Over in Snowflakes, some of the orphan kids got into trouble with the nuns running the orphanage. They were caught taking belly button lint and sewing it into clothes. Their sin was making a habit of it.
If it is unlikely “that any two complex snow crystals … have ever looked completely alike”, then think how even more unlikely it would be if matching snowflakes were found in two different places in the universe, at the same time, on two separate planets whose evolutionary circumstances were precisely parallel! This is story of odds -. odds, and those who would bet them - not verisimilitude.. (Though, for verisimilitude’s sake, I’m sure two distinct matching snowflake pairs were found, and no implication was made by the story that four alike snowflakes could possibly simultaneously exist.)
Ida No over 8 years ago
I’d make a bet about no two comic strips being the same, but I’m not a sporting type.
Ida No over 8 years ago
Over in Snowflakes, some of the orphan kids got into trouble with the nuns running the orphanage. They were caught taking belly button lint and sewing it into clothes. Their sin was making a habit of it.
NWdryad over 8 years ago
@TSOJ: c’mon, you can do better than that!
William Glass Premium Member over 8 years ago
@NightGaunt
If it is unlikely “that any two complex snow crystals … have ever looked completely alike”, then think how even more unlikely it would be if matching snowflakes were found in two different places in the universe, at the same time, on two separate planets whose evolutionary circumstances were precisely parallel! This is story of odds -. odds, and those who would bet them - not verisimilitude.. (Though, for verisimilitude’s sake, I’m sure two distinct matching snowflake pairs were found, and no implication was made by the story that four alike snowflakes could possibly simultaneously exist.)