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- UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -3/+62My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and thats the way I likes it.
- DreKor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48crap. i thought you had something useful to add.
- vikingcoder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38Funniest line in the article...
"Kenneth G. Libbrecht, a snowflake devotee at the California Institute of Technology who runs the physics department there in his spare time." - dcoolidge, on 10/12/2007, -8/+41Pics or it didn't happen.
- RedRummy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25*slap*
- hode, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Please convert your "scientific" measurements to units based on our dead king's foot.
- weister42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Hum, I wonder if it can stab your eyes if you were to look up and a Frisbee-sized snowflake lands on your face.
- DreKor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13given enough monkeys with enough typewriters you will eventually get the entire works of really big snowflakes
- jesstech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12It's like, physics is only his hobby. When he's not teaching students how to find the coefficient of friction, he's off carousing the freezer in search of the perfect snowflake.
Gonn' get hisself one'a Nobel's prizes, yessir. - unruled, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14coincidentally, it snowed here the other day (utrecht, netherlands) and at one point the snowflakes were ***** huge... like 2x4cm or so , haha.
- RationalBeaver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"You mean Snowflakes of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist."
- ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I saw this once back in the late 70's. They closed school early and while we were sitting in the bus loading up the middle school kids, it looked like white plates falling slowly. Probably 6 to 10 inches across. I always assumed it was many snowflakes that had clumped together as they fell.
I've never seen anything like it since though. - RedRummy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9No, its snowballs and frisbees
- cbfreder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Someone's never taken thermodynamics.
If you have 10^6 monkeys typing on 10^6 keyboards each typing randomly at a rate of 10^6 keystrokes per second. Assuming they only have the option to hit 26 keys (no spaces, caps or punctuation) and that Hamlet has 10^5 letters, lets do the math...
P(Hamlet)=26^100,000~10^141500
10^18 keystrokes/second -> 3.1557 x 10^25 strokes per year
Divide P(Hamlet) by strokes per year and you get -> ~10^141475 years
Sorry guys thats waay too long. It would never happen. Just because something isn't forbidden, doesn't mean it will ever happen - dioscaido, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@cbfreder: Uhm, that's why the mokeys + keyboard statement says "given an infinite amount of time".
- dosle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I calls em like i sees em.
WHALE BIOLOGIST - shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@dayz
i guess its a good think that we aren't talking about Frisbees. - samnetwork, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Well, then it didn't happen.
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@cbfreder
no one EVER said it was random, but dugg for being so ridiculous. - Skatejedi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5A snowflake devotee? He can come to my place. I've got a driveway full of them he can shovel!
- bronstad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I saw snowflakes this big too, about 10 inches across, about 20 years ago in New Zealand. It was beautiful. It was also about 60 degrees out, and they turned to slush as soon as they hit the ground.
- 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hmmmm....Someone should prank him in the middle of the night.
Doh! He probably uses Digg... - UezeU, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Why do I wrap babies in duct tape? What is the difference between a 100 dead babies and a Cadillac? What is the best thing about baby girls? How do you make a baby cry? Enough... those are baby jokes.
- mobtek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I saw flakes about the size of a tennis ball in 1980 in Cabramurra :)
- levyjl1988, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"In the news Bush spends 3.5 billion dollars on a snow device to create identical snowflakes, how will this affect America's intelligence, see pg 3 for details"
- avolant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1not if it could end up poking your eye out
- insomuchas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I have seen giant snowflakes more than 3/4 inches in diameter with my own eyes. They are huge
- Skyfire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well then, you didn't try hard enough.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Membrane theory predicts that an infinite number of universes exists each with a
different set of physics.
Lots of monkeys to do lots of typing.......... - slicedoranges, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2You tried too hard, bud.
- quick5pnt0cobra, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1No pics = No digg.
- dcbebop, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5I for one welcome our new snowflake overlords
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I tried too hard.. by opening a picture in paint and drawing a 5 second snowflake..ok.
- 4eon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0frisbees? wouldn't want that falling in your mouth would ya?
- mc1123, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1That is VERY very close to being a dead baby joke.
- McGrude, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1It something is not explicitly forbidden by the laws of physics then it will occur.
- tonythespy, on 10/12/2007, -17/+8Doctor: How did your son die?
Mother: He tryed to catch snow on his tounge and drowned
*Laugh Track* - Godlesswanderer, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2I'm not sure whether to call these Snowbees or Frisballs.
- Dayz, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1Don't think Frisbee's are sharp.
- DiggsOnlyNeoCon, on 10/12/2007, -31/+2Because most things I measure are compared to Frisbees.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -74/+7Do people think that's strange or something?
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