no way to know where that row ends.
This opens doors for a few peculiar thoughts.
I give you a 100-dot picture of a pony and you have a line drawing of a pony. I give you a 10-
million dot picture of a pony and you have a high definition unmistakably clear look at the subject. Same for statistics - the bigger the sample the more accurate it generally is.
Started thinking about us. Human beings - been an awful of us. You don't have to go back as far as you think before we're all related:
Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly Think
So I started thinking, in those terms how big of a sample size would you need to get that super-accurate picture of humanity? Could you make one bookend the point where we can all find a common ancestor? What would the other bookend look like? Would it all have to end before we got that picture or could we make some finite mark at each end and divine some purpose, a pattern in there?
Jeez - it's 0515 and Louie and I are just having coffee. Actually, he's just licking his ass I'm drinking coffee
Not the sort of thing that usually invades my thoughts at this hour.