[hurflmurfl]

Interestingly, a lot of questions about "how many X" end up with "one" as the answer.

> Question: How many primates does it take to cause endless grief to a neighbouring eastern european country? > Answer: 1

> Question: How many cello strings can vibrate at the same time? > Answer: 1

> Question: How many stem cells does it take to generate an eye ball? > Answer: 1

Except

> Question: How many downvotes will this comment get on hackernews? > Answer: 0

[legohead]

That was my first question:

> Question: How many people are alive? > Answer: 1

I thought it was a pretty profound answer.

[lloeki]

Sounds like we're all the same endlessly reincarnated single person, only at different points in spacetime. Cue one-electron universe:

> The one-electron universe postulate, proposed by theoretical physicist John Wheeler in a telephone call to Richard Feynman in the spring of 1940, is the hypothesis that all electrons and positrons are actually manifestations of a single entity moving backwards and forwards in time. According to Feynman:

>> I received a telephone call one day at the graduate college at Princeton from Professor Wheeler, in which he said, "Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass" "Why?" "Because, they are all the same electron!"

[Rant423]

>Sounds like we're all the same endlessly reincarnated single person, only at different points in spacetime.

Andy Weir - The Egg [1]

[1] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

[lloeki]

Ha, fun! Thanks :)

[feet]

I asked the question simply: "How many?"

The answer is apparently 1.

[gpcr1949]

Good to see the results respect Benford's law and are therefore not fabricated.