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# and in the same vein, did you know that motion is in fact impossible.
to get from point A to point B, you first have to reach a point that is half way between, but before you get there, you have to reach the point that is halfway between point A and that point, etc.

Therefore you can't actually ever achieve motion
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 8 May 2009, 16:14, archived)
# this gives me an ample excuse not to turn in to work
on monday thanks! and its SCIENCE!!11!!
(I helped save b3ta! op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Fri 8 May 2009, 16:16, archived)
# you might need a letter from your local physicist though
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 8 May 2009, 16:21, archived)
# This implies a minimum unit of space, to resolve the problem
but that raises further problems, because the length of the diagonal of a square is an irrational number, and squares can exist, and therefore there can't be any units of space.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 8 May 2009, 16:34, archived)
# it's tricky isn't it
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 8 May 2009, 16:43, archived)
# Could try to make do with a minimum unit of time instead
but then Peter Lynds would pick a fight with you.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 8 May 2009, 16:47, archived)
# hmm
Therefore you can't actually ever achieve motion assuming time is passing in a series of infinitely-halving time periods.

Or something.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 8 May 2009, 17:59, archived)