Frank and Ernest by Thaves for December 10, 2009
December 09, 2009
December 11, 2009
Transcript:
Snowflake Design Dept. Frank says, "Making every snowflake unique is too hard---cpuldn't we just issue limited editions!"
ladywolf17 about 15 years ago
Yes but only in certain areas.
ejcapulet about 15 years ago
I did once read that it was impossible for no two snowflakes to be alike - it’s impossible for a person to find two alike.
Nighthawks Premium Member about 15 years ago
so, prove it….. i will bet that there was a snowflake that fell on a mountaintop in Nepal thirty years ago that is identical to one that fell behind applebee’s in Cedar Rapids, Iowa two years ago…or was that three years ago? since we are talking trillions upon trillions of snowflakes—doesn’t the ‘monkeys with typewriters’ thing apply here?
fredbuhl about 15 years ago
Yes, but how many monkeys does it take to make a snowman?
bmonk about 15 years ago
Since the shape of the snowflake is so sensitive (as a chaotic system) to the conditions of the atmosphere it is falling through, and since no two flakes take the same path–heck, no two arms of a given flake take precisely the same path–it is true enough that, to sufficiently close description of the shape, no two snowflakes are precisely alike.
But, some may be close enough “for all practical purposes”…
yyyguy about 15 years ago
all different or not all different won’t matter when they’re packed together into a nice round ball for flinging at someone or something!
bald about 15 years ago
well i for one wouldn’t be mad if we didn’t get any more snow flakes here this winter..