Schroedinger's pope
I truly love that line.
edit: It's a crying shame that 99.9% of the people who get the joke live in this little box on my desk and not in the same portion of the meat world where I live.
Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea. Zoe: Thanks for sayin', sir.
'Serenity'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Apr 01, 2005 9:09:50 am PST #2319 of 10001
brillig
Nutty - Apr 01, 2005 9:10:18 am PST #2320 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
So the book is the 'safe' choice.
Now wondering how the book was made. Perhaps the "author" shook a 10-sided die 1,000,000 times (assuming 0 counts). What a boring way to make back your advance!
DXMachina - Apr 01, 2005 9:10:25 am PST #2321 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Is there even any point to praying on behalf of a Pope? Since he's supposed to have a direct line and all?
Eh, he's an old man. Giving him a boost up is the polite thing to do.
Hayden - Apr 01, 2005 9:10:27 am PST #2322 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Wait, what? You're not going to get into every detail of your family life with thousands of strangers on the internet? That's just wack, man.
I know, I know. I'm a traditionalist. I'm going to publish a book about it instead.
sarameg - Apr 01, 2005 9:11:56 am PST #2323 of 10001
Between the spam label and the pope riddles and shell games, my brain is threatening a walkout.
Jesse - Apr 01, 2005 9:12:01 am PST #2324 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is there even any point to praying on behalf of a Pope? Since he's supposed to have a direct line and all?
If only God could know that LOTS AND LOTS of people want the Pope to keep living....
Sean K - Apr 01, 2005 9:12:06 am PST #2325 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
But every few years someone proves that these sequences are not really random, even though they are so close to random that it doesn't matter for anything other than high-level physics.
Which leads me to yet another mathy-ignorant question:
If even computers can't really create strings of random numbers, is it even possible to create long strings of truly random numbers? One presumes that people just rattling off digits is even less reliably random than a computer doing it.
DavidS - Apr 01, 2005 9:12:44 am PST #2326 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
is it even possible to create long strings of truly random numbers?
You mean like, Pi?
Hayden - Apr 01, 2005 9:13:22 am PST #2327 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
One presumes that people just rattling off digits is even less reliably random than a computer doing it.
"1, 2, 3, 4... DAMMIT!"
Aims - Apr 01, 2005 9:13:27 am PST #2328 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Mmm....Pi.....