RobinZ comments on Privileged Snuff - Less Wrong

17 Post author: rwallace 22 January 2010 05:38AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 22 January 2010 03:30:58PM 0 points [-]

The fact that nature is banging particles at higher energies together should make it easy to get the million statements together. In 2011 no black hole will form because of two particles banging together with that amount of energy. In 2012 no no black hole will form because of two particles banging together with that amount of energy. ... In 1000012 no no black hole will form because of two particles banging together with that amount of energy.

There you have a million predictions and I'm certain that they are all true.

Comment author: RobinZ 22 January 2010 03:59:12PM 0 points [-]

This is chiefly convincing because the Earth is more than a million years old, and has almost certainly been struck by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays at an average rate close to once a year for the most recent million years.