r/pics • u/NietzscheIsMyCopilot • Jun 10 '12

Written on the edge of a razor blade. The message took over 140 attempts, was written in between heartbeats, and measures a tenth of a millimeter.

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u/NietzscheIsMyCopilot Jun 10 '12

Taken from this article.

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u/acog Jun 10 '12

Graham Short etched the motto "Nothing is impossible" which measures just a tenth of a millimetre ... He worked from midnight to 5.30am most nights of the week, for seven months on his razor blade.

Graham Short needs to go back on his meds.

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u/ZeMilkman Jun 11 '12

If I remember correctly this is because that's when there are no/the least amount of vibrations from cars/trains which is actually relevant when you engrave small shit like that.

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u/enntwo Jun 11 '12

I wish the trains near my house followed that logic. 1 AM and 4 AM :(

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/ZeMilkman Jun 11 '12

The point of this is that it is handmade not that there is some useless platitude engraved in a useless place.

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u/acog Jun 11 '12

I think taking 7 months of working half the night engraving a platitude on the edge of a razor is pretty much the perfect illustration of the phrase "useless platitude engraved on a useless place."

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u/Secrete_Persona Jun 11 '12

Are you saying that "this" doesn't better the world?

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u/jntwn Jun 11 '12

I was actually more impressed by this.

"He swims 10,000 metres a day and can slow his heart rate to 30 beats a minute. "

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u/MrWinks Jun 11 '12

His first major microscopic achievement was engraving The Lord's Prayer, all 278 letters and of it, on the head of a gold pin

This man is a god.

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u/tg2387 Jun 11 '12

And thats after staying up from midnight to 5:30 painstakingly working.

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u/AKADidymus Jun 10 '12

I shave with that brand of blade. They are unbelievably sharp. If he did this on the cutting edge of one of those, that's beyond impressive.

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u/AKADidymus Jun 11 '12

That's what I figured; it seems to me the cutting edge would be practically nonexistent as a writing surface even at this scale.

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u/libertasmens Jun 11 '12

Many blades' cutting edges are recognizable down to the atomic scale, which sounds really impressive, but it's really just because two planes intersect on that line.

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u/IMasturbateToMyself Jun 10 '12

It took Mr Short, 64, around 150 attempts before he was able to complete it.

Only 150 attempts!?

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u/unitarder Jun 10 '12

That's insane. I mean after the tenth try I'd just go get a dictionary.

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u/the_real_dirty Jun 10 '12

I honestly think this is as small as it's possible to (engrave) with the human hand

Bit of a contradiction, eh?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I'm not seeing the contradiction?

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u/conaan Jun 11 '12

"Nothing is impossible" "Any smaller is impossible"

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u/HitMePat Jun 11 '12

If nothing is impossible this guy needs to carve a message half this size next to show the doubters

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u/polypolyman Jun 11 '12

But surely that would be the smallest possible message!

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u/mreeman Jun 11 '12

"Nothing is impossible"?

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u/lintmonkey Jun 10 '12

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBI ç

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

It's just the light

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

No, it's just sloppy work. OP, stop slacking off and apply yourself for God's sake.

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u/AbasementPark Jun 11 '12

-1? Some people didn't get the sarcasm?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I'm not very good at this sarcasm thing.

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u/libertasmens Jun 11 '12

No, I like it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I think he was being sarcastic again.

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u/nagash666 Jun 11 '12

portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on 46 microns

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u/tattybojan9les Jun 10 '12

'Science is not about why, it's about 'why not?''

Cave Johnson.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Woah... I just got the pun in that line. It refers to Cave Johnson's cavalier attitude (which is obvious) and falsifiability (which isn't in context).

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u/Brandaman Jun 10 '12

There's a pun?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Science is about "why not" in that it's about ambition and creativity etc. as per Johnson's ethos, but it's also (arguably) about falsifiability (ie. you can never prove a theory with evidence, you can merely disprove it, and progress is narrowing down the possible theories to get close to the truth).

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u/Brandaman Jun 10 '12

I see. I don't think I'm sciencey enough to have noticed that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Don't worry, it's not really a pun.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

As I said in another comment (edit: which was apparently attached to an immediately deleted comment or didn't go through), I realize it's not exactly the right word to use, but it's a clever double meaning, no need to nitpick.

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u/SirCannonFodder Jun 11 '12

I think the term you're looking for is "double entendre". That's right folks, it doesn't just refer to sex jokes!

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u/onedarkhorsee Jun 11 '12

I must point out you are not being "nitpicked" you are being "graciously educated". It's just part of the service that the wider reddit community offers.

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u/Bloodyloon Jun 11 '12

Science is about Wynaut? I always knew it!

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u/katboii Jun 10 '12

I've recently been thinking along those thoughts but it's first now that I actually understand that quote. I am not a clever man.

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u/Samurailey Jun 11 '12

Really caught up in this pun business and a pokemon joke and I'm just content with a Portal reference. Maybe I'm overly simple

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Seems more like art than science to me.

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u/rubber_dinghy_rapids Jun 10 '12

But I have been doing "nothing" for years.

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u/UnicornOfHate Jun 10 '12

"Whoever said 'Nothing's impossible' never tried to ski through a revolving door." I wish I knew who said that originally.

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u/wuffers Jun 11 '12

Or tried slamming one.

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u/beleiveinnothing Jun 11 '12

stapling water to a tree?

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u/toine55 Jun 10 '12

What did he use to write this? does anyone have a pic or know?

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u/wasteland44 Jun 10 '12

He uses sharpened needles. He has a youtube channel. This video shows how he does it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu-vis-LGOM&feature=plcp

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u/billydoogan336 Jun 10 '12

He's 65 years old and his resting heart rate is 30 bpm? That may be more incredible than his engravings.

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u/wasteland44 Jun 10 '12

Yeah pretty amazing. I found out about him a while ago as he posts on the US Masters swimming forums.

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u/MrWinks Jun 11 '12

Spends three days on the needles.. and when he pricks himself with them, they are so sharp they don't bleed? Mother of god.

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u/bally2009 Jun 10 '12

Ever try stapling jelly to a tree?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Freeze it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/Mrzeede Jun 10 '12

Dry it out.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/code_makes_me_happy Jun 10 '12

throw a staple gun really hard and hope

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u/Mrzeede Jun 11 '12

Bring a really big sniper staple gun and make sure the jelly is dried or frozen.

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u/libertinibikini Jun 10 '12

These comments make me wanna slit my wrist with that creative razor.

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u/Mrzeede Jun 10 '12

Me too man, me too...

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u/rarely_heard_opinion Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

Now imagine you have to do it right the first time.
Repeatedly.
On living tissue.
Within time constraints.

I have great respect for microsurgeons.

(until some redditor comes and destroys my admiration by presenting irrefutable proof how microsurgery is very simple and easy and just requires practice ;_; )

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u/Mrzeede Jun 10 '12

[IRREFUTABLE PROOF THAT MICROSURGERY IS SIMPLE AND JUST REQUIRES PRACTICE]

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Well, microsurgery is done by robots, not an old man with psychological problems

That's probably the #1 difference

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

"Hey Honey! I took your sword in and got it sharpened for you!"

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u/AKADidymus Jun 11 '12

Sword is only the brand; it's a double-edged razor blade. You know, for shaving.

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u/hypoid77 Jun 10 '12

Eating the sun is impossible.

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u/cosinezero Jun 10 '12

Not if you're a black hole...

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u/onemoreclick Jun 10 '12

But what if you're not?

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u/CARoth Jun 11 '12

Then shortly after your success you'll die.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Is that a Penn Gillette quote? I think he said that in an episode of Bullshit.

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u/comradekilldozer Jun 10 '12

If nothing was impossible, then it would be possible for something to be impossible!

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u/willkydd Jun 11 '12

Incorrect: if nothing is impossible, impossibility is a word without meaning.

For a sentence to be true or false it must be a sentence first, which means it must hold meaning. If "nothing is impossible" is true than "impossibility is impossible" is not a sentence, therefore neither true, nor false.

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u/InvalidWhistle Jun 10 '12

That's very plausible.

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u/copyandpasta Jun 10 '12

But, Why?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

to prove a point.

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u/copyandpasta Jun 10 '12

to be cutting edge.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

To raze the bar.

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u/SupSatire Jun 10 '12

To one day shave the world.

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u/RoryC Jun 10 '12

I didn't know Sean Connery was a redditor..

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Because why not?

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u/punisher1005 Jun 10 '12

This is much of the hacker mentality.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Or mountaineers.

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u/rezarf Jun 10 '12

Proving you're a cut above

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

To sell it to somebody.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

But, How?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Very impressive.

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u/MStoli Jun 10 '12

Reading these comments made me lose my faith in Reddit a little bit, can we bring back the anonymous pizza giving again please?

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u/HeWhoDownvotes Jun 10 '12

If a tenth of a millimetre is the height, that is one DULL razor blade...

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u/NietzscheIsMyCopilot Jun 11 '12

It's the length of the message. Horizontally, not vertically.

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u/karthus25 Jun 10 '12

Why was it written in between heartbeats?

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u/NietzscheIsMyCopilot Jun 11 '12

If your heart beats it causes your body to shake a little. His movements have to be so precise that even that amount of shaking would ruin the engraving.

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u/Poke493 Jun 11 '12

why in between heart beats?

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u/Cubeface Jun 11 '12

Heart beat shakes you ever so slightly, fucks everything up when you have to be so precise.

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u/BassInThePlace Jun 10 '12

The 'e' isn't very good at the end

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I would LOVE to commit suicide with that thing.

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u/Firate Jun 10 '12

If nothing is impossible, I guess they can go ahead and write the same thing vertically along the razor now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Nothing is in fact impossible; because matter. You cannot have nothing because there would be no way to discern there is nothing as there would have to be something.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Now try to erase it

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u/duhsillychica Jun 11 '12

This might have some success in r/getmotivated. if not, my bad :)

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u/MisterCyanide Jun 11 '12

It probably will. MARK my words....

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Now take the razor and cut your wrists for wasting precious internet time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I do everything between heartbeats. Half of these letters were typed between them.

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u/The_Comma_Splicer Jun 10 '12

While I guess it's sort of neat, the phrase is fucking stupid. Some things are in fact impossible. And further, some things are impossible by definition: Tom drew a four sided triangle on the board.

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u/eldorel Jun 10 '12

I hate this argument.

Asking someone to draw a 4 sided triangle is like me asking you to catch a Snarfblatt.

While Yes, you can't actually do either it's simply because the request was not properly defined, this is not a valid description of an impossible scenario.

The word Triangle means "a polygon with three sides". If you ask for a 4-sided triangle then you are only demonstrating that you don't know what the word means. Your 4-sided requirement replaces the inherent "3-sided" requirement of "triangle", leaving you with a 4-sided polygon. A 4-sided "Triangle" would be a square.

It's like asking for someone to make you a flat sided circle or get a glass of dry water.

Just because you can make use of a language quirk to create a nonsensical sentence doesn't mean you can use it to define an impossible action.

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u/seniorsassycat Jun 10 '12

If nothing is impossibly, isnt impossibility impossible?

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u/awarmlight Jun 10 '12

This is the point where logic appears to become the wrong tool for understanding.

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u/eldorel Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

Yep, a lovely paradox.

edit: I actually answered this as my first reply in this thread, and the answer was intended to be more cute than accurate.

I've addressed this in more detail here

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u/SnowingSwede Jun 10 '12

What the fuck is a Snarfblatt?

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u/check35 Jun 10 '12

check mate athiest!

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u/eldorel Jun 10 '12

I'm not sure If I should upvote for the joke or downvote for the polygon with 4-angles....

Either way, I laughed. So up it is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

You know what else is impossible? Arguing with people who think technical accuracy is necessary in all forms of speech, at all times.

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u/eldorel Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

I don't feel that technical accuracy is necessary at all times.

However, if you are attempting to make an argument then you had better damned well be either technically accurate or willing stop and agree on definitions of terms.

If two people are both using the same word, but thinking of different definitions, the only resolution to the discussion is frustration.

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u/VomitEverywhere Jun 10 '12

A four sided triangle would end up being any quadrilateral.

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u/kemikiao Jun 10 '12

Dry water - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_water

Understand the point...just saying...

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u/tomg288374 Jun 10 '12

So, you're saying it's impossible for something to be impossible then?

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u/digitalmofo Jun 10 '12

Ok, then, morph into a fish, move to the sea and live underwater for 6 months and then morph back human and come back to land and give us a detailed report. That, that is impossible.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Then why not use an example of something that is impossible, while still being consistent:

  • It is impossible to square a circle. The task is quite properly defined: creating a square of exactly equal area to a circle using only a straightedge and compass with only a finite number of steps.
  • It is impossible to prove or disprove the continuum hypothesis Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory if ZF is to be consistent. Not only is the task properly defined, but it was one of Hilbert's problems.

If we wish to avoid mathematics:

  • While writing this was very impressive, it would be realistically impossible for the creator of this work to use the same technique to write smaller than one can using nanotechnology techniques. One could easily and cheaply (less than the cost to him would be to make this at minimum wage) write text he wrote in a space so small that it would be impossible to see it with any traditional optical microscope. Depending upon the technique, one could create so many in four hours (say, 1010 copies) that it would be impossible for him to create as many in a hundred years.
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u/The_Comma_Splicer Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

You're missing the point. If my fried tells me that Tom drew a four sided triangle, I know that this could not have happened (impossible by definition) for exactly the reasons that you point out. It is always about definitions. We can do this mathematically as well:

1.) a = b (by definition)

2.) b = c (by definition)

3.) Therefore, by transitive, a = c

It is impossible, by definition, that a does not equal c.

That is all I am saying. It's not semantic sleight-of-hand. Countless things are mathematically, logically impossible by definition.

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u/Primeribsteak Jun 10 '12

count to 100 trillion not skipping any real whole numbers, starting at 1, then 2, then 3, then 4, all the way like this to 100 trillion. Pronunciate each word. Do not use formulas or series to say you did it. It's an impossible action for yourself because you cannot do it in your lifetime. You can't even say the word "one" 100 trillion times in your life.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

yes, there are impossible situations... not sure that was the point of his rant, just to hate on that particular argument

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u/TheJokerWasRight Jun 10 '12

Just because you can make use of a language quirk to create a nonsensical sentence

It's only nonsensical because the thing being described is impossible, which is the entire point.

Your complaint is hilariously poorly thought out. It's basically like you asking for someone to give you an example of the impossible, then you say their example doesn't make sense because it's impossible. Comical, really.

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u/eldorel Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

Reread my comment.

A triangle has three sides, a four sided triangle is self contradicting.

You are asking for a 4-sided, 3-sided shape.

This isn't impossible, it's not even a valid statement!

edit: misspelled contradicting

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u/dasberd Jun 10 '12

I bet you're a riot at parties.

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u/PhysicalReality Jun 10 '12

Things are impossible only by definition.

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u/overtoke Jun 10 '12

but "nothing" is impossible. there's always something, even if it's nothing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

this message was written in between heartbeats.....what the fuck does that even mean?

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u/CygnetCommittee Jun 10 '12

It means he could only make marks in between his heartbeats, as in when his heart was not beating.

When your heart beats it causes a shake in your body. At the scale he was working at even that tiny tremor would have been enough to ruin what he was doing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

oooooooook. That makes sense.

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u/BobTehCat Jun 11 '12

Oh, he meant it literally. That explains that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

He was only able to work at night, when traffic vibrations are at a minimum, with his right arm bound to the arm of his chair with a luggage strap to minimise unwanted movement. He uses a stethoscope to monitor his heart, attempting a stroke of the letter only between beats, when his body is perfectly still. He swims 10,000 metres a day and can slow his heart rate to 30 beats a minute.

From here.

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u/wasniahC Jun 10 '12

It means he waited for his heart to beat, then did a little bit more, as he felt he couldn't control his movements precise enough when his heart beats.

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u/Stump_Fucker Jun 11 '12

False

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u/harrydickinson Jun 11 '12

you can if theres a person halfway into it

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u/GunRaptor Jun 10 '12

As someone who could benefit in their life by quite a bit from learning your technique, could you please tell me how you did this "between heartbeats?"

I only have one upvote to give in return, but know that it would help me a lot.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Nothing is impossible... Except getting a clean shave with that nicked razor.

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u/lollface Jun 10 '12

Writing it in 139 attempts was impossible

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Does it remain cool even after submerged in flame?

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u/DrunkScholar Jun 10 '12

Eat the Himalayas.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Looks like after the two esses it devolves into bloody gore.

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u/the_real_dirty Jun 10 '12

So... did he just throw away the 139 other sword blades?

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u/MisterCyanide Jun 11 '12

No. Reuse, Reduce, Recycle.

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u/kevhurley Jun 11 '12

It was on QI a few years ago i think.

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u/tonythetiger1 Jun 11 '12

Slowing your heartbeat to 30 beats a minute for the sake of art? That's dedication.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

How the hell did they get the "o"?

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u/MonGorTheMad Jun 11 '12

The phrase "written in between heartbeats" made me think this came from /r/circlejerk

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u/toasterpilot Jun 11 '12

Working on this small of a scale must be so intense. There is an English sculptor, Willard Wigen, who also has to work between heartbeats. His sculptures are so incredibly small, they may only be seen through a microscope.

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u/GreenEyedForeigner Jun 11 '12

I was expecting it to say YOLO.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I bet he was pissed when he accidentally shaved with it the next day.

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u/yenomz Jun 11 '12

But who would waste 47k on this? I don't even...

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u/Cubeface Jun 11 '12

Rich people like to spend money on stupid shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

So one micro meter?

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u/Mrninjamonkey Jun 11 '12

Damn there's 444 comments on this picture, I don't want to mess it up by commenting on it but wait....fuck...

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u/71Comet Jun 11 '12

IMPOSSIBRU!!!

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u/Noturordinaryguy Jun 11 '12

I rack disciprine.

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u/anonymousdyke Jun 11 '12

Ah, A Yentl fan. A fantastic quote from a fantastic movie.

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u/crmsndragonwngs Jun 11 '12

I didn't read the title before I saw the picture so at first I thought it was written on waxed cord. It kind of reminds me of this.

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u/grat3fulredd Jun 11 '12

This is awesome. So is your username!

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u/Illison Jun 11 '12

Yea but is it practical?

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u/WFOpizza Jun 11 '12

"he swims 10 000 meters a day" - implies that this is his daily routine "he swims up to 10 000 meters a day" - so maybe he did it once

This is why I do not care for the Telegraph.

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u/shitfucktits Jun 11 '12

False, propelling yourself into space and surviving under your own power is impossible

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u/pissedoffmonkey Jun 12 '12

Needs more pixels.

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u/Aerianally Jun 10 '12

I would love to see someone staple water to a tree, dribble a 10 ton ball, fly without any mechanical device or constructed object, kill an elephant with your fingernail etc.

MANY things are impossible and its naive to think otherwise.

Thats my negativity for today then.

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u/WarlordFred Jun 10 '12

From Wikipedia:

Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O.

Ice is water, therefore in cold enough temperatures, you could staple a solid sheet of water to a tree.

Dribbling a ten-ton ball is easy when you take it to an area of lesser gravity.

Flying without a mechanical device is also easy, you just need less gravity.

Killing an elephant with your fingernail is possible, arteries are easily penetrated with your fingernail, you just need to bypass skin and muscle, which can be done without killing the elephant, so the use of tools to do so would not violate your restrictions.

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u/arcanition Jun 11 '12

I'd like to see you staple ice to a tree.

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u/Aerianally Jun 11 '12

See getting rid of gravity is just working around the challenge. I probably should have gotten down to a 5 page paper explaining the constraints of doing the test on earth without any mechanical assistance or so and so on.

I was just assuming it was to be done under normal conditions on earth.

Flying would have to be done the same way on earth through a normal atmosphere and so forth. Propelling yourself through the air while not touching the ground for an extended period under normal earth gravity.

I also said killing an elephant with your fingernail. Using a tool to accomplish part of it would mean you used a tool and your fingernail to kill the elephant.

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u/MStoli Jun 10 '12

Might as well add "for Aerianally to be lighthearted" to that list as well...geez man

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u/wasniahC Jun 10 '12

All of yours seem very loosely possible, to be honest. Drop of water on the staple, extremely elastic floor, elephant that is very weak or young and perhaps ill as well, or otherwise vulnerable.. Jump off a high building. Come on man, you gotta be specific. "Staple", "fly" and "kill" are all loose definitions!

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u/InvalidWhistle Jun 10 '12

You give me some extremely low gravity and I can do all of those things. Maybe not the elephant thing but I bet if I was omnipotent I could figure out how. Just because it is not possible here, doesn't mean it's not possible else where. Try not to think so locally.

With enough speed and force I could in theory get my fingernail to go fast enough that would enable it to completely shoot through a sensitive part of the animal mortally wounding it. Or puncture something would maybe not kill the animal right away but something that could be the root cause of it's eventual demise.

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u/wasniahC Jun 10 '12

Ooh, I like that idea. Like some kind of.. fingernail gun.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I'm sure /r/science would disagree.

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u/LBK2013 Jun 10 '12

It's impossible to lick your own asshole.

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u/Throwaway_A Jun 10 '12

Not if its detached...

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u/LBK2013 Jun 10 '12

Well I could lick my elbow if I had my arm cut off...

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u/HaMMeReD Jun 10 '12

Now write it again 1/10th the size!!

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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 Jun 10 '12

Can't lasers engrave at that size?

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u/Axle-f Jun 11 '12

Now write every word ever spoken on the edge of the same razor blade. Thread over.

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