The Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard

[somersetsaxon]

In a video game store I saw a lady pick up a box for the Scarface PS2 game. Her son asked her who the man on the front was (a stupid question in itself), she replied "It's Al Pacino." (flips box to read the back) "No it's not, it's some guy called Tony Montana.... that's odd, he really looks like Al Pacino."

 

[Ekonk]

I once heard someone try to explain to our maths teacher that you can in fact divide by 0, using dividing pizza to further explain his theory. It was so stupid I can't even remember the specifics.

You can divide by zero; the result is infinity.

Basic math fail. Our entire mathematical system is built upon/based upon the zero, and you can't divide by it. If you could, the whole system would never have worked/existed in the first place and we would probably live in a very odd universe.

EDIT: I qualify Milkoy's post for this thread!

Mate, that is just not true. Think of it in a mathematical way; an asymptotal curve hits the y axis at infinity, because its equation is y=1/x, so when x is 0, y is equal to infinity.

http://www.revisioncentre.co.uk/gcse/maths/1overx.gif

Thats a picture showing what I mean.

I seem to remember quite vividly that the whole point of 'asymptotic' (spelling?) was that it would get closer and closer to the axis, but never actually hit it.

Of course, dealing with infinity is a bit hard since it's a very abstract thing.

 

[laggyteabag]

Two things -
"Watch out theres a invisible guy running round"
"I cant see him"
"Thats 'cus hes invisible..." =] - Two friends of mine

"You'll eat chips but you wont eat beans..." - My mum

 

[milkoy]

I seem to remember quite vividly that the whole point of 'asymptotic' (spelling?) was that it would get closer and closer to the axis, but never actually hit it.

Of course, dealing with infinity is a bit hard since it's a very abstract thing.

Yes; it hits it at infinity. When you divide 1 by zero. Q.E.D

And also, your point about how "we would probably live in a very odd universe" also hardly has any merit. For example, if you take a black hole, it, at its singularity, scientifically, has an volume of zero, as, with current measurements, the result will always be zero, nothing you can do about it. This means that it has an infinite density, from p=m/v, hence its massive gravity.

Dividing by zero is something that must be taken into account in physics, the laws break down when zeros and infinities are introduced.

EDIT:

Also, I think it was a bit of a fucking dick move to go and call what I said "The Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard", when you have got no actual evidence to prove me wrong, and then, when I go and show I am right, you go and brush it off.

 

[micky]

i know a kid who thought George bush was one of the founding fathers.

 

[laggyteabag]

Another thing -
"...Korean" - Me
"What's a Korean?" - Retard
"Are you honestly asking me that" - Me
"No, of cause I know what a Korean is" - Retard
"What is it then" - Me
"I cant be bothered to say" - Retard
"A Korean is some one from Korea..." - Me
"Oh, like the Japanese are from China?" - Retard
*Facepalm - Me

 

[Hashime]

"Hey guys, what is YOUR password?"

Well it is 12rt45... WAIT A MINUTE!

It would go with: "What is electricity again?" coming from a grade 11 physics student that I am tutoring.

 

[Ednoshoes]

My friend believed that our blood pumps round our body at twice the speed of light!! I tried to explain to him that its impossible and that we would all be a mass of pure energy..he didnt belive me...LMAO

 

[Flamezdudes]

"I don't beleive in all that science stuff, it's all lies."

I replied by asking why she beleived in a book with no evidence and she did not reply. IT'S SO FRUSTRATING.

 

[Ekonk]

I seem to remember quite vividly that the whole point of 'asymptotic' (spelling?) was that it would get closer and closer to the axis, but never actually hit it.

Of course, dealing with infinity is a bit hard since it's a very abstract thing.

Yes; it hits it at infinity. When you divide 1 by zero. Q.E.D

And also, your point about how "we would probably live in a very odd universe" also hardly has any merit. For example, if you take a black hole, it, at its singularity, scientifically, has an volume of zero, as, with current measurements, the result will always be zero, nothing you can do about it. This means that it has an infinite density, from p=m/v, hence its massive gravity.

Dividing by zero is something that must be taken into account in physics, the laws break down when zeros and infinities are introduced.

EDIT:

Also, I think it was a bit of a fucking dick move to go and call what I said "The Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard", when you have got no actual evidence to prove me wrong, and then, when I go and show I am right, you go and brush it off.

Hey man, I was always taught it was impossible to divide by zero. Also, you use circular logic. You're saying that 1/0 = infinity. You defend this by saying that an asymptotic line hits at infinity, and you back this up by saying 1/0 = infinity. Am I missing something here?

Then there's of course the fatal flaw that if 1/0 = infinity, then 0 * infinity = 1. However, it isn't. 0 times anything is 0.

Aaaand of course the fact that an asymptotic line gets closer and closer and doesn't hit, not even at infinity. It gets infinitely close, but it isn't zero.

 

[Kiyeri]

"You know, you should go green and try walking to school instead of driving since every time you press down the gas pedal one thousand people die."

She then called me a murderer for telling her she completely made that up. Our debate continued for at least 15 minutes longer with her also saying that everyone should go back to horse drawn carts...

 

[Julianking93]

Anything having to do with religion.

Seriously, people, what the hell?

 

[IxionIndustries]

If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

Hmmm... What's that supposed to mean? Let's figure this shit out..

*Nosebleed*

In all seriousness though:

Spoiler: HOW DO THEY WORK!?

 

[tjcross]

I once heard someone try to explain to our maths teacher that you can in fact divide by 0, using dividing pizza to further explain his theory. It was so stupid I can't even remember the specifics.

You can divide by zero; the result is infinity.

damn ninjad

 

[milkoy]

I seem to remember quite vividly that the whole point of 'asymptotic' (spelling?) was that it would get closer and closer to the axis, but never actually hit it.

Of course, dealing with infinity is a bit hard since it's a very abstract thing.

Yes; it hits it at infinity. When you divide 1 by zero. Q.E.D

And also, your point about how "we would probably live in a very odd universe" also hardly has any merit. For example, if you take a black hole, it, at its singularity, scientifically, has an volume of zero, as, with current measurements, the result will always be zero, nothing you can do about it. This means that it has an infinite density, from p=m/v, hence its massive gravity.

Dividing by zero is something that must be taken into account in physics, the laws break down when zeros and infinities are introduced.

EDIT:

Also, I think it was a bit of a fucking dick move to go and call what I said "The Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard", when you have got no actual evidence to prove me wrong, and then, when I go and show I am right, you go and brush it off.

Hey man, I was always taught it was impossible to divide by zero. Also, you use circular logic. You're saying that 1/0 = infinity. You defend this by saying that an asymptotic line hits at infinity, and you back this up by saying 1/0 = infinity. Am I missing something here?

Then there's of course the fatal flaw that if 1/0 = infinity, then 0 * infinity = 1. However, it isn't. 0 times anything is 0.

Aaaand of course the fact that an asymptotic line gets closer and closer and doesn't hit, not even at infinity. It gets infinitely close, but it isn't zero.

Okay, I'll give you another example, for a simple y=mx + c straight line graph, a flat, horizontal line, has a gradient of zero. Simple maths. Likewise, a vertical line has a gradient of infinity. This means that if you multiply both graphs together, you must get a y=x graph, which you do, as, you said it yourself "0 * infinity = 1". So, yes, what you said about that is correct, backing up my point.

 

[Chaos Marine]

d(-_-)b

How did you make that backward's b?

 

[shadyh8er]

My brother and I were playing Left 4 Dead for the first time. My bro saw "Bill killed Hunter" appear on the screen, and he asked "Who's Hunter?"

 

[Mr. Gency]

"Final Fanatasy XIII has so much exploration. I was like , 'I don't even know where to go. I'm gonna get lost' XD" - Some Gamefaqs forum poster, on a Star Ocean forum.

According to what I heard, FFXIII does have exploration.

You just have to get really, really far into the game.

 

[Mr. Gency]

Other than the stories I've read here on similar threads...

Anything having to do with religion.

Seriously, people, what the hell?

This

 

[Agrosmurf]

My family was making fun of my sister, calling her ignorant.
She didn't know what ignorant meant, and she said she didn't care.

Fail.