Not only can't you ever really "know" anyone on line...

[Dixon Carter Lee]

...you also can't fold a piece of paper in half seven times. Any piece of paper. And size. Any thickness. Try it. I double-dog dare you.

 

[Rubyfruit]

I can't resist a double-dog dare.

 

[sunstruck]

You know I thought I took the prize on stubborn Dix, but I bow to your inner mule. LOL

 

[Rubyfruit]

Yep, you're right. Six was the limit.

 

[70/30]

You also can't be anyone online, so stop perpetrating like you are the next big thing ya dimwits.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I tried everything from cheesecloth to tin foil -- I can't fucking do it more than six times. There must be some secret to the universe in all this...

 

[Liontamr]

Before the end of the day I shall fold a paper in half seven times or I will die trying.

Well ok I won't die trying, but I may get a few blisters on my fingers.

 

[sexy-girl]

i folded it 8 times ... prove that i didnt

i think i maybe helped prove your first point though

 

[sunstruck]

You know I thought I took the prize on stubborn Dix, but I bow to your inner mule. LOL

I take that back. My husband gets the prize. He's currently standing here with two pairs of pliers trying to fold a piece of paper for the seventh time.

If he takes it down to the vice grip I may have to leave him.

 

[Liontamr]

No sooner did I say I would do it, then I did it..

And I can get a picture to prove it

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

i folded it 8 times ... prove that i didnt

Easy. If you had folded it eight times a quantum singularity would have opened and the universe would have collapsed upon itself. I haven't seen that happen yet, ergo...

i think i maybe helped prove your first point though

Somebody you "know" turn out to be married or something?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

No sooner did I say I would do it, then I did it..

And I can get a picture to prove it

In half, not bent.

 

[Lasher]

6 is the absolute limit. I have tested this once and based on that empirical evidence I have no doubt that it's absolutely impossible to go beyond 6.

 

[sunstruck]

I just tried tissue paper. It bends fairly well at 7, but it doesn't fold.

 

[sexy-girl]

Somebody you "know" turn out to be married or something?

no no you're meant to say oh my god you folded the paper 8 times how can that be true ... and therefore because the lack of proof either way i prove that you cant really know because its "online" ... but i forgot the laws of physics damn they always get in my way

 

[Rubyfruit]

6 is the absolute limit. I have tested this once and based on that empirical evidence I have no doubt that it's absolutely impossible to go beyond 6.

God I love a man with confidence.

 

[takingchances42]

...you also can't fold a piece of paper in half seven times. Any piece of paper. And size. Any thickness. Try it. I double-dog dare you.

Sure you can. You are working with a simple example of exponential mathematics. Seven folds, given that number of pieces of paper being folded doubles each time, is equal to folding 2 raised to the 6th power number of sheets, or folding 64 pages in half one time. A bit of a sloppy fold, but easily doable.

The problem is the length of the paper. The previous folds grow closer together to what you are folding, until you can't make a new primary fold anymore. Simply take an ordinary sheet of typing paper that happens to be... oh... say 150-200 feet long... and it can easily be folded in half seven times.

Try it. I double dog dare you.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Damn those pesky laws of physics.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Sure you can. You are working with a simple example of exponential mathematics. Seven folds, given that number of pieces of paper being folded doubles each time, is equal to folding 2 raised to the 6th power number of sheets, or folding 64 pages in half one time. A bit of a sloppy fold, but easily doable.

The problem is the length of the paper. The previous folds grow closer together to what you are folding, until you can't make a new primary fold anymore. Simply take an ordinary sheet of typing paper that happens to be... oh... say 150-200 feet long... and it can easily be folded in half seven times.

Try it. I double dog dare you.

I fucking like this guy. Why can't you all be like him?

 

[Rubyfruit]

I think I'm in love.

 

[Dillinger]

Its official. You people need to get a life.

 

[Liontamr]

In half, not bent.

Well in that case it's a cross between being bent in half a seventh time and being folded...

A night in a pair od vice grips should keep it folded.

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

You can do it with super-thin Japanese Washi-paper.
If you can do it without tearing that is.

yayati, cunning is not one of your qualities.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Please. It's too existential when the morons start heckling the morons.