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Asterix & Obelix:"The sky is falling on our heads" Discworld:"The bottom most turtle died" PlanetEarth:"HN is down" These all seem like the same thing, it ju

Asterix & Obelix:"The sky is falling on our heads" Discworld:"The bottom most turtle died" PlanetEarth:"HN is down" These all seem like the same thing, it just depends where you are in the erm "multiverse" !

tsimionescu 4y ago
> Discworld:"The bottom most turtle died" This absurd inaccuracy cannot stand. There is a single turtle holding up the disk, Great A'Tuin. Now, if you were to claim the bottom-most elephant had died, we could talk!
- rawoke083600 4y ago
  But but didn't the lady said it's "Turtles all the way down ?" See cosmology is tricky no matter where you are :D PS. According to historic records (DISCWORLD 1-41) you are right :P
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    If we (foolishly) ignore the one true source and read the wiki: Stephen Hawking incorporates the saying into the beginning of his 1988 book A Brief History of Time:[20] A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
    - rawoke083600 4y ago
      This is what the internet was supposed to be ! Correcting the others on how many turtles is holding up everything :D :D Dammit I missed Terry Pratchett :( - The man had a wicked crazy mind and flair to focus it to produce the most amazing stories, scenarios and humour. Like having a "Thieves Guild" - "If you going to have crime you might as well have organised crime" For those that don't know, in this scenario. The Thieves guild" got a 'budget' of how much they can steal per year (?) and if you got robbed the thief would give you a receipt. Oh and any 'unlicensed thieving' was dealt with and 'policed' by the guild itself :)
      - lostlogin 4y ago
        Was Pratchett making a dig at taxation? The thieves guild sounds rather like government taxation.
        rawoke083600 4y ago
        Lol maybe !
  - Trouble_007 4y ago
    >"Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress. < : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
    - rawoke083600 4y ago
      I would love to see that phrase used in some serious math proof or paper :)

tsimionescu 4y ago

> Discworld:"The bottom most turtle died" This absurd inaccuracy cannot stand. There is a single turtle holding up the disk, Great A'Tuin. Now, if you were to claim the bottom-most elephant had died, we could talk!

rawoke083600 4y ago
But but didn't the lady said it's "Turtles all the way down ?" See cosmology is tricky no matter where you are :D PS. According to historic records (DISCWORLD 1-41) you are right :P
- lostlogin 4y ago
  If we (foolishly) ignore the one true source and read the wiki: Stephen Hawking incorporates the saying into the beginning of his 1988 book A Brief History of Time:[20] A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
  - rawoke083600 4y ago
    This is what the internet was supposed to be ! Correcting the others on how many turtles is holding up everything :D :D Dammit I missed Terry Pratchett :( - The man had a wicked crazy mind and flair to focus it to produce the most amazing stories, scenarios and humour. Like having a "Thieves Guild" - "If you going to have crime you might as well have organised crime" For those that don't know, in this scenario. The Thieves guild" got a 'budget' of how much they can steal per year (?) and if you got robbed the thief would give you a receipt. Oh and any 'unlicensed thieving' was dealt with and 'policed' by the guild itself :)
    - lostlogin 4y ago
      Was Pratchett making a dig at taxation? The thieves guild sounds rather like government taxation.
      - rawoke083600 4y ago
        Lol maybe !
- Trouble_007 4y ago
  >"Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress. < : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
  - rawoke083600 4y ago
    I would love to see that phrase used in some serious math proof or paper :)