Comments on: 229 – Homeo, Homeo! Wherefore art thou Homeo?

By: Philip

Philip — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:52:58 +0000

Only 1,000,000 times? No wonder it didn’t work! You need at least C10 (=100^10) for this kind of stuff.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:40:56 +0000

Least funny comic ever.

By: P

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:06:41 +0000

rofl – that’s one way to lose the fourth wall

By: Magnus

Magnus — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:18:15 +0000

Actually, when you make a homeopathic remedy, it should be diluted 10^30 times, not a mere 10^6 times… If your pixel is about 0.2 mm wide, it would be a comic strip with the area of 40,000,000,000,000,000 km^2. That’s more than 26,000 times larger than the area of the sun. Now THAT’S diluted!

By: Dwayne Litzenberger

Dwayne Litzenberger — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:31:45 +0000

Each pixel has 3 sub-pixels (one for each of red, green, and blue), so 900 x 407 x 3 = 1,098,900 sub-pixels.

Unfortunately, he went from white to red, which involves changing two of those sub-pixels, so it’s really only been diluted about 500,000 times.

Still, it’s pretty funny.

By: Rowan Copley

Rowan Copley — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:52:45 +0000

thanks for making me clean my monitor

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:02:30 +0000

Not that unlikely actually, the image above is 900 x 407 pixels (366300). If half of those are within the borders, the chance of a single pixel (or more) remaining with 1,000,000x dilution is about 17%

By: Roxolan

Roxolan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:48:18 +0000

Hey, maybe that lone pixel just got lucky. Whatever the number of dilutions, it’s unlikely but possible.

By: jean-françois

jean-françois — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:06:17 +0000

for this to be homeopathy, there needs to be no pixels, the screen retains the pixel’s signature—this is called the “memory of liquid crystal” effect.

By: invisibules

invisibules — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:13:18 +0000

fantastic -- I added this one to my collection "Invisibules the new meme?" at invisibules.org. Don't you think the red pixel makes it a bit busy, and not quite dilute enough for homeopathy?