Some things never cease to amaze me

[Java]

I am at a loss to explain why this video has got over 2 million views and counting thus far?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kib05Ip6GSo

Its just an young woman staring into the video camera for about 30 seconds. Go figure.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

Uhm... no clue.

[tiger_rascal]

:eek:

[pinky]

Just a guess here, but maybe because people keep posting it on message boards and blogs and wondering why it has so many views????

:tongue:

[summerlight00]

Maybe you are right.

[Java]

We're lucky to get maybe 10 visitors a day in here and most just look at the latest posts that just happen to be updated within maybe the past week or so? ...Oh, and a few occasional google hits here and there, but over two million hits for that video?

Let me think about this for a moment.

Let's see, if 10 people tell 10 of their friends about something they find amusing, we have a grand total of 110 people who would now know of this amusing video. Let's say these 110 folks tell 10 of their friends each (assuming no overlapping of friends), we would have arrived at 1100 additional folks plus the original 110 folks before them and this would add up to 1210 folks total. Now if these 1210 folks told 10 of their friends (again assuming there are no overlapping of friends) the new total would be 12100 folks plus the now original 1210 folks behind them and bringing the newly updated grand total figure up to 13310 folks. Now add another 10 and so forth... yeah, I can see how something like this could add up quickly over time.

But! There is this thing called the six degrees of separation which in time will not only level out this exponential growth but will also place a cap upon it too.

Seems I've found a spot where philosophy and statistical analysis combine... it's kind of like the Schrödinger Cat Experiment in some ways.

Now for the sake of probabilities, even a very remote chance per se, let's say the cat in Dr. Schrödinger's hermetically sealed box discovers the resonance frequency of the box while pouncing about the inside of this said box, and the cat becomes amused and entertained by this. After quickly discovering what frequency of pounces to take in order to achieve the best desired results, the cat continues to be amused and entertained as the resonance of the box itself is increased with each passing pounce. Soon the whole hermetically sealed box belonging to Dr. Schrödinger would be vibrating quite noticeably, and thus the observer would not have any need to open the box to determine the state of the cat...

...unless of course the vibrations cause this certain vial of prussic acid to break...

...and the vibrations begin to forever weaken into silent oblivion as the observer may now also be able to determine the history of the cat in ...SpaceTime...

Now going beyond and including a probability as close to singularity as one can possibly get against all odds, let's say that this particular portion of SpaceTime (the observer(s), box, cat, (history? - another topic for future ponderings!), and all) just happens to fall through the event horizon of a black hole from which no form of information can possibly escape...

Is it possible for history to escape the confines of a black hole simply because it pre-existed? What does this imply about predestination?

I never expected a random topic like this could ever suddenly get so deep! :blueeek: