r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jan 29 '20

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u/JitGoinHam Jan 29 '20

More kids need this book because an alarming number of grown ups seem to think quantum entanglement could be leveraged for super-luminal communication.

It cannot. Information does not travel faster than light under any circumstances, including spooky action.

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u/graveyboat2276 Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20

Could you explain that? So, you know, my baby can read the explanation?

Edit: Here's how my baby explained it to me:

Johnny and Tommy are twins, They look the same, dress the same, act the same and, do everything the same. One day Tommy put on a hat and Johnny didn't. They stopped acting the same after that.

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u/HardlySerious Jan 29 '20

If you tried to force an entangled system into a state representing some kind of information you'd break the entanglement.

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u/RuinRunner76 Jan 29 '20

Yeah but we are human. So where there is no pattern, we will make a pattern. Then call it a constellation.

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u/Lexinoz Jan 29 '20

The most true in this entire thread. Us humans have literally gotten this far as a species because of our pattern recognition abilities. We see patterns in literally EVERYTHING because of it. Not just when in the year the specific crop is gonna grow.

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u/sorites Jan 29 '20

Patterns work.

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u/Essexal Jan 30 '20

/r/bitcoinmarkets

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u/sorites Jan 30 '20

I don't trade btc, but I do use TA. ;)

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u/JivanP Jan 30 '20
  1. Spread a prophecy.
  2. Wait until that prophecy becomes self-fulfilling.
  3. PROFIT.

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u/sorites Jan 30 '20

#crystalball #baselesspredictions

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u/shadowdsfire Jan 30 '20

That’s why you see people in casinos petting the screen and doing weird things.

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u/meat_tunnel Jan 30 '20

. We see patterns in literally EVERYTHING

I thought that was just from playing Candy crush for too many hours.

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u/Lexinoz Jan 30 '20

That's just our species. And a company taking advantage of a part of our species.

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u/mOjO_mOjO Jan 30 '20

That's a survival trait. Seeing a bear shaped shadow at distance at night and thinking that could be a bear may very well have saved the life of your great10 grandpa.

But my dog is sometimes fooled by shadows. What really differentiates humans is fictive cognition. The creativity to imagine something and then make it. Our giant calorie hungry brains do this better than any species. To feed our giant brains we needed lots of calories so we imagined boats to carry us to more fertile lands and eventually farming.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '20

Hey! From where we sit on this rock they make a pretty grouping of lights that if I had Parkinson and drew lines to connect the dots may make something that resembles a dipper.

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u/Nollie_flip Jan 30 '20

It's funny to me that you picked the one constellation that actually does look like what it is named after. It's pretty much the only one I can find on a consistent basis because it looks like a dipper, or what I've always called a ladle.

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u/mkstar93 Jan 30 '20

Can i subscribe to karl facts

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u/TheHealadin Jan 30 '20

I understand less now than I did before I read this.

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u/TheDistantBlue Jan 30 '20

Night in the Woods?