@lolism: My suggestion is to print the entire image onto a canvas, just the way it's shown above, including the woman's hands and bottom half of her face. Make it a golden rectangle about five or six feet tall. It would be something you could easily imagine hanging on a gallery wall. People might take it for satire,…

This will mark one of the first times art lovers and art haters can reach full agreement: That painting is hideous.

@GetOutOfBox: You read a totally different point than I did. The point I got was that a painting of triangles can be art, but isn't always art. It takes more than a recipe. In fact, following a recipe is about the lowest form of self-expression you can engage in. Better to try something yourself, without following…

@Johnbobz: It would have to be a constitutional amendment. That means not just Congress, but 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of states. Good luck.

@jetRink: I was thinking that as well. The whole "castles in the air" phenomenon.

@jetRink: If those ice-thickness changes are average rates, then they wouldn't preclude a local change that lies outside the average.

@grendelthing: Good point on the wanting to believe. I think some level of belief just for the heck of it is harmless.

@roll41: I think you're missing my point. The study showed that they could predetermine if someone was going to be good at games, simply by looking at a certain part of their brain. This is before the person had been exposed to games. As if their brain were better built for gaming.

Interesting. Is there an inverse relationship with social skills?

@mikepetty: I wasn't saying there's no physical limit. I was only saying that there are ways to make the helmet safer without making it thicker. I can tell that you know this after reading your second comment, but your first comment sort of sounded like we were maxed out on the design and materials side, which isn't…

@DPeezy: I understand your point, but I think you're attributing the helmet "solution" to the wrong problem. The helmets and pads were never intended to make the game less violent, they were intended to diminish injury. At which they were very successful.

@mikepetty: There is a hard limit imposed by thickness/distance, but that's only for a given material or design. Improvements to material and/or design can still give you a safer helmet without changing the thickness, and we haven't reached the end of the line for either of these.

@TendoMentis: This conversation has split into two separate questions:

@Voyou_Charmant: When that happens, it's usually because the helmet isn't adjusted properly to fit the player. And the reason the players leave them like that is because when you adjust them the right way, the players complain about them being uncomfortable.

@DPeezy: Back in the early days of American football, people got horrific injuries. They were even dying of playing-related injuries quite often. There were movements here and there to ban the game altogether. And those were guys that were way smaller and slower than the players today. Also, how do you ask someone to…

@TendoMentis: The whole final effect of any type of padding between you and the thing that hits you is to make linear deceleration less sudden.

@Dr.Preston!: The way I read it, it sounds like they'll stop giving them to anybody after a certain timeframe.

@KillerBee: Then why is 9 last?

@Kelevra: It's also the most common second, third, and fourth digit. The distribution of the nth digit, as n increases, rapidly approaches 10% for each individual digit. So if you add up the distributions from 1 to n, 1 will still be the most common.

I can't figure out why the number 6 is most popular unless people just type 666 into the search bar all the time.