aliens were real all along thread

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Proof??

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if you want to make an impressively big number using exponents, why not go with sub-atomic particles instead?

do you know how many of THOSE little fuckers there are?

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I want to do acid

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dude same

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The entire point is that you cant raise a number to an exponent of like 90 because that resulting number would be larger than the amount of the smallest stuff in the entire universe

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i have a fantasy where me and a bunch of senior year film students all do copious amounts of drugs and sit around in a dark room watching Soviet era art house films for 14 hours with no breaks

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actually I don't, I just thought of that, but it sounds like a great time

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I see, that makes sense

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I mean technically the number could exist right? it's just rather pointless for us to talk about since it would have more digits than could fit in this entire website, maybe every website

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The total number of atoms in the observable universe is 10^78

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He wanted smaller stuff

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Its actually insane that the total ways to deal a deck of cards is roughly equal to the number of atoms in the observable universe

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Statistics thread?

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hell yeah, i find that shit interesting but i need someone to explain it to me

go off

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Ewiz would love that. Should I summon him?
Just kidding. Fuck that guy.

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I've seen a a really good explanation of how big 52! actually is.

  • Set a timer to count down 52! seconds (that's 8.0658x10^67 seconds)
  • Stand on the equator, and take a step forward every billion years
  • When you've circled the earth once, take a drop of water from the Pacific Ocean, and keep going
  • When the Pacific Ocean is empty, lay a sheet of paper down, refill the ocean and carry on.
  • When your stack of paper reaches the sun, take a look at the timer.

The 3 left-most digits won't have changed. 8.063x10^67 seconds left to go. You have to repeat the whole process 1000 times to get 1/3 of the way through that time. 5.385x10^67 seconds left to go.

So to kill that time you try something else.

  • Shuffle a deck of cards, deal yourself 5 cards every billion years
  • Each time you get a royal flush, buy a lottery ticket
  • Each time that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand in the grand canyon
  • When the grand canyon's full, take 1oz of rock off Mount Everest, empty the canyon and carry on.
  • When Everest has been levelled, check the timer.

There's barely any change. 5.364x10^67 seconds left. You'd have to repeat this process 256 times to have run out the timer.

Still a big number

Yep, just a bit.

Source (including all the data used to get these results)

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People drastically overestimate the frequency that incomprehensibly rare things happen

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Is my argument

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Life may be very rare, but with 400 billion stars in our galaxy, it is inevitable.

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We just established thst 400b is nothing