no, you can't be sue, you're oz.
um. i guess the number of my remaining brain cells is also in question.
for clarification: read the first sentence of the "puzzle" ("Imagine...") and then skip over everything until the last sentence ("How old...")
I thought that's how academics work - read the intro and the conclusions and nothing else? did my best to add lots of useless confusing stuff in the middle, seems to have worked
maybe i'll adapt that strategy for my thesis...