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At 10/17/09 01:51 PM, BlackSapphire wrote: Messed up previous post.

Try jumping naked in boiling lava and come out unharmed.
Invent a gel that is incredibly heat resistant, then apply it to your body.

Tell me when you've done that.

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At 10/17/09 01:33 PM, Falonefal wrote: Try jumping naked in boiling lava and come out unharmed.

It is possible. If you begin to think of things on a sub-atomic level, there is always the possibiltiy of things not doing what is neccessarily expected of them. In this case, every atom in your body not reacting to heat when it should. The probability of this happening, of course, is very very low (I'm talking 0.1x10^-99999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999 percent, for one atom), but low probability, no matter how low, as long as it isn't 0, is possibility.

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At 10/17/09 09:18 AM, ColdRicePudding wrote:
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"What is the colour of a mirror?"

If you think about it, the mirror could be considerated black, since it reflect all the light spectrum. At the base, the color of an object is in fact the opposed color it really is, let me explain:

The object X is receiving an Y amount of light. The object absorb some of the light ( but if the object is white is because he as absorbed all the light spectrum, as black is that all the spectrum is reflected) and the rest of it is reflected, which appear to us as the color of the said object. So a mirror be considerated black. Or we could say that the mirror is 100% reflective of light spectrum due to is clear surface.

So there 2 answer: Or the mirror is theoriticaly black thus reflection the entire light spectrum, or due to is clear surface it reflect 100% of the light spectrum, having no real collor at all.

P.S: The green color you see on the side of the mirror is a, if I remember well, chimical product that fix the reflective powder ( I think its silver powder) to the other componnent.

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Anything is possible is an opinion, you can't prove it's true :) You just cannot :)

If you say: "I can since everything is possible" you fail again, since to say that, you first have to prove that everything is possible.

See where I'm going?

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At 10/17/09 02:50 PM, Falonefal wrote: Anything is possible is an opinion, you can't prove it's true :) You just cannot :)

If you say: "I can since everything is possible" you fail again, since to say that, you first have to prove that everything is possible.

See where I'm going?

Scientific theory states that everything is possible.

Read my post.

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At 10/17/09 02:50 PM, Falonefal wrote: See where I'm going?

School boy logic.

Won't get anywhere with that.

Just because something hasn't happened doesn't mean it is impossible.

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At 10/17/09 02:54 PM, Corky-D wrote:
At 10/17/09 02:50 PM, Falonefal wrote: See where I'm going?
School boy logic.

Won't get anywhere with that.

Just because something hasn't happened doesn't mean it is impossible.

But just because someone said everything is possible doesn't mean it is true right?

I think I am kind of confused, but I really like this conversation :)

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Okay, I got one:

Can an unanswerable question be answered?

Apparently so

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At 10/17/09 03:21 PM, Falonefal wrote:
At 10/17/09 02:54 PM, Corky-D wrote:
At 10/17/09 02:50 PM, Falonefal wrote: See where I'm going?
School boy logic.

Won't get anywhere with that.

Just because something hasn't happened doesn't mean it is impossible.
But just because someone said everything is possible doesn't mean it is true right?

And no one ever said it's not possible. If you noticed, this is one of those things that go on in a circle.

I think I am kind of confused, but I really like this conversation :)

Nothing to be confused about, if something is neither true or false it really doesn't matter until either happens. Which means that both CAN be true.

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At 10/17/09 03:24 PM, MonkeyV wrote: Okay, I got one:

Can an unanswerable question be answered?
Apparently so

Anything can be answered, but can it be answered correctly?

As for the Anything is Possible thing, I think I got it.

Anything is possible, but not necessarily flawlessly executable?

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At 10/17/09 03:27 PM, Falonefal wrote:
At 10/17/09 03:24 PM, MonkeyV wrote: Okay, I got one:

Can an unanswerable question be answered?
Apparently so
Anything can be answered, but can it be answered correctly?

As for the Anything is Possible thing, I think I got it.

Anything is possible, but not necessarily flawlessly executable?

Nevermind, I just don't think everything is possible, anything is possible in your mind of course, but try doing it for a change...
Really, you can't say that anything is possible until you really tested that anything is possible.

I think you people are being too dogmatic.
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At 10/17/09 03:27 PM, Falonefal wrote:
At 10/17/09 03:24 PM, MonkeyV wrote: Okay, I got one:

Can an unanswerable question be answered?
Apparently so
Anything can be answered, but can it be answered correctly?

Actually, I was just mocking this thread.

As for the Anything is Possible thing, I think I got it.

Anything is possible, but not necessarily flawlessly executable?

My personal belief on the subject:
As far as humans know (and that is the most reassurance we can have), anything is possible, but nothing is provable.

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At 10/17/09 03:42 PM, MonkeyV wrote:
At 10/17/09 03:27 PM, Falonefal wrote:
At 10/17/09 03:24 PM, MonkeyV wrote: Okay, I got one:

Can an unanswerable question be answered?
Apparently so
Anything can be answered, but can it be answered correctly?
Actually, I was just mocking this thread.

As for the Anything is Possible thing, I think I got it.

Anything is possible, but not necessarily flawlessly executable?
My personal belief on the subject:
As far as humans know (and that is the most reassurance we can have), anything is possible, but nothing is provable.

Or even an improvement to your belief that immediately came up in me:

Anything ispossible, but not everything of it is provable.

However, according to Socrates you cannot know anything fully:

"I know that I know nothing"

He means that you can know something in general, but not in essence, if you keep asking on and on and on the interrogated person will find that he cannot actually fully explain it.

But If we'll speak in general terms...

The best thing to do would be to say: "Anything could be possible"

Which is something quite different ;)

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At 10/17/09 03:50 PM, Falonefal wrote: The best thing to do would be to say: "Anything could be possible"

Okay, how about:

Anything that is logically possible can be physically possible, but nothing can be proven to exist and no even can be proven to have happened.

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At 10/17/09 04:03 PM, MonkeyV wrote:
At 10/17/09 03:50 PM, Falonefal wrote: The best thing to do would be to say: "Anything could be possible"
Okay, how about:

Anything that is logically possible can be physically possible, but nothing can be proven to exist and no even can be proven to have happened.

Ah now that is something I can agree with, when you put in "logically possible" it's okay with me :)

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