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[–] 59 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I don’t understand how we got from panel two to panel three. If he got the nail halfway in halfway between the panels, then the nail would be half of that distance at the quarters between the panels, and then it’d go half way more at seven eighths, and the distance would always halve and he’d never finish putting the nail in, so we could never move on to panel three.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    But how do we even get down to that length? At some point we were halfway to that length, and then halfway to it again, etc.

    edit: or are you making a joke making me walk the plank

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Only kind of joking. At some point you are at two planck. Then you go half way and you're at one. Then you are physically forbidden by the universe to move any smaller distance than one additional Planck length. You can't do half. There is no smaller distance to travel. You can either move one or zero. If you move half, the universe rounds up and you move one.

    Edit: sorry, My voice to text doesn't respect Mr Planck's name πŸ˜€

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago

    I'm pretty sure the ship's planks had to be replaced because it was on display as a heritage item for generations afterwards - not during his lifetime. Are you really viewing theseus' ship if everything you're looking at post-dates his death, was the issue, iirc.

    Just to get unneccesarily pedantic about a joke.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I used to watch that restoration show on History channel I think about Theseus' ship...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    Have you done one shit in your lifetime that's just being replaced - or have you done multiple shits?

    Answer that and you've got your answer. .. it's the Shit of Theseus.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    A shit is defined as being on the toilet for number 2.

    Once you leave the toilet, the shit is over and you need to start an other shit.

    Which would mean that if you didn't get everything out the first time, you can get a single turd that is spread over multiple shits.

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