Is it really true that no two ********** are alike?

ChroniC said:
Ok, they never will be the same, but is no one curious why they all exhibit the same principles, the simplest being that they all have six (prongs/legs/angles/arms) whatever you want to call them.

I find it stranger that they are conforming to that, than being random.
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From the second link. :)

"These crystals [are] usually six-sided because of the way hydrogen atoms bond with oxygen to create water"
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PGdude said:
And remember that there is an exact copy of our Earth, out there, with exact copies of us doing what we do, somewhere out there.
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Possibly. Unlikely, though. The universe is very large, but not infinite in size (it is less than 14000 cubic light-years), and the number of variables to be reproduced are massive.

Assuming that conditions allowing precipitation continue to exist somewhere in the universe for a sufficient length of time, it is a certainty that that a ********* will be created which is not unique.

I am simply saying that the probability that this has already happened, between 2 ********** on Earth, is unknown - furthermore, that it is not a value the human mind could accurately estimate.
 
wilko49 said:
Possibly. Unlikely, though. The universe is very large, but not infinite in size (it is less than 14000 cubic light-years), and the number of variables to be reproduced are massive.

Assuming that conditions allowing precipitation continue to exist somewhere in the universe for a sufficient length of time, it is a certainty that that a ********* will be created which is not unique.

I am simply saying that the probability that this has already happened, between 2 ********** on Earth, is unknown - furthermore, that it is not a value the human mind could accurately estimate.
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Yeah true, something similar that I find weirder (in my head mind you) is that there are 6bl people on earth, let say half are men. Thats leaves 3bl people (give or take kids and old people obviously) there must in that amount of variables be someone with the exact same face as you, not just similar but exactly the same.
 
I'm sure there would be some that are the same, but no-one will ever find 2 identical snow flakes, so to us it'll always be something with a "practically 0 chance". There's so many people in the world there is bound to be someone who looks practically identical to you as well, but the chance you ever meet or see them is practically 0 too, so it's on the same basis, there is no way you can prove that you have an identical looking person somewhere in the world, but by the laws of probability there will be 1 somewhere from the amount of people on the planet.
 
ChroniC said:
Ok, they never will be the same, but is no one curious why they all exhibit the same principles, the simplest being that they all have six (prongs/legs/angles/arms) whatever you want to call them.

I find it stranger that they are conforming to that, than being random.
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They are not all similar, there was a prog on iplayer recently about avalanche. The star shaped ones lock together quite well to form stable snow. But depending on conditions, you can get some really funky shaped ones, including ones that look like smooth crystals, which can cause a collapse as they don't lock together very well.
 
ChroniC said:
Yeah true, something similar that I find weirder (in my head mind you) is that there are 6bl people on earth, let say half are men. Thats leaves 3bl people (give or take kids and old people obviously) there must in that amount of variables be someone with the exact same face as you, not just similar but exactly the same.
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There's a lot more permutations than 6billion to the human genome.
 
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