Comments on: 10^262 is an unwritable number

By: Deacon Blues

Deacon Blues — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:46:22 +0000

And once again, we ignore a basic axiom of probability theory:

The probability of an event which has already happened is 100%. The probability of the event before it happened is immaterial.

We are here. Therefore, the odds of sentient life arising on Earth is 100%. Debating the likelihood is rhetorical masturbation, at best.

By: 10^262 is an unwritable number!? « Science Notes

10^262 is an unwritable number!? « Science Notes — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:33:18 +0000

[...] 2007 20:58 — monado Thanks to Jared Asay at the Axis of Jared for pointing out this howler of a mistake in Christian science materials for children, as pointed out by Tiny Frog: …scientists have computed that to provide a single protein [...]

By: simple z

simple z — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:04:26 +0000

…haven’t had time to read all comments above, but i’d like to state that the creationist school in question probably got the magnitude wrong: 10^262 is probably just the exponent of the real number they are referring to.

Was this what they were trying to write down on paper: 10^(10^262) ?

which would require 10^262 zeros, which probably is greater than the sum of all particles in the universe.

By: Zhiwen

Zhiwen — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:59:22 +0000

I think he might have meant that the time in seconds this would take would be forever.

By: Martin the Amazing Hamburger Jumper

Martin the Amazing Hamburger Jumper — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:39:47 +0000

I’m sorry “query,” but there is also no factual basis for an omnipotent god, merely a traditional or mythological basis. Also, the “physical laws of science” are theories. When you use the word “theory” what you are actually referring to is called an “hypothesis.” On top of that, to respond to you question as to when the last time my house fixed itself or cleaned itself, I would say that this hasn’t happened. As far as whether or not it would fix itself you are assuming that the conventional ways in which houses are designed to function are in fact the ideal. This is flagrantly subjective as the ideal function of a house is really open for interpretation. My room has never cleaned itself either. However, I will make the point that if given time, everything in my room, including my room itself will decay and eventually disappear. If I give that dirty laundry pile in the corner just a few thousand years, it will almost definitely be clean.

Lastly, to the gentleman above who equated atheism with mass murder, what have your crusades and holy wars given humanity but a collective history most notable for warfare (mass murder). To equate atheism with the homicidal purges of madmen ignores all of the homicidal purges of religious madmen. Where are your Francos, your Ferdinands, your Torquemadas, your Martin Luthers and your Richelieus, to name a few? (Sorry for the dramatic flourish)

By: g.w.b.

g.w.b. — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:36:08 +0000

Creationists, I refuse to call them creationists, I call them christians, we are all christians in this country, and we like to teach our children christian values.

Some people say we are not different from fanatic muslims fighting in iraq and afganistan against our troops, but I disagree. Because we believe jesus and they do not believe in jesus. They believe some guy called Ahmad, or Ali, or something and teach their children that everything in their path mush be crushed if it does not accord with their beliefs….cannot go on…too dumb…not satirical enough…

But seriously, not being gwb, I would dare some smart evolutionist! (whatever that means, when did they start calling sane people fancy names.) to set up a fake creationist website, play along and get all their private info. Provided they are the retards that we think they are they will be giving them out anyway ( just tell them jesus wants it.)

The final act: come up with some fancy way to profit from it, the nastiest way possible. (only if I were the facebook guy!). I won’t do it , cause I too lazy and stupid, let this be my message in a bottle. You cannot disintrate ignorance, but you can shatter beliefs or at least harm people who have them.

They are playing hard ball by teaching children that crack induced bad trip of a fairy tale anyways, I bet we can do the same.

A.A.

By: archgoon

archgoon — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:21:26 +0000

Sara, 10^72 atoms is quite ab it actually.

Say that people were a cubic meter large, and made entirely of water, they would then be made up of about 10^30 atoms. You could then replace the universe with 10^42 people. The population of the earth is, of course, about 10^10.

Alternatively, the sun has mass of 10^30 kilograms. This is mostly hydrogen, so it has about 10^56 atoms. This leaves room for about 10^16 stars in the universe, or a million more stars than there are people on earth. The estimates for the number of stars in the universe is about 10^21, so the number is apparently off by about 5 orders of magnitude.

10^72 objects is a ton of objects. It’s writeable, but HUGE.

(numbers are due to google and massive rounding).

By: Mooser

Mooser — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:15:41 +0000

I have consistently found that a urinary system is best for scientific notation of numbers. #1 = pee, and #2 = poop.
Now, if we take “pee” and “poop” and use them as the “0″ and “1″ in the binary system, you can convert binary to urinary. Of course, the only thing to do then is piss off.

By: Ohi

Ohi — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:11:34 +0000

2^10,000,000 is even bigger

By: Administrator

Administrator — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:07:57 +0000

[ This post was created by someone claiming to be the administrator. Actually, it was just some commenter who stopped by the webpage. I have no idea why he is claiming to be me, and no, this discussion is not locked. ]

WTF are you guys arguing about again?

Because I know exctly how long it takes to make a cell if not quite a few cells…

“Relax baby, just have another drink.” A little of the ol’ IN-OUT-IN-OUT-”Oh Baby, don’t stop!” and BAM!

So the answer is not 10^262, the answer is $20 bucks in liquor, 30 minutes with her knees behind her ears and I got those cells multiplying like there aint’ no tomorrow!

This discussion is LOCKED!

–Admin