# Count to infinity in pictures **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 4, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824 "2014-03-04T14:19:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 53
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1041 "2014-04-20T15:37:27Z")
[If you fiddle with the knobs enough, you can pick up radio signals from Uranus.](http://timeeusa.com/images/1041bg.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1042 "2014-04-20T16:47:10Z")
[Trainspotting.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Austria_1042_01.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1043 "2014-04-20T19:48:55Z")
[You don’t want to mess with those millwrights](http://pages.ca.inter.net/~guildsman/emblems/indiana1043.GIF) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1044 "2014-04-20T21:40:32Z")
[More Pentacost than Easter](http://www.covenantnc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Acts-10_44-46.png) ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1045 "2014-04-20T22:32:27Z")
> **[Approximations](https://xkcd.com/1047/)** > > Two tips: 1) 8675309 is not just prime, it's a twin prime, and 2) if you ever find yourself raising log(anything)^e or taking the pi-th root of anything, set down the marker and back away from the whiteboard; something has gone horribly wrong. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1046 "2014-04-20T23:17:22Z")
[1046](http://api.ning.com/files/zzTujAkGhSuIxJrf79i9jE2HtF56dj5VOVpwfINDLt-zdJSUOz97E9LSjykz012Gp-Xfe0Q3mWdBA1YA9lMIFw__/cd1046_1_500.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1047 "2014-04-20T23:24:47Z")
Anyhow: 1047: [Gotta have standards](http://www.safelincs.co.uk/shopimages/products/high/BS_EN_1047-1_2005.jpg) And because I don’t see a 1045 in xkcd 1047, [sing, you sinners!](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tm6rbwLR7Es/S-AHtQcbMRI/AAAAAAAAUOc/9yVTUI8PlOs/s1600/how1045-1.jpg) And **Jamicat** , welcome to our game. The way it’s played is: 1. The number N has to show up in the image you link to in post N. 2. It’s gotta be in the image itself, not elsewhere on the webpage, or in a title that’s in the link to the image, or some other place besides the image itself. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1048 "2014-04-20T23:59:44Z")
[rights](http://img61.xooimage.com/files/d/d/4/1048_rights_tshir...t5tr_400-26cb7b9.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1049 "2014-04-21T01:09:03Z")
[Warning - compressed hydrogen.](http://www.safehousesigns.com/distributors/images/signs/dot_1049.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1050 "2014-04-21T02:03:25Z")
[Back in my day, we didn’t have your fancy Windows. We used DOS and we liked it.](http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/XL/xlperipherals/1050diskdrive.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1051 "2014-04-21T14:07:09Z")
[Sea food – eat food!](https://www.restaurantpassion.com/accounts/nj/bistro105120/photos/bistro1051-29.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1052 "2014-04-21T16:57:50Z")
[New York’s got the ways and means; but just won’t let you be, oh no.](https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1052/_text_image) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1053 "2014-04-21T17:25:31Z")
[All sewn up.](http://www.industrialsewmachine.com/images/Pfaff/pfa1053.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1054 "2014-04-21T17:51:20Z")
[Must be a pretty big building](http://assets.moveglobally.com/website_logos/85/1054logo2.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1055 "2014-04-21T18:17:09Z")
[You look stellar today.](http://www.astrosurf.com/matajur1976/ccdsky/ngc1055_20081229_rgb.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1056 "2014-04-21T18:26:38Z")
[Blind people read number too.](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kom-mudcX5I/SW-y0su4PFI/AAAAAAAAAS4/ucMeJC00EIk/s200/n1056.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1057 "2014-04-21T18:39:06Z")
[3 days - I’m not kidding, 3 days I say.](http://support.alldata.com/sites/default/files/legacy-images/images/stories/userdocs/update-required/error-1057-mesage.png) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1058 "2014-04-21T20:10:33Z")
[I’ll set my watch!](http://autodespair.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/casio-11.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1059 "2014-04-21T23:36:58Z")
[Dodge - Ram tough!](http://www.southtexasdiecast.com/hwguide/images/1000/1059.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1060 "2014-04-22T00:26:57Z")
[Ladies and gentlemen, Elwood!](http://www.indyprops.com/pp-elwood-id1.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824.md?page=54)