anyone know the name of the music video, song, etc. 195.138.205.241 (talk) 09:44, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

How many years ago is "many"? Even a rough guess would be helpful. And was it rock, rap, country or what? InedibleHulk (talk) 10:04, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

I think it was about 15, 20 years ago. I can't remember what genre it would go. 195.138.205.241 (talk) 14:37, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Hmmm...I was pretty hardcore into MuchMusic around then. Not ringing a bell (I was hardcore into weed, too), but I may likely have seen it. If it comes back to me, I'll let you know. InedibleHulk (talk) 14:55, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Okaydoke. 195.138.205.241 (talk) 14:47, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Is "Life is a flat circle" from Nietzsche

I am watching "True detective". Someone says "Life is a flat circle" to which Cole replies "What's that? Nietzsche?". Google, Wikipedia and Wikiquote have all failed me, so I am reaching out to the higher echelons of knowledge, i e helpdesk. The meaning is clear: Things repeat themselves. Could Cole be correct? Is it Nietzsche? Star Lord - 星王 (talk) 16:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Are there any other circles, in Euclidean geometry at least, which are not "flat"? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:28, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Circles have constant curvature, and are therefor nowhere "flat" or linear in the common sense. But they can be described as lying in a particular 2D flat of some n-dimensional Euclidean space, and that's the "flatness" that you're getting at. The play on words is that "flat circle" is an apparent oxymoron. As you can see from the article, curvature becomes rather subtle rather quickly. SemanticMantis (talk) 16:44, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

A given circle in Euclidean geometry lies in exactly one plane, hence "flat", although I guess whoever said that was just being punny. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:57, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

From what I see on Google, the quote is actually "Time is a flat circle", and is connected to Nietzsche's views on Eternal Return. Rojomoke (talk) 17:47, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

¡Thanks, Rojo! Star Lord - 星王 (talk) 18:20, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

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