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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This guy has never heard of quantum ducks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you didn't know is that the universe is mostly ducks. Dark matter? More like duck matter!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Duck Tales? More like Everything Tales!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

How crispy we talking?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is a single cell within a duck a duck or is it itself not a duck?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Inclusive or gets them every time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is a picture of a duck a duck?

Is the life of a duck a duck?

Is your perception of a duck a duck?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

On the internet, no one can tell you're a duck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about some sorta duck-goose hybrid?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It depends on your definition of duck

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Makes sense to me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What about a platypus? It could be considered part/half-duck. Or even duck-like!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Heretic! How dare you!?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There's a linear algebra joke that can complement this one and goes like this:

Everything in the universe is either a duck or not a duck, but almost everything that is not a duck, if examined very closely or in really short time intervals, it behaves as a duck and you can apply duck methods to it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fewer than 5% of adult cats have a driver's license.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

More like law of excluded middle amirite?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mathematical constructivists hate this meme

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

The fun thing about the existence of infinity is that there is an infinite number of possible points on the line between “duck” and “not duck”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

depends how you define duck; you can very much make it a binary. ultimately every term is just a construct

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Very strong Law of the Excluded Mallard vibes here.

Aren't you forgetting Goduck's Incompleteness Theorem?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hey buddy, you ever here of a loon?

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

Schrödinger would like a word

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just because we can't know if something is a duck or not, doesn't mean there are other possibilities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

wrong. duck fetus

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait. Could Quantum ducks in a superposition state exist? And how would those be a duck or not?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This wouldnt work because if quantums are grouped together they lose their quantum properties. Thus a duck in a superposition can unfortunately not exist :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Source? I'll continue to believe in my quantum super-duck until proven otherwise!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is no definite proof, there is also no definite proof that a quantum can even be in a superposition at all (in the sense od being in two states at once) becuae we cannot observe it. Physicist Niels Bohr for example believes that the outcome is already set long before we observe it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about a fertilized but unhatched duck egg? That's kinda both a duck and not a duck.

I think you'd consider a roast duck a duck, but what about a duck drumstick? Would you say that's not a duck? If so, how much of the roast duck needs to be connected for it to be a duck?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Since this is indeed a binary system, every part of "Duck" is also "Duck". So a duck salad is not duck, bit the meat in it is "duck".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Infinity is only a concept, nothing is infinite.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well when you put it that way...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Except muscovies. They are both duck and not duck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You may see a duck, but Stanley sees a bucket.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Surely you mean a ducket?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What about the cells the form the wall around the heart of the duck? Is that a duck?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They are duck

Not individual ducks but a collective duck

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If a duck was about to hit his head on something, how would you warn him?

"Hey duck!" ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They are called ducks because they duck.

https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/67244-ducks-are-performing-head-bobbing-mating-dance-high-definiti

information in this text has not been peer reviewed

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