EvilDragon detected


They* say that, statistically speaking, there are 6 other people who look basically identical to you (give or take any external factors like hair, fat, scars, etc...)
So ya know, it's not impossible to stumble across another EvilDragon look-alike.
(* I forget who "they" are. I learned this interesting factoid 12 years ago in university; there's basically a billion different ways our DNA can be rearranged to produce different humans, or something like that, and with 6-7 billion people on the planet...)
 
I have already seen two pictures of people looking very similar to me (one was taken by friends at an event where I was but I came too late to meet him), and when I was younger one of my uncle once met someone who looked like an older version of my then self, who also had the same first name.
 
I've got to know about two to three doppelgängers of myself by now in my country - one (or two) in this city.
In all cases people didn't believe me that I'm someone else, I've heard about those multiple times by now since they seem to share some of my (rather unusual) hobbies as well as my face, height, beard, hair, etc...
Never met them, if those are seperate identities of myself, I must get around a bloody lot and have excellent time management.
 
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WizardStan said:
They* say that, statistically speaking, there are 6 other people who look basically identical to you (give or take any external factors like hair, fat, scars, etc...)
So ya know, it's not impossible to stumble across another EvilDragon look-alike.
(* I forget who "they" are. I learned this interesting factoid 12 years ago in university; there's basically a billion different ways our DNA can be rearranged to produce different humans, or something like that, and with 6-7 billion people on the planet...)
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I suspect they didn't know as much about gene expression 12 or so years ago as they do now, and they may have been overlooking diet and diseases, but I estimate with 3*10^9 base pairs and a number of other variables, there's probably nobody quite like you ;)
 
Oh, no doubt. The number of facts I've learned that have been radically altered in my lifetime is probably significant. Things that we "knew" about gravity and electricity 20 years ago, what we "knew" about weather and the environment 30 years ago; what we knew about DNA could easily change in 10.
Did you know that you *don't* actually have four distinct sections of the tongue for taste? Your tastebuds are all kinda just mashed around and you can taste sweet and salty and bitter and sour anywhere. That was a recent update to the things I learned when I was younger.
 
i was going to tell the story of my Trump-supporting doppelgänger, but i think you guys already topped it...
 
Short EvilDragon, hair back; and Tall EvilDragon, hair forward. Interesting find.
 
Neelix said:
That one never made sense to me anyway. If that were true then how something tasted would change as it moved around in your mouth.
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Of course, most of what you taste comes from your nose anyway.

I think I heard that news about the tastebuds on BBC Radio 5's science hour podcast's Myth-conception section. Most recently they've just been about whether women's menstrual cycles sync up if they cohabit (answer: they don't), and whether NASA invented Velcro (they didn't, and I knew that one already). From time to time they have something genuinely novel to clarify, and the rest of the program is usually of interest if you're geared up for that science shtick anyway.
 
ible said:
i was going to tell the story of my Trump-supporting doppelgänger, but i think you guys already topped it...
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I kinda get the feeling this is your way of explaining away how you got caught on camera at one of his rallies or something. I have my doubts. :p
 
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