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Silliness aside, phantom pregnancies are a thing, but you generally don’t get a placenta without something else besides. If there didn’t seem to be anything, it was probably so non-viable that it dissolved or was reabsorbed, kicking off the rejection process.

Most don’t even get to that stage though. Super early miscarriages are said to happen incredibly often and the carrier doesn’t necessarily even know that they’d conceived in the first place. A big hint is a delayed, heavy period, but most people who get periods won’t bat an eye at things like that happening. That’ll happen for a number of - occasionally hard to explain - reasons even without being sexually active.

New fear unlocked: What if babies are only born as babies because the people delivering them expect to be delivering a baby?

Someone with sufficiently strong will (or magic) or who has been completely convinced otherwise could change the outcome. Like this.

… wait. Maybe it only applies to placentas. Let’s hope it’s only placentas.

Next of kin don’t take up debts unless they’re co-signatories. The assets of the deceased generally go to the creditors first, yes, nullifying any inheritance the next of kin may have been in line for, but the inheritance doesn’t then run in reverse if those assets aren’t enough to cover the debt.

That won’t stop the creditor from trying any trick in the book to get the next of kin to pay, including lying about it, but I’d like to hear of a jurisdiction where the next of kin are legally liable.

Secondary shock from this: Popeye was a redhead?! How have I gone this long without knowing that?

Sure, later media has him keep his hat on or else he has only a few wispy hairs if any at all, but I feel like I should have seen this at some point in the past few decades.

Silly crow. That’s the call of Odin.

Well, in order to avoid JavaScript, it’s having to encode all seven possible block states for all possible cells of the 10×8×8 world, and they’ve chosen to use HTML “radio” buttons - a single element - to achieve this. Each radio option has its own label, which, rather than text, is a heavily stylised set of six objects that represent the sides of the cube, which only show up when their respective radio option is set.

7×10×8×8×(1+6) = 40320. The remainder of the lines are basically everything else.

In theory you could have JavaScript generate this on the fly directly into the DOM, and the “game” would still work without needing JavaScript to actually handle any of it, but since they’ve opted to avoid JavaScript altogether, they’ve obviously pre-generated the majority of it with some other language.

The answer is that eventually all trace of the soda would be gone because there are only a finite number of atoms of “soda-stuff” and eventually you’ll end up with a situation where there’s only one molecule left, which - assuming that wasn’t the water part of soda in the first place - will have a 50% chance of being in the half that’s removed before the next dilution step. Theoretically it could survive infinitely many rounds of this, but the chance of that is basically zero.

How many times is that though? For a litre of soda, the lower bound is about 85. A hundred ought to be more than enough. (And 300 times would be enough to dilute the entire observable universe assuming it was soluble in water, so that’s a reasonable upper bound.)

You’d almost certainly stop tasting the soda quite a while before that though. After 20 dilutions you’re into parts per million soda to water.

Things become more complicated if you replace the soda in this experiment with holy water. It seems to be agreed that 50/50 holy to regular water remains holy, but after that, some believe that dilution can be repeated forever (presumably being left to sit for a while after that step) while others claim the holiness disappears once the dilution goes beyond 51%, regardless.