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Obnoxious Fly
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#21 - 2012-05-21 17:38:54 UTC
How about just half-killing it?
A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small that perhaps in the course of the hour, one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges, and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid.
Copine Callmeknau
Dirty Vagrants
Intergalactic Space Hobos
#22 - 2012-05-21 18:03:42 UTC
Obnoxious Fly wrote:
How about just half-killing it?
A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small that perhaps in the course of the hour, one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges, and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid.

But the cat is in a glass atrium, not a steel atrium

There should be a rather awesome pic here
Obnoxious Fly
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#23 - 2012-05-21 19:38:54 UTC
Copine Callmeknau wrote:
Obnoxious Fly wrote:
How about just half-killing it?
A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small that perhaps in the course of the hour, one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges, and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid.

But the cat is in a glass atrium, not a steel atrium


If everyone keeps their eyes closed the wave-function won't collapse.
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