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When I was in high school, my girlfriend texted me a photo of me kissing some girl (not her) who was sitting in a swing. At first I thought "Woah who is taking
by gamegoblin 11y ago
When I was in high school, my girlfriend texted me a photo of me kissing some girl (not her) who was sitting in a swing.
At first I thought "Woah who is taking secret pictures of me?!" but then I realized I didn't recognize the girl I was kissing in the photo.
So at that point I'm really confused -- there is a photo of me kissing a girl I don't know, in a park I've never been to. Photoshop? Is this a prank?
My girlfriend then quickly follows up with "Weird right? I met this couple at the park and he looks just like you from the side. From the front he has a bit of a wider face, though. And he's Italian."
Had she not told me that, I would have completely believed that I'd been photoshopped into a photo. I couldn't spot a single dissimilarity.
I wonder if any relationships have ended because someone's significant other saw what looked like them with another person.
- robertk 11y agoPhenotype space is probably not continuous given genome structure. So it appears like you can vary features almost arbitrarily, as you see in the Oblivion video game, but in fact you see a lot of genetic collisions due to a much smaller search space combined with the birthday paradox.