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21 Post author: wwa 01 November 2013 10:07PM

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Comment author: mare-of-night 02 November 2013 12:51:59AM 6 points [-]

I'd bought some apples from a store on campus and was carrying them in a plastic bag while waiting in line to pay at a different store. I heard a thud, and looked down, and there was an apple on the ground. I picked it up, and then felt the bag for holes. I didn't find any. I also counted the number of apples in the bag, and the number of apples I remembered buying were still in there. I knew that it was very, very unlikely that the apple had just appeared there, but I did assign a very small probability that I'd just seen something that didn't fit with known physics. A couple minutes later, the same thing happened again - another thud, another apple appearing on the floor. It only happened twice, though. Orpnhfr nsgre gung, n olfgnaqre cbvagrq bhg gb zr gung gurer jnf n grne va gur fvqr bs gur ont gung jnf arkg gb zl obql, juvpu unq znqr vg uneq gb qrgrpg ol whfg srryvat gur bhgfvqr naq obggbz bs gur ont.

Comment author: philh 03 November 2013 04:26:15PM 1 point [-]

Fb lbh zvferzrzorerq gur ahzore bs nccyrf lbh'q obhtug? Be unq lbh chg gur nccyr onpx va ng gung cbvag?

Comment author: mare-of-night 03 November 2013 05:23:43PM 1 point [-]

V cebonoyl zvferzrzorerq gur ahzore V'q obhtug, be zvfpbhagrq.