In the future we'll be able to go up to 3 seconds back in time so we can live our entire life as if it were a techno song.
In the future we'll be able to go forward 3 seconds in time so that we'll can live for 3 seconds longer.
In the future we'll increase the speed of our life spans to 3 seconds so that we can evolve more quickly into plasma computer gods.
In the future we'll be able to stop time, effectively rendering the future and this blog irrelevant and moot.
In the future we'll be able to escape from penitentiaries by absorbing and subsequently shooting lightning out of our appendages all the while making denim look hilarious (Ok I stole that one from Ernest Goes To Jail).
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how will the future account for time if you repeated the last three seconds and i chose not to?
I should go into the idea of infinite in my next post. In short it is akin to a snake eating itself. Is anyone actually reading this crap? Jessica is going to do a guest post on the future tense of words across cultures.
Nate is reading this, and it is crap, hehe.
Would we percieve anything differently if our lifespans were somehow accelerated?
This makes me think of the observation that all mammals have roughly the same number of heartbeats over their lifetime - little, short-lived things have really fast heartbeats, and people, whales, and elephants have really slow heartbeats. I think the number is something like 1 billion beats. This is probably just a manifestation of metabolic rates in general, but still cool.
if a snake eats itself it will eventually get to the head, no? that is not akin to infinity, which is a snake biting its tail and rolling around like a hoop for the rest of time. also, which nathan is he who comments?
I think I've determined that it is he of Penny.
Also I've been trying to figure out in my head what would happen if a snake began to eat itself. It would coil up inside itself and eventually eat its tail multiple times depending on how long it is. This took a while to get right in my head though.
i still can't picture it. can you create a flash animation or something to portray such an event?
It's Nate Pinney (me).
What is the deal with this auto-cannibalistic snake?
I think Jacob has the right idea, geometrically speaking. The end of the tail, if swallowed continuously, will eventually rest inside the end of the tail. It's much like those conical paper cups that sno-cones are served in (I think you know what I'm talking about Carrie), except that both the inside and outside cones are the same cone.
I think you guys should find some old predictions of the future (Popular Science a la 1926) to see what wild predictions your forebears made.
I thought about the snake a little more. It could only happen for a snake of zero thickness.
so it's like you can't fold a piece of paper more than eight times? that's why the snake has to be of zero thickness. i think i get it.
Ha! So my original analogy was accurate.
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