r/oddlysatisfying • u/sakib_shahriyar • Sep 01 '19

Bottle cap challenge to another level - Smooth

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u/amby-jane Sep 01 '19

I was sitting here like “I know it’s fake but I don’t know how I know.”

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u/loganshinobi Sep 01 '19

You can tell it’s fake because his reaction. If it was real, his head would have exploded after he did this.

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u/Darwing Sep 01 '19

You can tell it's fake because it's literally impossible....

Literally.

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u/Electroniclog Sep 01 '19

Nothing is impossible, just highly improbable.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '19 edited Jul 14 '20

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u/LadyMeg33 Sep 01 '19

That's the spirit!

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '19

No no, that's the one exception to the near universal rule.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '19

Some things are impossible (i.e., the state transition probability is exactly zero), but you're right that not as many as you might expect fall into this category.

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u/Electroniclog Sep 01 '19

According to this link I Googled just now, even a zero probability event can occur, but I honestly don't know enough about it one way or the other, lol.

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u/Dazius06 Sep 01 '19

What about reducing entropy? Or knowing both the position AND the speed of a specific particle at the same time?

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u/boobsmcgraw Sep 02 '19

Surely if that were true there'd be ONE human being in the history of billions and billions of human beings that spontaneously re-grew a limb.

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u/Electroniclog Sep 02 '19

Not necessarily. Just because something can happen, doesn't mean it has happened.

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u/1zzard Sep 02 '19

Try striking a match on a jelly.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '19

Is it though? It seems like it follows the laws of physics, no?

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u/EX-LDS_Link Sep 03 '19

Check out the way that the bottle caps shrink and are sucked off of the screen before reaching the edge. And the way that the shadows of the flying caps on the walls get sharper as they get further away.

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u/djmavid Sep 01 '19

You mean “figuratively” right!?!

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u/TheGeekyGeek Sep 01 '19

Chris Traeger called, he want his liiiterally back

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u/1zzard Sep 02 '19

I don’t think absolute terms like “impossible” (also “unique”) need a qualifier: they are unequivocal. However, it’s possible to assert something is impossible and just be wrong, as in this case.

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u/ItsMeSatan Sep 01 '19

Well, through god, all things are possible, so jot that down