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Sleightech wrote:Dependant on which side of the moon, would that not be the length of the Lunar equinox? Maybe showing my ignorance here.
The Magic Herring wrote:How about, if a tree falls and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Lawrence wrote:Heard someone going on about vacuums the other day, about how if you managed to suck all the air out of a room and then dropped a penny in that room, would it float?
(I spent a few minutes trying to explain this to someone who was slightly drunk and not wanting to be told he was wrong, that was a laugh, you just can't argue probably with the truely ignorant)
Lawrence wrote:The Magic Herring wrote:How about, if a tree falls and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Yes. (assuming it's not, like, in a vacuum or something)
Robbie wrote:Lawrence wrote:The Magic Herring wrote:How about, if a tree falls and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Yes. (assuming it's not, like, in a vacuum or something)
Ah, but sound is the perception of vibration, strictly speaking. If there are no living creatures around to hear, there is vibration, but surely there can't be sound...?
Trez wrote:I sadly know too many puzzles and riddles. I always liked
"A boy has twice as many sisters as he has brothers, though his sister has the same number of brothers as she has sisters. How many boys and how many girls?"
Lawrence wrote:(this leads on to another one of my favourite pub arguements, and is usually followed up with the monty hall problem)
Tomo wrote:Lawrence wrote:(this leads on to another one of my favourite pub arguements, and is usually followed up with the monty hall problem)
Ooooh, Monty Hall. A complete headf**k if ever there was one!
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