POSTED AT 1:53 PM December 1, 2009

Beschizza's Law

Beschizza's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced reality is indistinguishable from Photoshop."

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Anonymous | #1 | 14:33 on Tue, Dec. 1 | Reply

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Is this real? or is it photo shopped ^^

jamied21 | #2 | 15:28 on Tue, Dec. 1 | Reply

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Funny, I was just thinking about Clarke's law.

sum.zero | #3 | 15:40 on Tue, Dec. 1 | Reply

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that goes works both ways:

"Any sufficiently advanced Photoshop is indistinguishable from reality."

tallpat | #4 | 16:04 on Tue, Dec. 1 | Reply

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Now I'm pondering the meaning of "advanced reality", and the prospect of a deficiently advanced reality...

Rob Beschizza | #5 | 16:07 on Tue, Dec. 1 | Reply

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Technically, it should read "from shoop."

ChibiR | #6 | 16:46 on Tue, Dec. 1 | Reply

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The inevitable conclusion of that law will be people acting like this: http://xkcd.com/331/ ;)

Daemon | #7 | 21:08 on Tue, Dec. 1 | Reply

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"Look Neo, I'm telling you there's no bloody spoon, alright?"

Anonymous | #8 | 23:33 on Wed, Dec. 2 | Reply

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To the person passing the 10th floor that jumped off the 20th floor, while thinking it's all imaginary.

"Good luck with that...!"

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