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[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I would question the ability to line people up on a railroad track such that they have a 1:1 correspondence with the real numbers.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

It's totally doable because they are real people.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, for any length of track, you would need to stack infinite people...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If we are already dealing with infinities of peoples then we can deal just as easily with infinities of tracks. I just struggle to see what kind of power source the trolly uses to plow through that many people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s powered by screams.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The blood of the innocent also works

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We have nuclear subs, why not nuclear trollies?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Nuclear lasts a long time, but it's nothing compared to infinity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

An infinity cube, of course

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Arbitrary precision engineering

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

just use a well ordering of the reals and you should be fine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The real question for me is what unit of distance would be used for the integer representation… It could take 1 meter, 1 Km, 1 Au, or even 1 Infinity to represent the distance between every person and the next. Also, are we using a linear or logarithmic scale?

This is not to mention the lack of info on how fast the train is going, and whether or not it’s accelerating.