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  • Wag1one
    Wag1one Posts: 46
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    Life.
    What is it?
    How do you know?
    How do you live?
    I have no idea.
    Clueless.
    And solipsistic at its best.

    Your purpose is to produce offspring with the best genetic mate possible and to find the end of the rainbow.
    (A wizard told me while I was drunk.)

    You look to be a pretty suitable candidate.

    I concur. One mystery solved ;-)

    Now lets find the end of the rainbow. I mean we gotta believe the wizard lol
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
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    Life.
    What is it?
    How do you know?
    How do you live?
    I have no idea.
    Clueless.
    And solipsistic at its best.

    Your purpose is to produce offspring with the best genetic mate possible and to find the end of the rainbow.
    (A wizard told me while I was drunk.)


    Oh man - you sure have confused me even more now!

    I was doing fine when I only had to figure out the whole business about "life" - now I have the added worry to find the best genetic mate possible - do you know how hard that is?!!!!!!

    And I mean rainbow? Find the end of the rainbow? Does it even exist? How am I ever gonna find the end of the rainbow?
    Nah, I don't believe ya.
    I don't believe a rainbow even exist.

    Clearly, the phenomenon is real, as a rainbow can be observed by multiple people, can be photographed, the physics of how a rainbow is "formed" are well understood, etc.

    However, when looking at a rainbow, changing your position changes the position of the rainbow, so even if you are standing right next to me you will not be seeing exactly the same rainbow as I am observing. When seen from a moving vehicle, the rainbow appears to move with you.

    So is a rainbow an observer-dependent reality or does it exist independently of observation?


    I am so confused now :-) and I hate being confused when I ain't even drunk :-(

    Yes you can get to the end of "a" rainbow. If you understand how rainbows work and have the equipment to measure and mark.

    How would you know you have reached the "end" - isn't a rainbow a whole circle? and we only see the arc on the sky as the horizon blocks the rest? Nah I don't believe ya ;-)

    See, you are thinking of the "end" as a cross section of the circle. You need to think of "a" rainbow as perceived by an observer and they can guide you to the end of that rainbow which is not "the" rainbow for you but it is "the" rainbow for the observer. So you can reach the "end" of "a" rainbow just not "the" rainbow.

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