Dark Helmet: So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Posted on 10/16/2010 5:27:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
That’s the result of having 36 fingers. Wait, what?
That’s one that I learned oh so long ago; it’s perhaps more familiarly “the anthropic principle”.
http://www.google.com/search?q=anthropocentric
http://www.google.com/search?q=anthropocentric+site:freerepublic.com
http://www.google.com/search?q=anthropic+principle
http://www.google.com/search?q=anthropic+principle+site:freerepublic.com
Nah. It's the result of having three feet!
Actually, the missing sock enters the ho-zone in order to preserve the primacy of number 1.
Dark Helmet: So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
A poor attempt at "modeling the universe" indeed.
But since we are part of that "universe" -- that we are attempting to model -- the "modeling" becomes problematic.
Still(anthropocentric or not)one could argue that there is something of the universe in our selves, and something of our selves in the universe.
Perhaps man's search for order -- in an apparently chaotic universe -- is not so unnatural as it would appear?
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There’s a simple explanation about the toast, it’s all about the height of fall and the number of times it can turn around before reaching the ground. If tables were taller by some exact amount it’d be the opposite.
Bump....
The table is the height it is because the humans who use it are the height they are. It’s not arbitrary.
Maybe we should try smaller toast.
Newscientist ran this article almost verbatim 10 years ago.
and a number has just a 4.6 per cent chance of beginning with a 9
Oh yeah, tell that to the Beatles...
Number nine, Number nine, Number nine, Number nine ...IMHO, John had waaaaay too much acid that day.
;-)
‘urn me on, deadman. ‘urn me on, deadman.
It’s a big timesaver. :’)
For that matter, and given my usual habits, I should have searched more thoroughly and revived an existing topic about it. :’) Maybe the original version. But I didn’t find one. ;’)
Wasn’t there a math professor from Texas(?) who had won the lottery a couple of times? Obviously she wasn’t telling.
Do they use negative numbers for real calculations in the anti-matter universe?
Would that be cow pi?
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