What must be broken before it can be used?
31st August 2012
Notes: 21
You’re tracking a man’s footprints through a snowy path. You keep following them through an empty field, clear of trees or anything else for acres around. Suddenly, in the middle of this vast emptiness, the footprints just stop. You know that if the man walked backwards to retrace his steps, you would have run into him along the way. Where is the man?
He is standing right in front of you. Occam’s Razor.
Thanks for the submission antinegationism
A woman moves into an especially large building, which she bought for quite a large sum of money upon its completion. One day, she finds that her new very large house has the following remarkable property: if she starts with her body pressed against any of her house’s walls then walks one mile south, one mile east, and one mile north, she will always end up back at the same exact spot on the same exact wall from which she started her trek; all without ever leaving the house. Ignoring things like furniture, how many square miles of floor space does her house have?
Given:
It is true that house has more than .01 square miles of floor space.
It is true that her house has less than 100 square miles of floor space.
It is true that your answer doesn’t have to be accurate to more than two decimal places.
For the Math Handicapped:
Submission by: antinegationism
You’re tracking a man’s footprints through a snowy path. You keep following them through an empty field, clear of trees or anything else for acres around. Suddenly, in the middle of this vast emptiness, the footprints just stop. You know that if the man walked backwards to retrace his steps, you would have run into him along the way. Where is the man?
Two men walk into a bar and order drinks. They both order and receive identical beverages. Several hours later, as they rose to leave the bar, one of the men collapses and dies.
Why did the one man die and not the other?
The ice cubes were poisoned. The man who lived drank his beverage immediately while the man who collapsed and died waited a time before drinking his beverage. In the time he waited, the ice cubes melted some which allowed the poison to be let into the beverage and kill him.
Two men walk into a bar and order drinks. They both order and receive identical beverages. Several hours later, as they rose to leave the bar, one of the men collapses and dies.
Why did the one man die and not the other?
Everyone wants to go,
Yet everyone fears the journey.
All say I am good.
Here, I do not exist.
What am I?
Heaven
Everyone wants to go,
Yet everyone fears the journey.
All say I am good.
Here, I do not exist.
What am I?
What is the sum of all real numbers between 0.4 and -0.6? What is the sum of all real numbers between -0.5 and 0.5?
Submitted by anon
Destroyer of mountains, killer of kings,
I am the thing that destroys all things.
I pass by so slowly but I fly by so fast,
I can disappear without warning but I will always last.
What am I?
You can catch me but you cannot throw me.
What am I?
Correct answer: a cold/sickness of most sorts
Other good answers: a train/airplane, or a break.
You can catch me but you cannot throw me.
What am I?
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after, ends life and kills laughter.What is it?
Correct Answer: Darkness
Lots of other good potential answers too: carbon monoxide, silence… and ‘voldemorts nose’ apparently.
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after, ends life and kills laughter.
What is it?
I am in the past, never in the future.
I do not exist, but existed once.
I saw what you saw, and that is all I will ever see.What am I?
Correct Answer: a memory
Answer of the day: ‘my virginity’ by multiplethorgasms
