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Re:Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives by 20after4 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:36AM (#24165977)
infinity is an interesting thing. Every combination of thing that can be, will be and has been. The probability of not existing is zero.
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Re:Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives by crooked-v on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:55AM (#24166067)
Not true. 'Possible things' and 'impossible things' are two separate categories, and you can have an infinity of one that doesn't include the other.

For another example of separate infinities, consider the set of integers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5...) and the set of integers-plus-one-half (1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5...). Both are infinite, but don't contain the other.

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