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It's a good metric to determine how advanced a civilization it. Would be cool to just compare pis with the aliens, and then whoever has the longest pi takes ove
by louloulou 4y ago
It's a good metric to determine how advanced a civilization it. Would be cool to just compare pis with the aliens, and then whoever has the longest pi takes over, rather than fighting to extinction.
- metadat 4y agoIs this some kind of a pi-nus measuring contest joke? Yeah, yeah, go ahead and downvote this one to death. I know we don't like jokes 'round these parts, especially low-effort immature ones. :~(
- s0teri0s 4y agoMy inner 12 year old laffed.
- myle 4y agoWell done for a 10 year old!
- dotancohen 4y agoThat was neither low-effort nor immature. The elusive high quality, mature penis joke is well appreciated.
- secondcoming 4y agoThe joke was great. The disclaimer at the end ruins it.
- metadat 4y agoWell, it's just the way HN PTSD plays out.
- secondcoming 4y agoDon’t worry about your internet points
- metadat 4y agoI don't, and totally agree; they're absolutely worthless. I do however get annoyed when decent comments get murdered and become invisible to most of the population.
- karolist 4y agoThe joke was good, but your fear of downvotes and attempt to prevent them by adding the disclaimer is :|
- metadat 4y agoThis is why we can't have nice things (because of me). Sorry!
- belter 4y agoYour fear is irrational...
- MonkeyClub 4y agoHN pinoia aside, it was a pretty good one. However I doubt that a civilization that has survived long enough to invent some (local) sort successful space travel would budge. There are two extremes that would bring balance: mutually assured destruction (but the power comparison must allow for a delicate balance of terror to be believable on both sides); or a mutually beneficial alliance (which can work with a well-meaning advanced civ encountering a less progressed one - the “there there’re, little one” case). That being said, I’m not convinced that searching for universal others isn’t a dead end. But even if it is, it sure can stretch our understanding a bit. E.g. look at the Kardashev scale, with which we can sort of stretch imagination and think of Dysom spheres instead of solar panels. I mean, even if we don’t find aliens, with a roadmap like Kardashev’s it won’t be (too) long before we become the aliens many of us hope for/aspire to.
- DonHopkins 4y agoIt's not how long your pi is, it's the circumference that counts.
- euroderf 4y ago... and the emcee asks for the fifty zillionth hex digit, but only Team HOOMINZ has the formula for an arbitrary hex digit in isolation of pi !