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The way I visualised this was as having two sets of apples, both infinite. Set N 's apples are labelled (1,2,3...), whereas set 2 N 's apples are labelled (2,4,6...). Still the same (infinite) amount of apples, they're just labelled differently. Nice. That's a good way to visualize it. :) Back to y...

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Sure, tinfoil hats would usually tend to act like a Faraday cage, but the amusing link I included in my last post shows they can actually do the opposite in certain cases / frequency ranges. Note that this is all tongue-in-cheek; don't get too serious with it. :wink: But this is a conspiracy theory...

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Tinfoil won't help. It's conductive. Do you not know what a Faraday cage is? Actually, Isaac is right. Tinfoil hats are no Faraday cage; they amplify signals. :mrgreen: The basis of my reply rests on the following words: The notion that a tin foil hat can significantly reduce the intensity of incid...

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Basically if one assumes all elements of the (2,4,6...) set to have the same 'traits' (i.e. they do not have any distinguishing characteristics aside from being individual elements of a particular set), and one also assumes the same for all elements of the (1,2,3...) set, then they have the same am...

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flip wrote:Tinfoil won't help. It's conductive.

Do you not know what a Faraday cage is?

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Here's a decent explanation, but really you just have to think through what cardinality means, and what a bijection does. For example, in the first exercise, you can make a very simple bijective map from the (1, 2, 3...) set to the (2, 4, 6...) set by just doubling. Go through it, you'll find that ...

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L : <---o---> r : o---> Yes, that's essentially what they are. How, then, can they have the same cardinality? They have the same cardinality (i.e. the same "level of infinity") because there's a bijection (i.e. "1-1 correspondence", "injective surjective mapping") from...

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If there is an exact 1-to-1 correspondence (both '1-to-1' and 'onto') between L (line) and r (ray), then why make the distinction? It seems counter-intuitive. :? Rays and lines are different, simply by definition. Also, you were the one who made the distinction by (incorrectly) suggesting there was...

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I have one more question relating to the concept of infinity. Am I correct in visualising the difference in "sizes of infinity" (worded improperly, I'm sure, but hopefully it gets the idea across well enough) by referencing the difference between a line and a ray in geometry? One being in...

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CUDA wrote:I rememer when you took math in school you actually had to sdd it up in your head, calculators were not allowed.

I remember this too, despite being (mostly) homeschooled. Do they not do this anymore?

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Washington?

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I remember my dad had one of those old channel-dial-knob black and white TVs when I was little, and I remember when everyone had landline, corded phones and cells only existed as the communicator from TOS. We had a rotary phone too, but it was my grandmother's old one from when she was younger so I ...

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I know I'm still what you lot might consider a young'un at the tender age of 27, but I have been having a massive attack of nostalgia recently. See, I grew up with a Commodore 64/128, played with marbles and jacks, and can actually remember a time before the Internet existed, unlike most others my a...

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...I'm holding off.. until Foil replies to my earlier question, though. This one? ... could an algorithm or equation of some sort be formulated that would describe, mathematically, a multiverse (set a ) that contains all other universes including a paradoxical multiverse (set n ) that contains ever...

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I suppose a little perspective on matters would be too much to ask? Why are we fighting over who has the most oil or the biggest guns when it all amounts to jack **** in the end? Why does it matter so much who is right, or 'in power'? We're talking the continued existence of humanity here, and the ...

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Well, here we go. I had to dismantle my computer earlier so I couldn't reply in full, but I've got it cobbled back together now, so without further ado... MD aren't you getting into Brane theory and universes being created along the membrane boundaries to encompass your multiverse ideas? I certainly...

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Ferno wrote:
MD-1118 wrote:from my cell.
what...

PHONE. Cell PHONE.

Geez, Ferno...

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Clam down you guys. I'll reply to all of you, and I'll get us back on track, but my computer is down at the moment and I just can't reply to everything from my cell. By the end of the day though, promise. And Ferno? You'll get your interesting thread. (After all, we haven't even touched on modal rea...

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ThugsRook wrote:gullible would be if you actually believed they went to the moon

Oh, you're a card, you are! Do you say that because the earth is actually flat, or because the little green men would never allow it?

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MD, I would argue that the groundwork that might pay off in a couple thousand generations(well before your fears would ever become reality) lie in what is today's basic research in the fields of physics, biology, astronomy and the like. A lot of what has become practical human knowledge is built up...

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You guys weren't righteously outraged when Bush was re-elected after starting a war in Iraq by lying about WMDs, linked Saddam to AQ, and then declared "Mission Accomplished" in 2003. It is amusing, I remember some of you complaining about how the press wouldn't let Bush off the hook for ...

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Heh, prosthetic and the like are hardly "augmentations". You draw that line where ever you will, by the time you realize that too far is too far it will be too late. Tech is the new religion so meh. It's a tool and nothing more. Right now our connectivity is exceeding our ability to moral...

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No, I understood what you were thinking. But you went off base when you tried to equate an empty set with the set of all self-contradictory sets. You can't "fix" something self-contradictory by introducing something else self-contradictory into it. Still not sure how that ties to your cha...

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So getting an unverified posting from a terrorist group claiming responsibility--a posting that said group later retracted--and not immediately running with it as the gospel truth of the situation now constitutes "lying"? Do I really need to explain how many two-bit militia groups jump at...

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tunnelcat wrote:Definitely!

PM incoming...

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Now here's my proposition - set a contains all sets, including set n , which is a null set. Is it mathematically sound to posit that this null set is comprised of all sets which cannot logically exist, such as the self-contained set a ...? No, by definition. ...Where are you going with this? Nowher...

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nope I'm saying you're being willfully ignorant by not looking into it yourself. they knew within 2 hours it was a terrorist attack, so then why did they report it as being cause by a video. and why did the president go before the UN 2 weeks later and say the same thing 6 times. the administration ...

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Alright, let's see what we've got. *looks up from calibrating his EMP wristwatch* "oh... maybe later" :twisted2: MD-1118, since you link imagination with reality, I imagine that you're out of your mind. ;) I'm almost definitely out of my mind, it's a bit cramped in there for me. :D So MD, ...

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and yet the question remains Well, which sources related to the original topic do you consider credible? (Would you look at that, answer a question with a question and problem solved) Wrong. The highest crime against humanity is willful ignorance. you should take heed to your own words So you're sa...

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I watch credits for a few reasons. One, for the music. Two, because of the stuff they put after it nowadays. Three, I look for first and middle names of people I know (it's like a game, I guess). And four, for information. I certainly hope they don't stop making them anytime in the near future.

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I'd say the Dems had a much harder time with the OWS crowd or even scarier, they condoned OWS's actions. :wink: Well, you know you can't herd hippies don't you? :P The Republicans are condoning the tea party because if they alienate them, they risk losing what gains they won in 2010. :wink: No, we ...

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Just because YOU don't consider the source credible is irrelevant to this discussion. and your approval of the source doesn't change the facts that have been presented. and your blind denial doesn't absolve those involved from their responsibility. maybe it would be in your best interest to follow ...

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weather manipulation would be/is the highest crime against humanity. wouldnt you be interested in finding out what HAARP is responsible for since '96? katrina? japan? global warming? ;) Wrong. The highest crime against humanity is willful ignorance. And did you know astronauts carved the word 'gull...

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v4, meatbags. Yep, it's that time again . Modal realism is the topic this time! Well, that and transhumanism. My audacity knows no bounds, apparently, and neither does my imagination. I've had a while to mull since the last thread, and have come up with more crackpot hypotheses in the interim. Hope ...

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case by case basis To be fair though, once you join the military, they own you, body and soul. To be fair they are not my legal guardian. I am under a contractual obligation. nothing more A contract that is legally binding. Also you become their responsibility. Okay, so you're saying that it is the...

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Just because YOU don't consider the source credible is irrelevant to this discussion. and your approval of the source doesn't change the facts that have been presented. and your blind denial doesn't absolve those involved from their responsibility. maybe it would be in your best interest to follow ...

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Don't you guys ever get lost in all the innuendo? :cry: Whoops, back on topic: Just because YOU don't consider the source credible is irrelevant to this discussion. and your approval of the source doesn't change the facts that have been presented. and your blind denial doesn't absolve those involved...

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Nope, if you are emancipated you should be treated as an adult. If you are homeless because you got kicked out then the responsibility should still fall upon the parents. An emancipated minor is a minor who is allowed to conduct a business or any other occupation on his or her own behalf or for the...

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Spidey wrote:What’s that for…paranoid clan members…

Nope! Coneheads.

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Here guys, you forgot this:

Everyone knows that lasers and cyclotrons are where it's at nowadays.

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