The Misappliance Of Science

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Snowflakes are the loneliest people

Unknowable: No two snowflakes are alike.

This is unprovable, but the odds are in the favor of the idea that there have been identical snowflakes. According to meteorologist Jay Cardosi, the average snowflake has about 100 million molecules. The arrangement of those molecules do inspire the idea that identical flakes must be extremely rare, but when you consider the trillions of flakes that fall each year, and the billions of years that snow has fallen, it does seem a statistical inevitability that there have been identical snowflakes. Of course, certainty is an impossibility.

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• Meteorologists weigh in