Insane Ramblings

[CaptainCrunch]

I had one of those days, where everything just felt strange and weird questions kept popping into my mind. So I wonder . . .

1) While I was shaving this morning, I stared at the reflection and started wondering if I was actually the reflection and the person staring back at me was actually the real person. And did I vanish when he stepped away from the mirror, only to reappear with all of his memories when he stepped in front of a mirror

2) While talking to a friend about Star Trek, I wondered if when a person stepped onto a transporter and was beamed to another location. If the person that stepped onto the transporter pad actually died and the person that stepped off of the pad was a perfect copy and every way and yet not that person.

3) I went to a gas station to fill up my car and saw the truck that refills the station, and I only ever see one truck and its not labeled. How do we in fact know that there are three different types of gas at every gas station, or is this a big oil conspiracy to make us think that we're paying for premium gas when there's no such thing.

4) In cave man days they probably theorized that if you went faster then running speed that your body would explode, then if you rode a horse at a full gallop your body would explode. Then people theorized that if the human body went over 30 mph it would be destroyed by forces beyond our comprehension. Suddenly we broke the sound barrier, and are theoretically looking at breaking the speed of light. What happens if we break the speed of light, is there actually a speed of plaid that we haven't discovered yet.

5) With the way that our solar system is situated that the nearest possible neighboring solar systems are far beyond our ability to travel to. Was this by design? Are we the intergalactic version of an Australian Penal colony?

6) What would happen if the Bronies radicalized?

7) Why does mankind have the ability to have faith, doesn't that go against our dangerously inquisitive nature?

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

3) I went to a gas station to fill up my car and saw the truck that refills the station, and I only ever see one truck and its not labeled. How do we in fact know that there are three different types of gas at every gas station, or is this a big oil conspiracy to make us think that we're paying for premium gas when there's no such thing.

People that tune cars and log for knock would be able to tell pretty quick. I believe at one point Esso had to drop the rating of their 92 to 91 because people figured out it wasn't better than anyone else's 91 for detonation resistance.

[Ashartus]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

2) While talking to a friend about Star Trek, I wondered if when a person stepped onto a transporter and was beamed to another location. If the person that stepped onto the transporter pad actually died and the person that stepped off of the pad was a perfect copy and every way and yet not that person.

That's how I interpret the technology - it dematerializes (disintegrates) you, and creates a copy of you at the destination, and if it really existed you'd never catch me going on one.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

1) While I was shaving this morning, I stared at the reflection and started wondering if I was actually the reflection and the person staring back at me was actually the real person. And did I vanish when he stepped away from the mirror, only to reappear with all of his memories when he stepped in front of a mirror

Take some LSD and try this again, then you will know the truth.

[Kerplunk]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

1) While I was shaving this morning, I stared at the reflection and started wondering if I was actually the reflection and the person staring back at me was actually the real person. And did I vanish when he stepped away from the mirror, only to reappear with all of his memories when he stepped in front of a mirror?

It is an alternate universe, and occasionally they escape. Where do you think left handed people come from?

[Dion]

2) While talking to a friend about Star Trek, I wondered if when a person stepped onto a transporter and was beamed to another location. If the person that stepped onto the transporter pad actually died and the person that stepped off of the pad was a perfect copy and every way and yet not that person.

What if there is a paralell universe where your evil side lives and your evil side ends up materialising on the good side with your good on the bad side?

[CaptainCrunch]

I was thinking about the universe.

If the universe represents everything how can it still be expanding, what is it expanding into it.

Would that mean that Alternative universes are shrinking?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Ashartus

That's how I interpret the technology - it dematerializes (disintegrates) you, and creates a copy of you at the destination, and if it really existed you'd never catch me going on one.

What if your evil self was several pounds heavier then you and beamed into your universe. Isn't one of the rules of the universe is that no more matter can be created or added?

Would the additional 20 pounds on a hefty version of evil Kirk cause all of the hyper strings in the universe to bend and break?

[Wormius]

I always wonder why the vein patterns on the right and left hands aren't symmetrical. Also, why do men have more ear and nose hair than women. It should serve the same purpose for both genders, but why am I plucking inch long nose hairs from my nostrils. Or do women just tend to these things more frequently?

[Frequitude]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I always wonder why the vein patterns on the right and left hands aren't symmetrical. Also, why do men have more ear and nose hair than women. It should serve the same purpose for both genders, but why am I plucking inch long nose hairs from my nostrils. Or do women just tend to these things more frequently?

I'd put my money on males being less attracted to hairy females so those hairy ear & nose genes got bred out.

[MolsonInBothHands]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I was thinking about the universe.

If the universe represents everything how can it still be expanding, what is it expanding into it.

Would that mean that Alternative universes are shrinking?

Are there not theories that the universe is continuously expanding and contracting to a singularity, and doing it all over again?

So is this just iteration 3,934,234,235 of the exact same life, to be replayed after the next big bang? Do we really make choices, or is this all pre-determined, based on the organization of my atoms?

[Swift]

Originally Posted by Ashartus

That's how I interpret the technology - it dematerializes (disintegrates) you, and creates a copy of you at the destination, and if it really existed you'd never catch me going on one.

And if you ever were to try one, make sure you're not sharing it with a fly.

[troutman]

7 - there is research that suggests humans have benefitted from having dual analytic/intuitive minds.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I was thinking about the universe.

If the universe represents everything how can it still be expanding, what is it expanding into it.

Would that mean that Alternative universes are shrinking?

The universe is shaped
exactly like the earth
if you go straight long enough
you'll end up where you were

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

4) What happens if we break the speed of light, is there actually a speed of plaid that we haven't discovered yet.



6) What would happen if the Bronies radicalized?

My 2 favorites and absolutely made my day.

[flylock shox]

Originally Posted by Frequitude

I'd put my money on males being less attracted to hairy females so those hairy ear & nose genes got bred out.

Speak for yourself.

Hairy nosed ladies tickle my fancy. Among other things.

[Cube Inmate]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

People that tune cars and log for knock would be able to tell pretty quick. I believe at one point Esso had to drop the rating of their 92 to 91 because people figured out it wasn't better than anyone else's 91 for detonation resistance.

Also, my Wiki-surfing tells me that at a 3-grade pump, there are likely only 2 tanks underground (regular and premium) that are mixed together to give the mid-octane stuff.

[Super-Rye]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

1) While I was shaving this morning, I stared at the reflection and started wondering if I was actually the reflection and the person staring back at me was actually the real person. And did I vanish when he stepped away from the mirror, only to reappear with all of his memories when he stepped in front of a mirror

You either need to drop less acid, or drop more. It is difficult to tell.

[CaptainCrunch]

As I was sitting in a meeting today with nothing to do I was suddenly drifting on the currents of unconcious thought as I reflected on two old sayings that I've been hit with at some time or another.

The first one was "Everyone has a twin somewhere in the world"

The second one is always one that's said after an absolutely crushing breakup. "Hey man don't worry, there's a girl somewhere out there for you"

Well what if my twin somewhere out there managed to find that girl that was out there just for me and they totally hooked up. Should I be upset at her for cheating.

I was re-reading a short story called the Langoliers last night, basically its a story about people who slip out of time and find out that there are creatures that eat the past. It was an amazing concept for the time and basically put forth the theory that time is like a movie film that moves forward frame by frame and the past is just empty sets waiting to be consumed. So it got me thinking that what if you someday invented a time machine and went into the past to kill Hitler would you actually materialize on a world of perfect buildings devoid of life as only living things are aware of the passing of time.

[photon]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

1) While I was shaving this morning, I stared at the reflection and started wondering if I was actually the reflection and the person staring back at me was actually the real person. And did I vanish when he stepped away from the mirror, only to reappear with all of his memories when he stepped in front of a mirror

The real question is does it matter? I don't really think it does.

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

2) While talking to a friend about Star Trek, I wondered if when a person stepped onto a transporter and was beamed to another location. If the person that stepped onto the transporter pad actually died and the person that stepped off of the pad was a perfect copy and every way and yet not that person.

Same response as the first, does it really matter... Forward continuity through time is something we feel we want/need, but doesn't actually exist. Most would say that being disintegrated by the transporter and reassembled from different atoms as an exact copy somewhere else would be death and someone else living, but that's just because we want forward continuity.

Could ask the same question about going to sleep every night, I have no way of knowing if the me who wakes up is the me who went to sleep.

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

5) With the way that our solar system is situated that the nearest possible neighboring solar systems are far beyond our ability to travel to. Was this by design? Are we the intergalactic version of an Australian Penal colony?

Actually our nearest neighbour is closer than average for how far we are from the galactic core.

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

7) Why does mankind have the ability to have faith, doesn't that go against our dangerously inquisitive nature?

We're inquisitive, but we also have (or had) to make survival decisions based on very little information. "Agency detection", detecting an agent (enemy, friend, predator, prey) had a greater benefit than the cost of being wrong about the agent being there, so we all now have over-active agent detectors, attributing all kinds of things to an external agency when they're just random or natural things.