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Nice one, Claes. Although technically speaking, my reversed locomotive, which is normal for trains around here, (track runs within 1/4 mile of the house), met your criteria, and while it was not the answer you sought, it was a correct answer. http://www.industreal.spb.ru/smiles/scull.gif
Yes, I'll give you an extra point for that one :thumbs_up even though the reversed locomotive in fact is a part of the train moving in one direction. It's all about how you look at it, I guess. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
/Claes
Let me see if I can get this to post right: Read the following correctly:
STAND.....TAKE...........TO..........WORLD
....I..........YOU........THROW..........THE
A wild guess, perhaps.
I throw you to the world, take stand!
I know this one, but will not spoil it. :)
No, dear Maddie. Although word positioning does have a lot to do with how to read it at that! ;) Aimus has probably seen it before, as it is a rather old puzzle, but he graciously won't spoil it yet. Thanks, oh Great Green Turnip! :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
Well, Aimus, mon ami, you might as well have answered!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Look at the words, and notice how each is carefully positioned. That is crucial to reading this coded message. Then things become so simple: Thus:
I understand you undertake to overthrow the underword.
Now can you read these two--properly?
wurds
gege
Did anyone even Try to do these? They aren't rocket science.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
The first one is what? Misspelled words
The second one is what? Scrambled eggs
You make them too hard when they are really simple!
Read this, correctly:r|e|a|d|i|n|g :brow:
Reading between the lines.
But, of course! Very good, Maddie! Now a little picture quiz:Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
http://www.cincinnatiskeptics.org/me...s/bullhead.gif
The bull in the picture just swallowed a bomb. Describe that in one word.
http://aquaplant.tamu.edu/images/pla..._grass_drw.gif Unfortunatly, it exploded. This is all that is left. Describe it in one word.
And remember, nothing is ever what it seems.... :p
Why is it that we never can delete a double post!!!? :rolleyes:
Now a little picture quiz: Frankly, I thought this a dreadfully old chestnut, but it has been up a while with no guesses. I will give multiple choice, which will, of course, give away the whole game...
http://www.cincinnatiskeptics.org/me...s/bullhead.gif
The bull in the picture just swallowed a bomb. Describe that in one word.
Is the situation:
A.) Horrible
B.) Terrible
C.) Abominable
D.) Contemptible
http://aquaplant.tamu.edu/images/pla..._grass_drw.gif Unfortunately, it exploded. This is all that is left. Describe it in one word.
Is this situation:
A.) Horrible
B.) Noble
C.) Laughable
D.) Notable
And remember, nothing is ever what it seems.... :p
Abominable, laughable.
Abominable, Noble.
Ah, yes. All you had to do was look at the picture and listen to the description. In the first, you had a bull, which you are told swallowed a bomb. That is (a bomb in a bull) abominable. The second shows a single sprig that survived the explosion, which you are told happened. What is missing? The bull. (No bull) Noble. Think something up someone! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by RobinHood3000
Arthurian legend notwithstanding, why couldn't Lancelot topple King Arthur on his own, but Lancelot and Galahad could?
I may be off here, as I was never an expert player, but in the game of Chess, it would require two knights to checkmate (topple) a king. :idea:
Precisely -- very good, Pendragon!
Hummmmmm.
It is the beginning of eternity,
The end of time and space
The begininng of every end
And the end of every place
What horror might this discribe?
2.71828182845904523536... ,
base of the natural logarithm,
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E is quite obvious isn't it, Tal. You give us a puzzle. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Taliesin
Okay.
Here is a story we heard on a science day.
This is a real story. And is not based on word play.
Quite long time ago, about in the beginning of the previous century, there was a concert hall in some city in America that people wanted to improve or something like that.
They employed a physics professor to work on the acoustics.
The professor was quite a serious man and did the following experiment every day, many times:
He built a wooden soundproof box in the concert with a hole on top. He went inside that box with just his head out. He fired a gun inside the concert hall (he probably pulled a string attached to the trigger or something like that) and measured the time of the echo (well, how long the echo lasted). He did this experiment every day and his results were quite strange - which can be seen on the following graph - the echo time first shortens slowly and then jolts suddenly upwards. Then it starts all over again.
The interval of this period is fourteen days.
What is the reason behind these strange results?
The graph is an added image, but it is not exact - it was quickly done. (the y axis shows the time in seconds the echo lasted and the x-axis shows the days)
I think it has to do with wave motion, like the pebble dropped in a pond, but I'll admit I'm drawing blind here. I'm lousy at physics. :p
No comfirmation or denial? Hummmm.
What does this say, read correctly?
nowhsmackdabere Hee. A good one, I think!:lol:
Now he smacked a bear? :goof: That's what I get, but it's probably a little more complex. :)
This doesn't have much to do with theoretical physics. The problem is very down-to-earth and doesn't need any equations to show what is wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
For a clue we would say: if we had done the experiment, the time would have continued to shorten. There would be no jolts in the graph.
Would the trend be the same if he used a method other than a gun to create the sound?
Yes, we think so.
The gun, or method of making the sound is irrelevant.
Hee. Actually it's a little less complex. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by AimusSage
Just so I understand correctly, Tal, the box is soundproof, but his head isn't in the box but sticking out? And you say it doesn't matter what makes the sound, the results will be the same or similiar. Hummmm. I'm debating on that box. Why in heaven's name would you build a soundproof box for your BODY to get into, when your head and ears are outside the box? Vibrations-- is that the answer? http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/fr...smiley-013.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Taliesin
Well, mine is very simple. It is an expression often used in the South.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
The word seperates like this NO smack dab WHERE. So you have an old expression used often to describe being lost, or hard to find: It was smack dab in the middle of nowhere!"" :lol: :lol: :lol:
What Tal's is, I don't know.
No, we wouldn't say "vibrations" were the answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
You would leave your head and ears out so that you could hear when the echoing stopped. The box mirrors sound so that is why you need to get into it.
The problem is not in the method of the sound.
We hope that you haven't misunderstood the graph - it is like - (these figures are not accurate, but they should give the right impression) on the first day the average time of the echo was 15 seconds, the second day 14.95 seconds, the third day 14.87, fourth day 14.8, fifth day 14.7 et cetera until on day 13 it is 13.1 and on day 14. it is 13.0 and on day 15. it is again 15 seconds.
It has quite a down-to-earth answer, really. Come on, you can guess it.
Is it that, the echo has this range, and after it has touched all the values, it comes back to its first value.
I know its a foolish answer, but a guess.
You may be on to something, Maddie. Pitch and range of sound might hold the answer. When the echo reaches a certain range, the human ear can not longer detect it. But if the pitch and range has not really changed, he has grown accustomed to it, then when it would seem to pass out of his hearing range, it comes back to normal? Am I making any kind of sense here? :lol:
Okay until Tal replies, I'll ask one.
How to cut a circular cake into 8 equal pieces?
Three full diameter cuts, spaced equally?
I dont think so.
eat all but 8 crumbs? :)
he he he...good idea :nod:
BTW, it is an interview question. :D
divide it into four equal pieces, than slice the cake in half. :D