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Post by Azonthus on Jul 25, 2005 16:24:53 GMT -5
You know those silly thoughts that buzz around in your head during class? Well, I thought I'd pose some of my goofy thoughts/questions to you and see what you thought.
How high is a wall before it's considered a wall and not a half-wall? Is there such a thing as a semi-wall?
Math is supposedly the 'universal language' and if there was an alien race out there, we would supposedly be able to communicate through math. How is this possible if all the measurements are based on things from our solar system? I'm talking about the meter being a portion of the Earths circumfrence or the foot being a goofy earth measurement of 12 inches. days are based on the rotation of our planet, months on the rotation of our moon, and years on the length of time for our planet to travel around our sun. Surely an alien planet wouldn't be exactly like ours and they wouldn't have the same measurements; therefore, we could not communicate with them.
Ok, I'm happy now and I'll head off to my math class.
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Post by Christopher on Jul 25, 2005 19:50:51 GMT -5
First of all, those are good questions, so don't call them pointless.
When it's tall enough to bar you from walking over it? And when a wall is broken?
A fence?
True, a meter may not be called a meter in an alien culture, BUT no matter what you call it, it's still going to be the same length. The name of something isn't going to have any affect on the structure of it. If you call cyanide a vitamin, it's still going to kill you, if you ingest it. We may call it a foot, but they may not have something for a foot, but they still may call it 3.47 of something. Math never changes, even if you have a different system of using it, the answer is still the same. Also, there are other ways of using math to communicate.
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Post by thundertail on Jun 15, 2007 19:48:31 GMT -5
Here's a few that got me scratching my head as a hatchling:
You can tune a piano, but can you tuna fish?
Why was there an outboard motor on the Tidy Bowl man's boat? Where was he going?
How can you get down off a duck's back without breaking it?
(Duh!) Sorry!
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Post by Kyalnick on Jun 19, 2007 11:18:44 GMT -5
((ooc: *laughs crazily* That's funny!  )) Okay, here's another question I just got to ask. A canner excedingly canny one morning remarked to his granny: A canner can can but he think that he can, but a canner can't can a can can he?? Sorry! |
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Post by thundertail on Jun 19, 2007 16:46:54 GMT -5
 How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?  If Holly would and Dinah might, should Sally forth?  Sorry!
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Post by Kyalnick on Jun 21, 2007 9:44:20 GMT -5
:surrender: Sorry! I don't have a better one! Kyalnick |
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Post by Anemone on Sept 24, 2007 17:04:35 GMT -5
I've got one: How can Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers, if pickled peppers are peppers that have already been picked and pickled?
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Post by Kyalnick on Sept 24, 2007 18:52:05 GMT -5
*rubs eyes and tries to make sense of it* WOW!!!  That's good!!! Kyalnick |
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Post by Anemone on Sept 24, 2007 18:54:55 GMT -5
I can't really take credit for that one, though. My friends came up with that at lunch. Straaaaange things happen during lunch.  |
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Post by Kyalnick on Sept 24, 2007 19:04:15 GMT -5
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Post by thundertail on Sept 25, 2007 5:15:22 GMT -5
Ok, I replied to this one; but I want to do it again!  When is a door not a door? When it is ajar!   What happens once in a minute, twice in a moment; but never in a hundred thousand years? The letter 'M'!  I am a box with no hinges, locks or lid; yet inside me a golden treasure is hid. What am I? An egg! What turns young ones old, turns summer cold, makes the foolish bold, pulls cliffs into seas and tears the great mountains down? Time.  Ok, that's enough! (Yes! I watched batman, and read Tolkien as a kid!LOL!) |
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Post by Anemone on Sept 25, 2007 17:48:26 GMT -5
Ah yes, the good old Hobbit riddles...
How about this immortal question: How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop?
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
How do we know that when he dream, we aren't actually awake in another dimension? Which is real--this waking or that waking?
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Post by thundertail on Sept 25, 2007 19:17:10 GMT -5
I can answer those!
1) the owl just took three.
2) depends on if you believe in creation or evolution.
3)sing: 'Row, row, row your boat...'.
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Post by long tail on Sept 26, 2007 1:21:03 GMT -5
If atomes are sphears that are put in a sequense of movement to create objects then what if the univers is an atomic structure of some thing emance and we are just life on an atom to small to be seen by the others  |
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Post by Barry on Sept 26, 2007 13:38:48 GMT -5
Here is a very old one that really is a stomper. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
This one could have many answers.
— Dwaggie
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