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re: What's a concept that's hard to wrap your head around?

Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:07 pm to
Posted by TheWalrus
Land of the Hogs
Member since Dec 2012
47349 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:07 pm to
The literally trillions of things that had to line up perfectly for each individual to exist.
This post was edited on 2/6/19 at 7:44 pm
Posted by poochie
Houma, la
Member since Apr 2007
6765 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:07 pm to
3 phase electricity
Women
Posted by djangochained
Gardere
Member since Jul 2013
19151 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:08 pm to
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The next one is the string that you fit around the equator of a basketball and the string you fit around the equator of the earth. Lift the string 1" off the surface and the length added to the string is the same in both cases. It's crazy.


Come again?
Posted by OWLFAN86
Erotic Novelist
Member since Jun 2004
196498 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:08 pm to
pancakes
Posted by Dr Rosenrosen
Member since May 2006
4263 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:09 pm to
The coin coming up heads 100 times in a row is literally impossible. You could flip the same coin nonstop for a billion years and it would never come up heads 100 times in a row.
This post was edited on 2/5/19 at 9:10 pm
Posted by AUCE05
Member since Dec 2009
45363 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:10 pm to
He screwed that all up.
Posted by Flashback
reading the chicken bones
Member since Apr 2008
8479 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:10 pm to
The concept of time fricks with me.

I try not to think about it.
Posted by TulaneUVA
Member since Jun 2005
26226 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:11 pm to
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The coin coming up heads 100 times in a row is literally impossible. You could flip the same coin nonstop for a million of years and it would never come up heads 100 times in a row.


Are you jerking my chain right now? It's a mind exercise.

Ok, let me re-phrase it.

You're at a casino and the roulette machine has landed black 5 times in a row. There are even number of red and black numbers. What are you betting on next? Red or black?
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
49487 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:12 pm to
Marajuania is still illegal here, and a schedule 1 in 2019
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
80802 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:12 pm to
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You're telling me if I flipped the a coin heads 100x in a row, that wouldn't influence you in the slightest to 'bet' on tails? It's the aggregation of consecutive flips that makes you think that there should be an even distribution.

For example, if you flipped a coin 100 times, you would expect the result of heads tails to be roughly 50/50. It seems like there should be a natural reversion to the 'norm'


Nope. It's obviously a loaded coin if that happens.
Posted by Dr Rosenrosen
Member since May 2006
4263 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:13 pm to
Gamblers fallacy. You think something is due.

But you have to separate individual outcomes from the aggregate.
Posted by ElectricWizard0
Member since Jul 2017
2702 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:14 pm to
That there is an inifinite number of points between to positions, so theoretically traversing the distance between those two positions should be impossible
Posted by Bleezy
Dirty South
Member since Sep 2018
288 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:14 pm to
The number of ways to shuffle a deck of cards is 52!. This number is so large, that if you shuffle a deck of cards (really shuffle so that it is random), it is very, very unlikely that a deck of cards has ever been in that same sequence ever before.
Posted by Evil Little Thing
Member since Jul 2013
11622 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:14 pm to
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The vastness of the universe.


Exactly this. I can’t wrap my mind around the universe not ending.
Posted by OWLFAN86
Erotic Novelist
Member since Jun 2004
196498 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:16 pm to
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Exactly this. I can’t wrap my mind around the universe not ending.

read an oweo post and the concept of vast emptiness becomes all too real


like my profile pic ?
Posted by TulaneUVA
Member since Jun 2005
26226 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:16 pm to
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Gamblers fallacy. You think something is due.

But you have to separate individual outcomes from the aggregate.


...I know
Posted by Dr Rosenrosen
Member since May 2006
4263 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:17 pm to
Zeno's paradox
Posted by DuckSausage
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2014
464 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:18 pm to
How huge boats like cruise ships and tankers can float. Makes no sense to me.
Posted by Saintsisit
Member since Jan 2013
5251 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:18 pm to
Leaving a shopping cart dead frickin center of a parking spot when there's a buggy return 20 feet away.
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122111 posts
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:18 pm to
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pancakes


Pancake nipples are just pancakes in general?
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