Random randomness

[Unagi]

or to be silly (and not in the spirit of the question really), I would maybe say:

Gaia
Cthulhu
Yahweh

I think of each of these precludes the existence of the others.

when I can pick from anywhere in space and time, I don't think there is such thing as 'preclude'.

But, it was indeed my 'silly' answer that I don't think was in the spirit of the question.

[Kraken]

I have this ancient butterfly sponge mop whose head has disintegrated. The brand name is Quickie, and it says "Use replacement type H" right on it. How very helpful! Do you think I can find Quickie type H refills anywhere? No I cannot, after trying for 20 minutes. Looks like Ima have to buy a whole new mop. They aren't expensive; I just hate to throw away a perfectly good handle and squeeze mechanism. The replacement's attachment nuts have to fit into a molded recess, so I can't even drill new holes to fit the now-ubiquitous Type S. (sigh) New mop it is.

[Daehawk]

Never had a butterfly sponge mop. My sponge mops tend to sit so long between uses that they become hard or start to crumble apart over time and I get bits left everywhere.

BTW are sponges even sponged any longer? Like from living stuff in the sea? Ive thought they've been artificially made for decades now.

[Kraken]

Sponges are cellulose. Nowadays the kids are buying polypropylene.

[Holman]

or to be silly (and not in the spirit of the question really), I would maybe say:

Gaia
Cthulhu
Yahweh

I think of each of these precludes the existence of the others.

when I can pick from anywhere in space and time, I don't think there is such thing as 'preclude'.

But, it was indeed my 'silly' answer that I don't think was in the spirit of the question.

My comment was offered in the spirit of sillytheology!

[Max Peck]

I have this ancient butterfly sponge mop whose head has disintegrated. The brand name is Quickie, and it says "Use replacement type H" right on it. How very helpful! Do you think I can find Quickie type H refills anywhere? No I cannot, after trying for 20 minutes. Looks like Ima have to buy a whole new mop. They aren't expensive; I just hate to throw away a perfectly good handle and squeeze mechanism. The replacement's attachment nuts have to fit into a molded recess, so I can't even drill new holes to fit the now-ubiquitous Type S. (sigh) New mop it is.

This one? Ace claims to carry it.

[Kraken]

I have this ancient butterfly sponge mop whose head has disintegrated. The brand name is Quickie, and it says "Use replacement type H" right on it. How very helpful! Do you think I can find Quickie type H refills anywhere? No I cannot, after trying for 20 minutes. Looks like Ima have to buy a whole new mop. They aren't expensive; I just hate to throw away a perfectly good handle and squeeze mechanism. The replacement's attachment nuts have to fit into a molded recess, so I can't even drill new holes to fit the now-ubiquitous Type S. (sigh) New mop it is.

This one? Ace claims to carry it.

Looks like that's the elusive type H, based on the photo (text doesn't say). Unfortunately, it's pickup-only from a store 12 miles away in a direction I don't routinely go, so I won't find out. I'm not THAT devoted to my mop handle.

[Blackhawk]

Here's the page. They have a 'where to buy' button.

Both Walmart and Amazon list them, but they're both out of stock. That could mean that it's no longer in production - it may be time for a new mop. Don't worry, though, you'll get a more modern one where you don't have to worry about the head disintegrating (the mop will break well before that happens.)

[Daehawk]

If you could travel at near light speed the time passage on Earth compared to you would really depend on just how close you could get to lightspeed....little increases mean big time passes.

How many years would pass if you travel at the speed of light for 1 year?
At 99.99 percent of the speed of light, a craft traveling for one year would come back to a world that had aged more than 70 years in their absence. At 99.99999 percent of the speed of light, for a year, more than 2000 years would pass on Earth.

Still thats all time travel in a way into the future. Theres no going backwards in time that we know of. I wonder why time is so linear. Then again time itself is a perceived human thing made up by us.

[Blackhawk]

Human senses and minds are limited. We see the universe around us through human eyes, and assume that the universe conforms to what we can understand. But we developed inside the universe - it didn't form around us, based on our needs.

Just because we experience time linearly doesn't mean that it's linear (or even that it's time.) We're the 2d being looking at a sphere and thinking it's a circle.

[Kraken]

Here's the page. They have a 'where to buy' button.

Both Walmart and Amazon list them, but they're both out of stock. That could mean that it's no longer in production - it may be time for a new mop. Don't worry, though, you'll get a more modern one where you don't have to worry about the head disintegrating (the mop will break well before that happens.)

Yeah, I already struck out with their where-to-buy page. Ima buy me a 21st century mop. It's time.

[Kraken]

I wonder why time is so linear. Then again time itself is a perceived human thing made up by us.

Entropy. Eggs never unscramble themselves, nor does bacon move from your belly to your plate.

[Max Peck]

nor does bacon move from your belly to your plate.

Technically it can do that, but it's never a good thing when it happens.

[stessier]

I wonder why time is so linear. Then again time itself is a perceived human thing made up by us.

Entropy. Eggs never unscramble themselves, nor does bacon move from your belly to your plate.

Are you sure?

[Smoove_B]

Then again time itself is a perceived human thing made up by us.

Tempus est umbra in mente

[Unagi]

I wonder why time is so linear.

What a strangely phrased question.

Isn’t time just linear. Are there degrees of being linear?

OMG time, you are like -so- linear.

Is there an amount of linear that wouldn’t have been remarkable, but time is just so linear it needs to explain itself?



Also, I don’t think time is a human construct any more than gravity or mass is.

[Unagi]

I wonder why time is so linear. Then again time itself is a perceived human thing made up by us.

Entropy. Eggs never unscramble themselves, nor does bacon move from your belly to your plate.

Are you sure?

That’s really just about the idea of infinity.

[ImLawBoy]

Time is a flat circle.

[Daehawk]

Time is a flat circle.

One of those flat circle people huh? What about the hollow circle people?

[Unagi]

Time is a flat circle.

But why is it so flat.

[ImLawBoy]

Time is a flat circle.

But why is it so flat.

Ask McConaughey.

[stessier]

I wonder why time is so linear. Then again time itself is a perceived human thing made up by us.

Entropy. Eggs never unscramble themselves, nor does bacon move from your belly to your plate.

Are you sure?

/snipped youtube vid/

That’s really just about the idea of infinity.

True, but given what we don't know about the universe, just how sure are we that it's not infinite and they won't unscramble?

[LordMortis]

I wonder why time is so linear. Then again time itself is a perceived human thing made up by us.

Entropy. Eggs never unscramble themselves, nor does bacon move from your belly to your plate.

Are you sure?

/snipped youtube vid/

That’s really just about the idea of infinity.

True, but given what we don't know about the universe, just how sure are we that it's not infinite and they won't unscramble?

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”

[Unagi]

I wonder why time is so linear. Then again time itself is a perceived human thing made up by us.

Entropy. Eggs never unscramble themselves, nor does bacon move from your belly to your plate.

Are you sure?

/snipped youtube vid/

That’s really just about the idea of infinity.

True, but given what we don't know about the universe, just how sure are we that it's not infinite and they won't unscramble?

It’s fine to understand the eggs -may- unscramble, but when that also lives with equal chances that they -may- become an iPhone, it’s just not as meaningful.

In other words, scrambled eggs don’t really stand a chance of being “unscrambled”, they just stand a chance to become any other object at all - and that includes an egg and an iPhone.

It’s not reverse entropy. It’s just more entropy, to the infinite extreme.

[Smoove_B]

Wandered into random randomness, ended up in the "Whatcha smokin'?" thread.

[stessier]

I wonder why time is so linear. Then again time itself is a perceived human thing made up by us.

Entropy. Eggs never unscramble themselves, nor does bacon move from your belly to your plate.

Are you sure?

/snipped youtube vid/

That’s really just about the idea of infinity.

True, but given what we don't know about the universe, just how sure are we that it's not infinite and they won't unscramble?

It’s fine to understand the eggs -may- unscramble, but when that also lives with equal chances that they -may- become an iPhone, it’s just not as meaningful.

In other words, scrambled eggs don’t really stand a chance of being “unscrambled”, they just stand a chance to become any other object at all - and that includes an egg and an iPhone.

It’s not reverse entropy. It’s just more entropy, to the infinite extreme.

Not really entropy. Entropy is an increase in disorder. Either of your options is more ordered than what you started with. And it really couldn't turn into an iPhone as it doesn't have the necessary parts to do it (assuming we are only concentrating on what started as scrambled eggs).

[stessier]

Wandered into random randomness, ended up in the "Whatcha smokin'?" thread.

Meh, it's a way to pass a random Thursday.

[Unagi]

Wandered into random randomness, ended up in the "Whatcha smokin'?" thread.

Man, even the Random randomness thread isn't safe these days.

I'll try to curb my apparent desire for conversation.

[Smoove_B]

?

In a thread about random randomness, I wasn't expecting a discussion on the nature of time. What's next, the origin of consciousness in a post-bicameral mind?

Regardless, there was a quote by Douglas Adams, which is always a winner.

[TheMix]

Regardless, there was a quote by Douglas Adams, which is always a winner.

[Isgrimnur]

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.

[Jaymon]

This time will be different
This time will be right
And so I say
Let there be light.

[jztemple2]

Today is my actual 70th birthday day, so I got my final presents. First another tank top:



There were also a romantic card and a set of blow up flamingos for the pool with built in lights. I don't have pics of those as it isn't yet night and I have yet to blow up the other two, the first already being in the pool.

Finally, as we were leaving for lunch, I found the final surprise:





It would have been a perfect day except my car wouldn't start so we took the wife's car. Happily after we got home I was able to use my battery jumper device to convince myself that it was just the car battery that failed and so I ran down to the parts store and got a new one, then installed it myself. My wife pointed out to me afterwards that I could have just had them install it, but what's the fun in that .

We are off to dinner in my car so we'll see if I'm a hero or a zero with the battery change-out.

[TheMix]

Happy flocking Birthday!

[Blackhawk]

Get the flock out of here!

Happy Birthday.

[Daehawk]

Happy Bday sir!

[Isgrimnur]

another tank top:

Sun's out, guns out! We need a pic of you flexing.

[Unagi]

Where Jz goes, flamingos.

Happy Birthday, you old flock.

[Unagi]

Sun's out, guns out!

OMFG that had me in stitches for some reason.

[Pyperkub]

Happy Birthday, and good luck at/after dinner!