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Yes, that is the joke I was making. Thank you for explaining it.

• vimacs2 5y ago
  I think their point was your joke doesn't make much sense when only a small subsection of the entire telescope was ever replaced.
  • minitoar 5y ago
    In my opinion that's part of what makes it funny, and is also a core issue in the Ship of Theseus problem -- who's to say how much it can be changed and is still "the same thing"? Maybe the thing that was replaced was very small but was very important to the identity.
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    • xref 5y ago
      That’s not what the Ship of Theseus is. The thought experiment is: if you replace 100% of the original object then is it the same object. Not like, if you change the batteries in the remote is it the same remote.