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Announcement#1 2004-11-01 02:49:21
To start off with a cliche'...A farmer is taking a fox, a chicken, and a bag of grain home. To get there. he must cross a river. He is only allowed to take one item across the bridge with him at a time. If the fox is left alone with the chicken, the fox will eat the chicken. If the chicken is left alone with the grain, the chicken will eat the grain. How can the farmer cross the river without any of his posessions being eaten? "Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - R. Feynman "Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it!" (Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, p13) Offline #2 2004-11-01 16:49:09Re: To start off with a cliche'...Cross with chicken Chemists are physicists who don't do math.  Offline #3 2004-11-02 00:14:49
Re: To start off with a cliche'...Okay, okay! I did say it was a cliche`, didn't I? = ) How about this one: "Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - R. Feynman "Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it!" (Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, p13) Offline #4 2004-11-02 23:49:08Re: To start off with a cliche'...Both pieces of paper say death. The way to live is to pick neither. You say that they "permit" you to pick a piece of paper; you don't say you must. Chemists are physicists who don't do math. Offline #5 2004-11-08 09:52:45
Re: To start off with a cliche'...Reach into the hat and remove one of the pieces of paper. Then, melodramatically light a match and burn it without opening it, and instruct your captors to examine the piece of paper that remains in the hat. Since that piece of paper will have the word “DEATH” written on it, then it will be obvious to your captors that you must have chosen (and—happily for you The truth is out there. Offline #7 2005-01-14 09:55:59
Re: To start off with a cliche'...Well, if you didn't have a match, all you would have to do is eat it. Offline #8 2006-03-23 01:32:08
Re: To start off with a cliche'...About the first one: Ever wonder what Soylent Green tasted like? Nerd's pickup line: You can be sine of theta squared and I'll be cosine of theta squared. Let's get together and become one. Offline |
—destroyed) the piece of paper with the word “LIFE” written on it. Hence, they must set you free.