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  • cdoxie, on 08/05/2008, -3/+21here have some of my paxil! ;o)
  • defaultfilter, on 08/05/2008, -2/+58Cap'n Crunch is crazy delicious at any age.
    • directedition, on 08/06/2008, -1/+1And Cap'n Crunch Treats are even awesomer.

      Applying rice krispies treats recipes to Oreos = morst delicious stomach ache of my life.
  • codemonkeysteve, on 08/05/2008, -2/+17"Did Galoka think that the Ulus were too ugly to save?"

    "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil, in another dimension. "
    • VelvetoneFusion, on 08/06/2008, -2/+1In another dimension?! How many are left?!
  • Elliottx, on 08/05/2008, -2/+13My answers for each question:

    Yes.
  • WallnutBoy, on 08/05/2008, -3/+27It's not xkcd? Dugg.
    ..Wait, but doesn't that just add even more to the problem?!
    Meh ***** it. Dugg.
    • paranoiabacon, on 08/05/2008, -3/+1Dugg for being humorous on its own merits, you mean.

      Just give it a few hours and XKCD will be back on the frontpage.
    • Rally603, on 08/06/2008, -2/+1It's like when the farmers would have an insect problem so they'd release frogs to eat the insects. Then they'd have a frog problem so they'd release snakes to deal with the frogs, but then they'd have a snake problem. Or something like that.

      You know what I'm talking about.

    • directedition, on 08/06/2008, -5/+1Who's this Doug guy?
  • wunksta, on 08/05/2008, -3/+22haha "42" love it
    • solidus636, on 08/06/2008, -0/+6Didn't even notice till you pointed it out. Great indeed.
    • douglasr007, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1Spotted the Douglas Adams reference.
  • JlmAWP, on 08/05/2008, -1/+29"Does she really like it when I do that?"

    If you have to ask, no. No she doesn't.
  • TruckStuff, on 08/05/2008, -17/+5My Question: Is this supposed to be funny?
  • Harabeck, on 08/05/2008, -10/+2Nothing happened before the big bang.
    "If the big bang was the beginning of time itself, then any discussion about what happened before the big bang, or what caused it-in the usual sense of physical causation-is simply meaningless."
    http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/big-ba ...

    Mathematics is the study of numbers and whether it was "discovered" or "invented" is a matter semantics.

    Heather wont let you look in her purse because it is messy and some girls like to come off as tidy at all times.
    • ZurMacht, on 08/05/2008, -0/+10The question of mathematics isn't just semantics. It is a question of whether mathematics exists objectively or it is a construct of the human mind, used to understand the world around us.

      I would agree with the latter.
    • Plasmatica, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2You are dugg down just because you linked to a page on fortunecity.com and not geocities.com.
    • theskillwithin, on 08/06/2008, -1/+3Maybe what started the big bang is the end of the big bang.
    • MelvinSchlubman, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2> Mathematics is the study of numbers

      Number theory is the study of numbers. Mathematics is the study of pattern.
  • borez, on 08/05/2008, -1/+29"Why is there no blue food?"

    George Carlin
    • Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 08/05/2008, -0/+8Blueberries were around a long time ago.
    • MASH007, on 08/06/2008, -0/+6Blueberries ARE blue (some are more purplish but generally they are blue). Some potatoes are also blue.

      Blue foods are rare thats why the color blue generally decreases a persons appetite/hunger. Try coloring your rice blue next time you cook it, you will probably eat less of it!
      • borez, on 08/06/2008, -1/+2Actually they're indigo, but this is a tribute to the late Mr Carlin, so let's not spoil it.
      • VelvetoneFusion, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2my blue Pop Secret Pop Qwiz popcorn disagreed with you.
    • Doomsan, on 08/06/2008, -1/+1i've always wondered that
    • NathanielJ, on 08/06/2008, -0/+15To everyone who says that blueberries are purple/indigo: no they're not. I don't know where that got started, but it's a load of BS. There may be SOME purple/indigo blueberries, but certainly not all of them are. I did a Google image search for blueberries, picked a random image (the third image that comes up, if you're curious) and averaged the RGB values contained in the image. Guess what?

      R: 66
      G: 102
      B: 124

      Wanna know what that means? Not only are they not purple/indigo, but they're actually between blue and aqua (aqua is on the opposite side of blue from purple on the color wheel).

      Edit: OK, I just tried this with a few other images too, and the results are consistent. I have yet to find an image in which the red values are higher than the green values, indicating purple/indigo.
      • appleseed1234, on 08/06/2008, -5/+7Don't you have something better to do?
      • NathanielJ, on 08/06/2008, -0/+12@appleseed - No?
      • blackdeath88012, on 08/06/2008, -0/+9I applaud this man for his brilliant work on this endeavor.
  • ZurMacht, on 08/05/2008, -0/+21I often find myself wondering about metaphysics and then seconds later trying to remember if tomorrow is trash day. Glad I'm not the only one with such weird thoughts.
  • batmanz, on 08/06/2008, -0/+6Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. "Forty-two!" he said with a malicious grin, "No, doesn't work. Never mind."
  • geneticlemon, on 08/06/2008, -0/+34"Why won't Heather ever let me look in her purse?"

    Tampons.
  • Doomsan, on 08/06/2008, -1/+33Hot women and douchebags, one of the great mysteries...
    • Bartboy919, on 08/06/2008, -0/+9The truthful answer is that normal people dont have the guts to go up to hot women, while douchebags are so full of pride, they are... well.. douchebags.
      • domdunc, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1dugg for truth. it's simply that assholes dont know they're assholes and therefore can go up to any girl and ask them out.
  • Plasmatica, on 08/06/2008, -2/+4Why is a circle round?
  • Kikkoman, on 08/06/2008, -1/+13What is soy sauce, really?
  • evan3168, on 08/06/2008, -10/+2does it play crysis?
  • 8randon, on 08/06/2008, -1/+5mirror, please
  • jotate, on 08/06/2008, -0/+16This site hits the front page all the time. Why can't that guy upgrade his damn hosting? One ad would pay for it, ffs.
  • Narcism, on 08/06/2008, -1/+3Is there a mirror?
  • SirLoinChop, on 08/06/2008, -5/+1saying "first" is lame
  • riskybeats, on 08/06/2008, -1/+1So little bandwidth. And it gives you the answer to all of them in the title.
  • 8randon, on 08/06/2008, -1/+23mirror: http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l284/CaptnClutch ...
  • NathanielJ, on 08/06/2008, -0/+3I'm a little disappointed that some of the mathematical questions he wants answered before he dies include Goldbach's conjecture and other lesser mathematical problems, but he doesn't mention the Riemann Hypothesis.

    It would be nice to finally get P = NP settled though.
    • 8randon, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1http://www.cs.cornell.edu/hubes/pnp.htm
    • arobicha, on 08/06/2008, -1/+1The mathematical questions don't matter quite so much since a great deal of them are just trophies.
      • Metasquares, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1P=NP is actually a very practical question if the answer is yes. If it's no... well, at least now we know that no polynomial time solution exists to that class of problems.
      • over9k, on 08/06/2008, -0/+0P=NP? is a hugely important question!
      • arobicha, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1I said a great deal, not all. P=NP is important - though immensely boring.
  • thegrantman, on 08/06/2008, -1/+0Why so many squirrels?
  • TheLastFreeMan, on 08/06/2008, -0/+3Pizzler == One of the top users gaming... err, contributing to Digg.
  • Gishnak, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2Answer: refer to wikipedia.
  • UberNick, on 08/06/2008, -6/+1I'll help:
    No
    Nothing
    No
    Everything
    Soy, water, salt
    If you can dream it, you can achieve it
    Yes
    Don't bother
    A 26 year-old female from §oCal who joined Digg on April 28th, 2007
    Jean Soutre
    Stupidity
    Yes
    No
    Confirmation bias
    Invented
    If you have to ask, then no
    Yes
    Vibrator
    • NathanielJ, on 08/06/2008, -0/+4- How do you figure that there are no limits to human knowledge? Human brains have a finite volume/bandwidth/etc so they inherently are finite and have limitations.

      - Gravity is soy, water, and salt?
      • UberNick, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2Oops, switched soy and gravity.
        For volume and bandwidth of human brains, taken from a collective sense it's infinitely expandable.
    • ShaggyRogers, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2-How do you figure that mathematics is invented, not discovered?
      • UberNick, on 08/06/2008, -0/+3Because you can call just about anything mathematics. It's only remembered and established if it's "useful" for something. Often we don't realize an application for some invented branch of mathematics for centuries after it's "discovered". And more often, we drop and forget whole branches or theorems because they no longer offer a practical use. The practical definition of invention fits this case much better than discovery.
      • ShaggyRogers, on 08/06/2008, -1/+3I can see both sides of the argument. The concept of limits, for one, makes more sense to describe as "invented," whereas describing the behavior of a particular pattern would be better called "discovered." After a bit of thinking I believe it would be an oversimplification to call all of mathematics strictly one or the other.
      • UberNick, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1I'll agree that a conclusion to a set question can be considered discovered or uncovered. But Mathematics as a whole is a process of defining arbitrary things and combining definitions together into theorems. As I mentioned, these combinations can lead to answering an established question (hence "discovering" the answer), but the actual tools and processes that define what Mathematics is, and not merely what it produces, can only be considered an invention.
  • ProtossCraft, on 08/06/2008, -3/+1P = NP

    P/P = NP/P as a result P/P=1

    N=1 and P=P
    owe my head hurts from minor thinking....
    • NathanielJ, on 08/06/2008, -1/+1Er... I think what you meant was:

      P = NP ==> (N - 1)P = 0 ==> P = 0 or N = 1
    • ProtossCraft, on 08/06/2008, -1/+0dont you divide the NP by P to isolate the N? then N=1 so you input it in, so you get P=P?
      • NathanielJ, on 08/06/2008, -1/+4You can't divide by P in general though because you don't know if it's zero or not; you can't divide by zero. The other problem with your original comment is that you say things like "as a result P/P = 1", when that's not a result of what you just did; it was clearly true already. P = P is trivially true, you don't need to show N = 1 to see that.
    • ShaggyRogers, on 08/06/2008, -1/+3All of you, stop talking about P = NP as if it's some kind of simple high school-level algebra equation. This is talking about complexity classes in theoretical computer science.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_%3D_NP_problem
      • NathanielJ, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2Captain obvious to the rescue. Thank you for showing us the error of our ways, for we clearly thought that the author of the comic actually couldn't solve the grade 6 level equation P = NP.
      • ShaggyRogers, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2Forgive me, I'm rather tired and my sarcasm detection has clearly suffered.
  • doshindude, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1Service Temporarily Unavailable? That really IS a lot of questions!
  • UberNick, on 08/06/2008, -1/+7Does P=NP?
    What happened before the big bang?
    What is soy sauce, really?
    Are there limits to human knowledge?
    What is soy sauce, really?
    Is physical achievability a proper subset of abstract conceivability?
    Who is John Galt?
    Who is Pizzler?
    Who killed Kennedy?
    What did Cap'n Crunch taste so much better when I was 10?
    For convex surfaces of fixed instrinsic diameter, is the doubled disk the one with the greatest area?
    Did Galoka think that the Ulus were too ugly to save?
    Why is there such a strong statistical correlation between the hotness of a woman and the douchebagginess of her boyfriend?
    Does she really like it when I do that?
    Can every even integer be written as the sum of two primes?
    Why won't heather ever let me look in her purse?
    • ShaggyRogers, on 08/06/2008, -1/+3You missed the caption:

      Just some of the questions I would like answered before I kick
    • Tssst, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1Someone was thinking of soy sauce too much ;)
  • ShaggyRogers, on 08/06/2008, -1/+5Just to clarify what P = NP is talking about:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_%3D_NP_problem
  • Clive, on 08/06/2008, -0/+3dugg for who is John Galt?
  • seddyei, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1Why is Jadakiss as hard as it gets?
  • brilanon, on 08/06/2008, -2/+1"Abstruse Goose"? Really? Were all the real words already taken? Do you wanna kill yourself now, or...?
  • janssteyn, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2Dugg for the presence of the answer in the URL (42!)
  • x00x, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1Hotness of a woman douchiness of her boyfriend does it to me all the time.
  • sergionis1, on 09/05/2008, -0/+0loops http://pz2.ru/
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