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how can there be 7 billion different fingerprints?
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KnowItAll wrote:how can there be 7 billion different fingerprints?
Turn it around: what makes you think it's so easy to make an exact copy of another?
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just like how can no snowflake be the exact same

wouldn't identical twins have the same finger prints
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AC/DC Rocks wrote:just like how can no snowflake be the exact same
I never actually bought into that either. Who took the time and trouble to go throughout the world taking pictures of every single snow flake, and then put them in a database so that they could be compared for doubles???
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KnowItAll wrote:how can there be 7 billion different fingerprints?
Why are you even asking ? After all you KnowItAll :wink:
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KnowItAll wrote:
AC/DC Rocks wrote:just like how can no snowflake be the exact same
I never actually bought into that either. Who took the time and trouble to go throughout the world taking pictures of every single snow flake, and then put them in a database so that they could be compared for doubles???
I did a quick yahoo search

we are talking about microscopic differences, but I know what you mean, you would think eventually there would be a match.
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AC/DC Rocks wrote:just like how can no snowflake be the exact same

wouldn't identical twins have the same finger prints
Finger prints for twins aren't the same. Characteristics can be the same though. Just think about how things would have to align to be identical, that would be even weirder.

As for snowflakes, they are three dimensional, and I would think that it would be even harder to have the exact same size and pattern than finger prints.
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Rammer wrote:
AC/DC Rocks wrote:just like how can no snowflake be the exact same

wouldn't identical twins have the same finger prints
Finger prints for twins aren't the same. Characteristics can be the same though. Just think about how things would have to align to be identical, that would be even weirder.

As for snowflakes, they are three dimensional, and I would think that it would be even harder to have the exact same size and pattern than finger prints.

I also think so.
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Q) What did the career criminal say to the princess

A) Never leave your prints behind.

Q) What did the blonde princess say when she was told her prints matched the prints at the scene of the crime

A) They must be twins
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