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Things that are true that you dont believe

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  • 16-03-2017 3:43am
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    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭


    I was talking to a friend earlier and we somehow ended up in a debate about snowflakes..you no the old no two snowflakes are the same theory.
    His basic argument was its science.my argument was i fail to believe 2 identical snow flakes have never fallen before.how can science even prove this ..got me thinking what other things are suposedly true that you dont beleieve ???


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭12gauge dave


    That we evolved from primates, i just cant believe that one, if we evolved from chimps why is there still chimps?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    That someone could spend 7 years on a forum and only post 25 times.


  • Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭hank scorpio89


    That someone could spend 7 years on a forum and only post 25 times.

    Thanks for the warm welcome back 😉


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Margarine


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,755 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    if we evolved from chimps why is there still chimps?

    We didn't evolve from chimps. Chimps and Humans both evolved from a common ancestor called Hominin


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    Thanks for the warm welcome back 😉

    Hanks for the memories.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,275 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    That everything is made up of tiny particles that have other tiny particles floating around them.

    Anytime I try to look at things in life, just plain old normal things, like making tea with a tea bag, or me typing this on a PC, looking at the characters on the screen, the person sitting opposite me, my hands etc......thats its all made up of atoms, molecules, protons, electrons etc etc.

    Baffling.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    NIMAN wrote: »
    That everything is made up of tiny particles that have other tiny particles floating around them.

    Anytime I try to look at things in life, just plain old normal things, like making tea with a tea bag, or me typing this on a PC, looking at the characters on the screen, the person sitting opposite me, my hands etc......thats its all made up of atoms, molecules, protons, electrons etc etc.

    Baffling.

    Flann O'Brien had it sussed.....
    “Now take a sheep,” the sergeant said. “What is a sheep, only millions of little bits of sheepness whirling around and doing intricate convolutions inside the sheep? What else is it but that?”
    “Atomics is a very intricate theorem and can be worked out with algebra, but you would want to take it by degrees, because you might spend the whole night proving a bit of it with rulers and cosines and similar other instruments and then at the windup not believe what you had proved at all. If that happened, you would have to go back over it till you got a place where you could believe your own facts and figures and then go on again from that particular place till you had the whole thing properly believed and not have bits of it half-believed or a doubt in your head hurting you like when you lose the stud of your shirt in bed.”


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    The landing on the moon thing


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    That it's not butter.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭hungry hypno toad


    Michael D Hobbitt


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    There is no meaning to life.


  • Registered Users Posts: 392 ✭✭Footoo


    Your Face wrote: »
    There is no meaning to life.

    Asked and answered............42!


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,586 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    That Limerick FC are a poor team.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,134 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Some people believe the world is flat.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,988 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    NIMAN wrote: »
    That everything is made up of tiny particles that have other tiny particles floating around them.

    Anytime I try to look at things in life, just plain old normal things, like making tea with a tea bag, or me typing this on a PC, looking at the characters on the screen, the person sitting opposite me, my hands etc......thats its all made up of atoms, molecules, protons, electrons etc etc.

    Baffling.

    Such loose talk (just kidding) has me thinking of all the parasites living within my body and the microscopic creepies I can't see.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,112 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Mena Mitty wrote: »
    Such loose talk (just kidding) has me thinking of all the parasites living within my body and the microscopic creepies I can't see.
    It gets weirder when you consider that taking your body as a whole, your cells are about the same number as the bacteria living in and on you. You're half "microscopic creepies". :D We're as much an ecosystem as an organism, which I think is cool myself.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Santa Claus.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 Afrston


    Is science a proof? Really? What about sectio aurea? There are many flowers, plants, shells that are very similar or the same. But flakes are made by human and I don't know any source of scientific research about that :D


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,112 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Afrston wrote: »
    But flakes are made by human and I don't know any source of scientific research about that :D

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    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Footoo wrote: »
    Asked and answered............42!

    Nope. That's the answer to the ultimate question. Which we know not what it is.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    No two cornflakes are the same....


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,929 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    I still dont know what a tracker mortgage is :o



    wait......

    am I doing this right ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭hungry hypno toad


    frag420 wrote: »
    No two cornflakes are the same....

    No two corn crakes are the same either.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,462 ✭✭✭valoren


    That someone could spend 7 years on a forum and only post 25 times.

    Scorpio!
    He'll sting you with his dreams, of power and wealth.
    Beware of... Scorpio!


  • Registered Users Posts: 24 crubbeens


    That someone could spend 7 years on a forum and only post 25 times.

    9 years, 12 posts!


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,462 ✭✭✭valoren


    crubbeens wrote: »
    9 years, 12 posts!

    crubbeens!
    He'll sting you with his dreams, of power and wealth.
    Beware of... crubeens!

    :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,991 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    That Pi never repeats itself, how can you have infinite arrangements of a finite number of digits (1-9).

    Also, that the odds of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 coming up in the Lotto are the exact same as the odds of any other random specific set of numbers.
    I don't play the lotto, mostly because I'm very aware of how long the odds are, but if I did, I'm never picking the first consecutive set of numbers, or any other consecutive set.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


    For me it's the birthday thing. If you put 23 random people in a room there's a 50% chance 2 will have same birthday. If you put 75 people, that rises to 99.9% possibility. I've seen the maths, I know it's true, I still don't believe it though.

    Link: https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/


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  • Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭sparksfly


    That its not butter


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