Random Fact!

Smit said:
The Spiral stairs at one of the London Underground stations (can't remember which but can remember there are 175 steps) goes anticlockwise from the bottom to top
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The tube station you are thinking of is Lambeth North. See here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/84681882@N00/888901359

I can confirm that this is lambeth norths staircase, as I went down it for 18 months while working at the COI building just over the road.

it goes down clockwise, and as such, goes up anticlockwise.

Fact - John O Groats is not the most northernly point in the Uk mainland; it's Dunnet Head.

John O Groats is also not the most northerly town/population centre either; that's Thurso. John O Groats is basically just a collection of small cafes, tourist shops and a small port; no-one actually lives there.

[I lived up there all my life before coming down here ;) ]
 
guyfawkes5 said:
Basically my point here is that no event is technically impossible on an infinite timescale, just at best extremely, extremely, extremely unlikely. Your equation works fine in the confines of a maths class chalkboard, just not really outside it.
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What is the probability for you that you don't and never will exist in some kind of form?
 
guyfawkes5 said:
I think maybe you switched the names mistakenly if you were going for the 'probability of 0' as opposed to the 'probability of 1' example.

Even if the names were switched however, and you were assuming the probability of Bob being older than John is 0 as John was born one year before Bob, or otherwise completely impossible, you'd be technically incorrect. Hypothetically John could enter a vessel that travels faster than the speed of light and begin orbiting the Earth for an untold amount of years, during this journey actually aging at a slower rate than Bob does because of time slowing down at that speed, and finally emerging on the Earth's surface after a large passage of time has passed, only to find that Bob is now in fact 'older' than him.

Now the odds of John wishing to do this, finding the technology to build a light-speed space craft, and indeed suceeding in his travel and are remote beyond words. But not impossible.

Basically my point here is that no event is technically impossible on an infinite timescale, just at best extremely, extremely, extremely unlikely. Your equation works fine in the confines of a maths class chalkboard, just not really outside it.
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This is utter rubbish. Quite literally, the notion of "probability" incorporates certain mathematical facts, such as if A and B are events to which we can assign a probability, then so is the event C, defined as the event "A and B both happen".

All these words, "probability", "event", "possible" are defined exactly and precisely. As I mentioned in another post, you're welcome to check the definition of a "probability space", and hence "probability" and see for yourself. A direct consequence of these definitions is that one can have zero probabilities.
Robbie G said:
HA! I take back my bogus confession about talking tripe!
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Words fail me!
 
(found this out today!)

Lesbians sync their periods, so similar to a male + female combination where only once a month the painters are in, Lesbians sync theirs so it's once a month and not twice!! :eek:
 
~J~ said:
(found this out today!)

Lesbians sync their periods, so similar to a male + female combination where only once a month the painters are in, Lesbians sync theirs so it's once a month and not twice!! :eek:
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This is not exclusive to lesbians, women of every sexual persuasion in close proximity do this.
 
If my beloved OH farts as much tonight as he did last night, the probability of him ever getting it again is definately zero.
 
DampCat said:
Random Facts please!


##Spiral Staircases in the UK always spiral upwards to the right (clockwise).

Originates from the days of defending castles from an attack. Attackers would be forced to use their left hand for their sword when ascending the stairs, whilst defenders would have full use of their right hand to swing downwards with.

Possibly true with all countries, however i'm not qualified to suggest it as a fact.
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Thread fails..

EX girlfriends peasant council house has a spiral staircase going up ANTI clockwise
 
Tattoo ink should only penetrate 3 layers of skin, if not it will disperse from the heat under the 3rd layer of skin, causing a blow out.
 
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