Monuments to Stupidity

[Win2Win]

HOW DO YOU KNOW?!?! Trillions and trillions of the things must have fallen over the last billion years, who has checked this so called fact?

Each one is made of different quantum particles, so none can be the same, as the energy would have moved on and been replaced by the time that particle ever makes another snowflake.

[Onlyforfun]

Prove it!

OK, I accept that it is likely that no 2 have ever had exactly the same molecuylar structure, but surely 2 in the whole of history must have had the same large scale pattern... prove they haven't, go on...

[bigcumba]

prove they haven't, go on...

Easy.... it's because God made them that way and God moves in mysterious ways. :wink

[wb]

Prove it!

OK, I accept that it is likely that no 2 have ever had exactly the same molecuylar structure, but surely 2 in the whole of history must have had the same large scale pattern... prove they haven't, go on...

Is it not the same with fingerprints? People say that they can't be the same, but what they really mean is that the chances are billions to one (or more?)

[Onlyforfun]

Exactly, DNA with all 20 marker sequences intact gives you a 1 in a billion chance of it belonging to someone else, but the vagaries of statistics mean it is just as likely to match the guy next door or some bloke in China.