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From this tweet.
Some more from the replies to the above tweet:
- A Regulated supply of Electronics engineers
- A set of Set Theorists
- A chord of string theorists.
- An assembly of compiler designers.
- A culture of microbiologists (or a colony)
- A bouquet of botanists
- ... and so on.
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"It's the only way to be sure."BillTre said:
Quite by coincidence, I just used that quote in a recent post of mine in the astrophotography thread:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/our-beautiful-universe-photos-and-videos.800540/post-6554157
(the comic quote changed "site" to "planet," but it's the same idea.)
For those interested, here is the origin of the quote:
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Schrödinger's cat joke #368:
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Am I missing something?Hamiltonian299792458 said:
EDIT: I was just seeing the JPG filename.
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We are missing non-zero entries in that matrix.
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Who said squaring the circle was impossible?
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Gives a new meaning to "das Runde muss ins Eckige" ("the round one has to go into the angled/square one", originally referring to the round ball that has to go into the rectangular goal).fresh_42 said:
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Or as our American users would say: The egg must go between the suspenders.mfb said:
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That one class he skipped back when in quantum physics probabilities and Bells theorem would have come in handy now, the guy's thinking.Demystifier said:
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Demystifier said:
If you were to force me to pick from {a,b,c,d} randomly, of course I'd get it wrong. So the answer I would choose, logically, is 0%. And even if I were to have chosen 0%, randomly, then 0% would have still have been the wrong answer, logically, thus 0% is the right answer. And that doesn't contradict the fact that it wouldn't be if I were to have chosen it randomly, which I didn't. Does it?
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The logical paradox arises from self-reference ("... this question ..."), similarly to the liar paradox or Russell's antinomy.Jarvis323 said:
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Life on Mars is confirmed!
Nasa received a message:
Nasa received a message:
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@PeterDonis is moonlighting as a meter maid?fresh_42 said:
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It's an absolute nightmare, Mars has more abandoned vehicles than the total road surface can carry.