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Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by dagenix on Sunday September 02, 2018 @11:09AM (#17897239)
What I'd like to know - is the beach still there or did it get washed away again in the last year?
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by s_dev on Sunday September 02, 2018 @11:11AM (#17897249)
Still there -- would be news again here in Ireland if that happened.
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by spacehome on Sunday September 02, 2018 @07:56AM (#17896676)
It's probably not the same sand, or at least not very much of it.
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by joncrocks on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:11AM (#17896700)
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by jimnotgym on Sunday September 02, 2018 @09:06AM (#17896837)
Or in the UK the canonical example is still "Trigger's Broom"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAh8HryVaeY

Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by headmelted on Sunday September 02, 2018 @09:33AM (#17896941)
I was wondering if someone had already posted this. Absolute classic.
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by 14 on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:29AM (#17896749)
Lol is my vehicle a 97 Plymouth Grand Voyager or is it something newer? I call it a Theseus Grand Voyager.
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by Axsuul on Sunday September 02, 2018 @11:47AM (#17897376)
This is great, how can I find more of these thought experiments?
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by ex3xu on Sunday September 02, 2018 @07:11PM (#17899199)
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by tellonuk on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:38AM (#17896766)
Every seven years (or 10, depending on which story you hear) we become essentially new people, because in that time, every cell in your body has been replaced by a new cell. (Including the Brain)

https://www.livescience.com/33179-does-human-body-replace-ce...

Same person, or new person??

Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by BoiledCabbage on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:45AM (#17896785)
Why would you post a link to an article that disproves your own comment?

Both the 7 years portion and the brain cells being replaced?

I don't get it.

Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by okonomiyaki3000 on Sunday September 02, 2018 @11:45AM (#17897367)
Give him a break, he only uses 10% of his brain, you know.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-us...

Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by sandworm101 on Sunday September 02, 2018 @10:45AM (#17897154)
And tattoos. And teeth.
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by pavel_lishin on Sunday September 02, 2018 @09:31AM (#17896934)
If I read Larry Niven's "Protector" in 2002, and re-read it again today in 2018, is it the same book, or a new book?
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by eesmith on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:25PM (#17897746)
Or "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...

There are stories I reread after many years, where I had a rather different understanding the second time. I'm fine with saying that it's the same text but a different story, because the text is interpreted by the reader to become the story.

I'm also fine with saying it's the same story. The Mississippi is the Mississippi even though it isn't the same river.

Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by AnthonBerg on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:07PM (#17897669)
Is it the same person reading?
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by runciblespoon on Sunday September 02, 2018 @04:14PM (#17898419)
@spacehome: β€œIt's probably not the same sand, or at least not very much of it.”

What was wrong with that comment that it got voted into invisibility?

Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by frankzinger on Monday September 03, 2018 @04:55AM (#17901370)
Perhaps because it's rather obvious that it's different sand?
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ... by KindOne on Sunday September 02, 2018 @06:47PM (#17899105)
Interesting comment, but I suspect others disagree and they downvoted it.