[fr_freak]

Sort of like a guy moving half the distance to a girl, then half again.

Reminds me of a nerd joke:

A mathematician and and engineer were standing in a room. On the other side of the room was a beautiful young woman , completely nude, over which both men were drooling. A voice comes over the loudspeaker "Every minute, you will be allowed to move half the distance to the woman." The engineer looks at the mathematician and asks "Why are you crying?" and the mathematician answers "Because I'll never actually reach the beautiful woman!" The mathematician looks back at the engineer and asks him, "So why are you smiling?" to which the engineer replies, "I may never truly reach her, but I'll be close enough for all practical purposes!"

[some tech guy]

That’s one of Zeno’s paradoxes reformulated. It’s thousands of years old.

/nerd

[knarf]

I spent a couple of aeons (OK .. I was doing acid and it fascinated me for a long time) ...

considering we never really touch the ground when we walk.

If I use some kind of super duper microscope and zero in to the point of contact between shoe and ground, I'll find mountains and ravines that, only a few mountain peaks actually appear to touch

So I choose one of those touching peaks and zoom in and find .... a bunch of mountain peaks and ravines

So I zoom in to one of THOSE touching mountain peaks and find a bunch of mountain peaks and ravines

So I zoom in to one of THOSE touching mountain peaks and .... ....

I'd never do it again, but acid was fun .... (for me)

[sima_yi]

Reminds me of a nerd joke:

A psychologist is trying to determine the difference between a mathematician and an engineer, so he develops a test. He has a room with a stove, a table, and a pot of water sitting on the table.

He tells the engineer "Boil the water." The engineer takes the pot of water, puts it on the stove and boils it.

The psychologist then puts a pot of water on the floor, and says to the mathematician "Boil the water". The mathematician takes the pot of water and puts it on the table.

The psychologist is stumped. He asks the mathematician, "Why did you put the pot of water on the table?"

The mathematician answers "I reduced it to a problem that has already been solved."