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Article #6426Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...)
From: ron Ron Schwarz
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:00
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On 17 Apr 1997 02:13:00 -0700, John Gentile <bbobb@primenet.com>
wrote:
>: : Garrett Choi (gchoi@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
>: :
>: : William Poundstone talks about that Thompson Lamp thing where
>: : basically you imagine you've got this lamp which can switch on and off
>: : infinitely fast. I walk out of the room and you start. You turn it
>: : on for 1/2 a minute, off for 1/4, on for 1/8, etc. After two minutes,
>: : I come back in. Is the light on or off?
>: :
>: :
>: : Garrett
>: : gchoi@cco.caltech.edu
>: :
>
>the light is neither on nor off...it's like the dead cat thing, where
>the cat is neither alive nor dead. (dunno if you've heard of that one,
>but oh, well ;-)).
There's a whole dead cat in every bar of Dead Cat Soap.
Really dead!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102cdf,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cdf,public X-Google-Thread: ffd1b,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gidffd1b,public X-Google-Thread: f5d40,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d40,public X-Google-Thread: 10a148,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a148,public X-Google-Thread: 10f3ae,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f3ae,public X-Google-Thread: 10aec3,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10aec3,public From: ron@schwarz.nethawk@com (Ron Schwarz) Subject: Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...) Date: 1997/04/17 Message-ID: <3358a5b7.237516891@news.netonecom.net> X-Deja-AN: 235647389 References: <858944975.21700@dejanews.com> <E7pGE8.21v@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> <hatunenE7pK18.n1L@netcom.com> <5he5lg$hs8@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <5heubn$r3v@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <5hhq2q$fr1@usenet.rpi.edu> <5j4pis$3ka$1@nnrp01.primenet.com> Organization: NetOne Communications Inc. Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,alt.conspiracy,alt.folklore.science,hsv.general,alt.folklore.urban,rec.models.rockets