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Post by Ron Gaul on Dec 10, 2016 12:35:27 GMT -5
Not even gonna try answering DL's riddle.
Here's one that's not original, or particularly hard...
I am difficult to find, and when you do find me, to say my name will break me.
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Dec 10, 2016 12:37:41 GMT -5
schwarzchild radius, event horizon? (edit) Wife and I are scrambling for an answer. You are getting warmer. [edit] Those 2 concepts are functionally the same thing, just that one has hard math behind it. I'm a huge fan of black holes if you couldn't tell. [/] |
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Dec 10, 2016 12:38:15 GMT -5
Not even gonna try answering DL's riddle. Here's one that's not original, or particularly hard... I am difficult to find, and when you do find me, to say my name will break me. Silence. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 12:40:30 GMT -5
Not even gonna try answering DL's riddle. Here's one that's not original, or particularly hard... I am difficult to find, and when you do find me, to say my name will break me. Silence. so damn quick haha |
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Post by Ron Gaul on Dec 10, 2016 12:41:32 GMT -5
Correct... yeah, that one's dreadfully easy.
You should change your username to Edward Nigma with all these riddles you're posting...?
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Post by Ron Gaul on Dec 10, 2016 12:44:33 GMT -5
Ever-changing am I, yet I cannot be changed. What am I?
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Post by [AurN]Zenotaph on Dec 10, 2016 12:46:09 GMT -5
Gravity???
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Dec 10, 2016 12:47:19 GMT -5
Ever-changing am I, yet I cannot be changed. What am I? Time. |
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Post by Ron Gaul on Dec 10, 2016 12:50:54 GMT -5
Correct, Mr. Nigma.
I am always constant, yet I am always relative. What am I?
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Dec 10, 2016 12:54:09 GMT -5
Space.
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Dec 10, 2016 12:54:42 GMT -5
A sphere with no surface, a container with no walls, and yet within me is a light greater than all of the heavens. What am I? schwarzchild radius, event horizon? (edit) Wife and I are scrambling for an answer. You are getting warmer. [edit] Those 2 concepts are functionally the same thing, just that one has hard math behind it. I'm a huge fan of black holes if you couldn't tell. [/] Bumping |
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Post by nightmarepatrol on Dec 10, 2016 12:59:45 GMT -5
A man builds a house. All four walls are pointing north. After three days, a bear shows up. What color is the bear? If all four walls were pointing south there would a white bear. In the current configuration that would place the house in Antarctica where there are no bears. |
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Post by [AurN]Zenotaph on Dec 10, 2016 13:15:40 GMT -5
A penguin maybe?
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Post by Ron Gaul on Dec 10, 2016 13:16:13 GMT -5
Good answer, just not the one I'm looking for. I believe space is not truly relative; it's infinite. |
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Dec 10, 2016 13:25:18 GMT -5
Good answer, just not the one I'm looking for. I believe space is not truly relative; it's infinite. The speed of Light. |
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Post by Ron Gaul on Dec 10, 2016 13:36:06 GMT -5
The speed of light is also not relative. It has been measured.
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Dec 10, 2016 13:52:07 GMT -5
The speed of light is also not relative. It has been measured. I disagree (as there is still a huge debate about that in quantum mechanics), but concede that it's not your intended answer. I'll have to think about that one some more, thanks  I love a challenge. These are not riddles [in the traditional sense], but kind of a counter-point and two of my favorite and classic thought exercises. Please don't nit-pick the obvious physics issues, like we can't get anything to travel near the speed of light, nor create perfect spheres of anything, etc. The intent of the exercise is not to question how they got there, but rather what is going to happen. There are no 'correct' answers to these questions, but they are some of the greatest riddles ever told. Two space ships are travelling towards each other at almost light speed. At the prow of each ship, an astronaut sits with a high powered flashlight. As the two ships approach each other, the flashlights are turned on and pointed at the other ship. What do the astronauts see? An astronaut is in the vacuum of space in a region with no gravitational influences. He is at the center of a perfect sphere shell composed of a material with perfect reflectivity. All outside sources of light are obviously being reflected away, making it perfectly dark inside the sphere. The astronaut pulls out a flashlight and turns it on. What does he see? |
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Post by Ron Gaul on Dec 10, 2016 13:55:14 GMT -5
Granted that the speed of light may not be constant.
My riddle, however, requires a constant that is always relative.
The speed of light, if it is relative or not set, is not constant.
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Dec 10, 2016 14:03:46 GMT -5
Got it! ? (Pi).
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Post by Ron Gaul on Dec 10, 2016 14:05:10 GMT -5
Nope. Not Pi. Or pie...?
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Dec 10, 2016 14:08:17 GMT -5
Dangit! An accurate answer tho, just not the intended one  |
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Post by Ron Gaul on Dec 10, 2016 14:52:16 GMT -5
But is pi relative or infinite? Because the infinite is not relative.
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Dec 10, 2016 15:00:20 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi"The number ? is a mathematical constant, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, [...]" ratio = relative Pi when expressed as a decimal result becomes a non-repeating non-terminating fraction and thus cannot be calculated to an exact decimal value. It is still an absolute and unchanging constant. The 'infinite' portion of most people's perception is due to inherent flaws within the human created 10-base numerical system (aka decimal maths). It is a mathematical riddle that currently cannot be ultimately solved by us pitiful humans.
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Post by Ron Gaul on Dec 10, 2016 15:18:49 GMT -5
But Pi itself is an actual, constant number. The ratio Pi represents is a set number which is not relative.
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Dec 10, 2016 15:24:06 GMT -5
Rawr... not debating that, too far off track |
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Post by Strayed on Dec 10, 2016 16:23:01 GMT -5
There are four apples in a basket, and Adam, Bill, Carl and Dean take one apple each. Why is there still an apple in the basket? Not sure if this has been answered yet, but there is no oxford comma. This means that Carl and Dean took one apple instead of two apples. |
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Dec 10, 2016 16:40:25 GMT -5
There are four apples in a basket, and Adam, Bill, Carl and Dean take one apple each. Why is there still an apple in the basket? Not sure if this has been answered yet, but there is no oxford comma. This means that Carl and Dean took one apple instead of two apples. Grammatical? Lol... The intended answer is that one of the 4 people kept the basket with a single apple in it. (yes, it was answered, but I've kinda flooded the thread with some help, ya?) |
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Post by WE034 on Dec 10, 2016 20:00:33 GMT -5
Copy pasta! 1. What do you get if you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? 2. Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn’t. 3. I tried walking up a hill without a watch but had neither the time nor the inclination. 4. What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care. 5. What do you get when you cross an octopus with a cow? A reprimand from the Scientific Integrity and Professional Ethics Committee and immediate withdrawal of your grant funding. 6. Your mum is so mean, she has no standard deviation. 7. A German asks for a martini. "Dry?" says the bartender. "Nein, just one." 8. Two women walk into a bar and discuss the Bechdel test. 9. Pavlov is sitting at a bar, when all of the sudden the phone rings. Pavlov gasps, "Oh no, I forgot to feed the dogs". 10. How many Marxists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, the lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution. 11. I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it. www.indy100.com/article/11-jokes-only-smart-people-will-understand--Wygs002Fgb |
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Post by WE034 on Dec 10, 2016 20:38:22 GMT -5
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Post by Idras on Dec 11, 2016 17:16:39 GMT -5
What's grey
Made of metal
And One-shots everything?
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