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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #60 on: January 22, 2011, 01:33:24 pm »

That's correct.

Actually, you don't need a sliced bit of cheese.  As long as you had one of the reasonably square ones, you could easily fold it.  Sure, it'd break a normal cheese, but this cheese can't be broken except by a knife.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #61 on: January 22, 2011, 01:40:58 pm »

Ha! Awesome!

What's heavier, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #62 on: January 22, 2011, 01:41:23 pm »

Ugh.

They're both the same weight, one pound.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #63 on: January 22, 2011, 01:43:01 pm »

Ugh.

They're both the same weight, one pound.
Hehehe...
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #64 on: January 22, 2011, 01:43:29 pm »

Pounding some one in the face with a pound of gold would probably give a heavier blow, however.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #65 on: January 22, 2011, 01:45:43 pm »

Well yeah, it's denser, so more of it hits a smaller area. But they do not weigh the same.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #66 on: January 22, 2011, 01:57:09 pm »

Wait, there was an image to accompany the answer to the other riddle.

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And a comment about your brain needing to be as flexible as the cheese.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #67 on: January 22, 2011, 02:12:00 pm »

Ugh.

They're both the same weight, one pound.
Well that depends. You can buy a lot less gold with one pound than you can buy feathers.
I'd say feathers would be heavier.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #68 on: January 22, 2011, 02:44:29 pm »

Ugh.

They're both the same weight, one pound.
Well that depends. You can buy a lot less gold with one pound than you can buy feathers.
I'd say feathers would be heavier.
Totally right for totally the wrong reasons :P

You see, gold gets weighed in Troy pounds, which weigh less than regular pounds.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #69 on: January 22, 2011, 03:59:05 pm »

At any rate, no, nothing about it will move faster than (or at) the speed of light, because that just plain can't happen.
Eh. Regarding the scissors problem. Couldn't there be the possibility that there is just a shitload of tunneling occurring on the blades or something? When something tunnels through a vacuum or matter it essentially ends up on the other side of whatever it tunnel instantaneously. So I guess the best explanation of the scissors question would be that any points past the speed of light would essentially begin to "lag" through the air/vacuum. It would still be moving the speed of light, but it would be compensating by teleporting to catch up.

What in God's name are you talking about? Quantum tunneling is a bizarre, super-small-scale phenomenon. None of that needs to come into the question. The fact of the matter is that the longer the lever (in this case, a scissor arm) is, and the heavier it is, the more inertia it has and the harder and harder it is to make it move faster. It won't move at the speed of light unless you have super-magical arms capable of transmitting infinite energy to it. You don't.

For the guillotine... nothing's actually moving horizontally, is it?  We just perceive a kindof wave moving along the bottom.  So perhaps you could create an illusion of faster than light travel in this manner.

Right. The point of intersection between the blade's bottom and some arbitrary horizontal line can move faster than the speed of light. Given a sufficiently small angle, it could do it even at relatively slow falling speeds.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #70 on: January 22, 2011, 04:05:39 pm »

Question time:

There's this unusual little bar, where you can get a free beer if you know the secret code. The secret code works like this: You sit down at the bar. The bartender tells you a number. And you tell him another number. If it's right, you get a free beer. For example, a customer goes up to the bar and the bartender says, "Six." The customer says, "Three," and he gets his free beer. The second fellow goes up to the bar, and the bartender says, "Twelve." The customer says, "Six," and he gets his free beer! A third customer sits at the bar, and the bartender says, "Fourteen." The customer says, "Eight." He gets a free beer. You're sitting there. The bartender turns to you and says, "Twenty-two."

What do you say?
I say "Nine".

And you get a free beer.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #71 on: January 22, 2011, 04:07:48 pm »

Question time:

There's this unusual little bar, where you can get a free beer if you know the secret code. The secret code works like this: You sit down at the bar. The bartender tells you a number. And you tell him another number. If it's right, you get a free beer. For example, a customer goes up to the bar and the bartender says, "Six." The customer says, "Three," and he gets his free beer. The second fellow goes up to the bar, and the bartender says, "Twelve." The customer says, "Six," and he gets his free beer! A third customer sits at the bar, and the bartender says, "Fourteen." The customer says, "Eight." He gets a free beer. You're sitting there. The bartender turns to you and says, "Twenty-two."

What do you say?
I say "Nine".

And you get a free beer.
how does that work?
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #72 on: January 22, 2011, 04:09:04 pm »

Not telling ya.

"Forty-two"

Now you try  :P

oh, but you can have the beer. I don't drink.
 
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #73 on: January 22, 2011, 05:40:34 pm »

Eight.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #74 on: January 22, 2011, 05:44:50 pm »

Heh.  It just hit me.  Very good.
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