"@Forsakenchild: Well your ideas concerning infinity have a few misunderstandings which can lead to contradictions.
Odds and probability still apply to infinite sets and infinite regions, it's just that they take on different results when we apply them locally over a finite range of things or globally over the entire infinitude.
For example, the chances of me coming across the following string of numbers:
0123456789
in the entire decimal expansion of pi is 100%, a certainty."
"@corpore-metal: Damn, IO9's linkifier function dislikes that URL string, proabably because of the apostrophe.
Here it is again, copy and paste the whole string between the angle brackets into the address field of your browser to load the page I'm talking about."
"@Forsakenchild: I think you're thinking of is Olber's Paradox:
[en.wikipedia.org]'_paradox
It turns out there are several ways to get around it if you want to have an infinite, eternal, globally flat space-time continuum."
"@bakana: rendering quality has nothing to do with the amount of processing power you have...it's shaders and textures and lighting...and then compositing on top of that...
as for Pixar's 'exclusive tech'...it's just as problematic as everything else out there..."
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