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-DeaDLocK- said:
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I'm absolutely speechless...
Very topical. I wonder how I can catch one of the flakes falling outside and have a look under our scope without the thing melting.
perhaps a chilled µscope slide. Z
jacobyte said:
Breathtaking! And every snowflake is different...
I've often wondered how people can seriously get away with saying that... How many trillions upon trillions of snowflakes exist at eny one moment in the world, let alone over the course of time? Has anyone ever checked every one? Didn't think so...
pdV6 said:
Breathtaking! And every snowflake is different...
I've often wondered how people can seriously get away with saying that... How many trillions upon trillions of snowflakes exist at eny one moment in the world, let alone over the course of time? Has anyone ever checked every one? Didn't think so...
It's probably fair to say though, that you'll never see two the same.
pdV6 said:I remember reading something about this. The basic shapes and structures are duplicated a lot (but even then there are hundreds of thousands of these), but it's in the fine detail that the uniqueness occurs. The number of tiny "branches" at the tip of a spike, for instance, can vary tremendously. Factor the number of possible variations on these small elements by the number of possible basic shapes and the number is bound to be in mega-mega-mega trillions.
I've often wondered how people can seriously get away with saying that... How many trillions upon trillions of snowflakes exist at eny one moment in the world, let alone over the course of time? Has anyone ever checked every one? Didn't think so...
I agree that it's unlikely that every single snowflake in history has been completely unique, but if everyone in the world started cataloging snowflakes for the rest of their lives many say a match will never be found.
pdV6 said:
Breathtaking! And every snowflake is different...
I've often wondered how people can seriously get away with saying that... How many trillions upon trillions of snowflakes exist at eny one moment in the world, let alone over the course of time? Has anyone ever checked every one? Didn't think so...
Silly me - of course they are all made on a production line in Coventry. Of course there will be many similar, but I challenge you to find 2 identical ones.
Meanwhile, we'll let the monkeys continue in their attempt to type the Complete Works of Shakespeare...
pdV6 said:
Breathtaking! And every snowflake is different...
I've often wondered how people can seriously get away with saying that... How many trillions upon trillions of snowflakes exist at eny one moment in the world, let alone over the course of time? Has anyone ever checked every one? Didn't think so...
I have......and it's not effected me at all, I'm quite normal really
Not do do with snowflakes, but it's been bugging me for a while...
I was up at my Dad's in Scotland a while back when we noticed something odd in his bird bath. It was filled with water and had frozen level, but toward the centre there was a near perfect cylinder of ice about an inch or so in diameter and about 6 inches long sticking up, near vertical. It was most phallic
Neither of us had seen anything like it before. There was nothing above or around it that could have dripped on it stalagtite style and it was almost perfectly cylindrical, not tapered at all. I could come up with no explaination for it except possibly the water freezing from the outside in and the bottom up coupled with the water expanding as it froze 'puching' up the water in the centre.
Anyone seen this before?
I was up at my Dad's in Scotland a while back when we noticed something odd in his bird bath. It was filled with water and had frozen level, but toward the centre there was a near perfect cylinder of ice about an inch or so in diameter and about 6 inches long sticking up, near vertical. It was most phallic
Neither of us had seen anything like it before. There was nothing above or around it that could have dripped on it stalagtite style and it was almost perfectly cylindrical, not tapered at all. I could come up with no explaination for it except possibly the water freezing from the outside in and the bottom up coupled with the water expanding as it froze 'puching' up the water in the centre.
Anyone seen this before?
pdV6 said:
Breathtaking! And every snowflake is different...
I've often wondered how people can seriously get away with saying that... How many trillions upon trillions of snowflakes exist at eny one moment in the world, let alone over the course of time? Has anyone ever checked every one? Didn't think so...
How do we know that everyones finger prints and corneas are different?
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