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Wikipedia’s Ship of Theseus page

December 23rd, 2023

How apt :)

Wikipedia

Here's how the "Ship of Theseus" page looked in July 2003 when it was first created! Since then, the article has been edited 1792 times. 0% of its original phrases remain.

A Wikipedia page for Ship of Theseus is shown. The article reads "According to an ancient Greek legend, Theseus had a warship that was preserved as a historical relic by the Athenians. Some of its boards rotted and had to be replaced. After many, many years, many such replacements occurred. Eventually, none of the original boards were present. Philosophers could then debate whether it was the same ship that Theseus had used, and if not, when it had ceased to be so. A modern embellishment If Theseus paid a nontransferable fee, allowed to be used for only one ship, for the privilege of docking in a particular harbor, would he violate the non-transferability of his license if repeated replacement of boards eventually had the result described above?"
December 15th, 2023, 11:27 pm 4,123 boosts 5,264 favorites

Lyrical Garfield

December 21st, 2023[via]

A bot trying to detect & replace Garfield text with random lines from random songs.

Klifur

December 20th, 2023[via]

A squishy physics rock-climbing game.

Voyager Golden Record

December 19th, 2023

In 1977, NASA launched space probes Voyagers 1 and 2 to photograph the solar system.

Each probe includes a gold-plated copper phonograph record, containing voices, music, and analog-encoded images representing our species.

This is an attempt to re-create what an alien species would see and hear if they were to find and decode the record.