Comments on: Late At Night http://www.abodes.org/blog/archives/587 Your #1 source for politically correct and totally inoffensive kittens, ninjas and boobies Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:40:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: sloth http://www.abodes.org/blog/archives/587#comment-862 sloth Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:07:52 +0000 http://www.abodes.org/blog/archives/587#comment-862 And as a trained statistician I would have to say that while it might be theoretically possible to throw a ball through a solid wall (without blasting a whole in the wall like a cannonball might) it's not practically possible. That's a very very very long way down the long tail of the distribution of possible outcomes of throwing a theoretically standard ball at a theoretically standard wall. We should set that experiment up. Maybe get some grant funding. I would also like to see what happens when an unstoppable force meets head on with an immovable object. I think this can happen in any reality where people hit each other with magically enchanted weapons. I like to believe that this reality exists somewhere. I might like to visit it. As long as I have some pretty cool magical items or powerful magical friends that is. I wouldn't really want to be a peon in that sort of place. And as a trained statistician I would have to say that while it might be theoretically possible to throw a ball through a solid wall (without blasting a whole in the wall like a cannonball might) it’s not practically possible. That’s a very very very long way down the long tail of the distribution of possible outcomes of throwing a theoretically standard ball at a theoretically standard wall.

We should set that experiment up. Maybe get some grant funding.

I would also like to see what happens when an unstoppable force meets head on with an immovable object. I think this can happen in any reality where people hit each other with magically enchanted weapons. I like to believe that this reality exists somewhere.

I might like to visit it. As long as I have some pretty cool magical items or powerful magical friends that is.

I wouldn’t really want to be a peon in that sort of place.

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