which is faster?

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Date: 8/30/97 12:35 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: PKardinal

::smirks::

Then G... would you be callin Dae a chicken?

Dae? You gonna take that?

~Phil

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Date: 8/30/97 4:43 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: Perrinis


::reads all the postings here and his head explodes::

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Date: 8/30/97 4:43 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: Perrinis

::and the tree doesn't make a sound if no one can hear it::

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Date: 8/30/97 5:22 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: Jakvaltrds


::mutters::
You guys *quack* me up a simple query by a new duelist turns into a philosophical debate!
Sheesh ::grins:: I wonder when Ecore will add a 10 page disortation on the origin of the egg?

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Date: 8/30/97 6:38 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: PKardinal

::the tree does make a sound... Sound is vibration, and if there is a tree in a forest, then that means that there is a means of transporting that vibration... Simple Physics ::

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Date: 8/30/97 7:24 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: Khrysta102



Wrong Phil..... the *sound* is the vibration of the air waves against the ear drum. If there are no ear drums around, then there is no sound..... simple physics II ::smiles::

Khrys

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Date: 8/30/97 8:33 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: SGlowacki1

Depends if any furry little forest creatures are there....I'm sure if there are any, they will sense the vibrations, thus qualifying them as sound. No fair restricting hearing to humans...

Of course...when you say "no one's around", you might be including the furry little forest creatures, but it probably doesn't....

By the way, the chicken crossed the road before the egg. After all, how can an egg walk?

-Steve

::belts out laughing hysterically::

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Date: 8/30/97 9:32 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: Foxxgrrl


::pens quickly, laughing too hard to write very legibly::
A tree fell in the forest, and a man didn't hear it.
He's dead now.

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Date: 8/30/97 10:16 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: KayneRune


Physics 101 with R.n. Rune.....

Alright, I'm Nurse Rune, and I'll be your Physics teacher for today. Class, please take out your notebooks and let's get started....

"If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody's there to hear it, does it actually make a sound?"-Anonymous

I'm pretty sure the question was "If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody's there to hear it, does it actually make a sound?". Am I right class? Good. Let's analyze this.

First, a tree falls. Normally, a sound would occur, but, due to some cosmic intervention, this may be an exception to the rule.

Second, it's in the forest. Now, what grows in the forest? Plants! Now if I'm not mistaken, plants are alive; therefore, plants are "somebody". Obviously, the person who stated this question was not thinking clearly. I mean, if "nobody"s there to hear it, which includes plants, how could it fall it a forest? Food for thought.

Third, the question of if it physically makes a sound. The answer is yes. How could it not make a sound? Would the universal laws of the universe (nifty, eh?) bend in this unique instance?? I doubt it. Of course, there's always the slightest, slightest chance that it could...but I wouldn't bet on it.

On a sidenote to that, analyze this last phrase: "does it actually make a sound?". Think waaay back to your last english class and try to follow along with me. What does "it", in the sentence above, actually refer to? If I'm not mistaken (and I'm not), "it" refers to "the forest", as "the forest" is the last noun mentioned before the pronoun. So by looking at the sentence grammatically correctly, the question becomes this: "If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody's there to hear [the forest], does
[the forest] actually make a sound?". In my professional experience, I have *never* heard a forest make a sound. The words speak for themselves.

In finality, I find the question invalid because not only is it not stated correctly it does not give enough information to come to a viable conclusion.

Class dismissed.

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Date: 8/30/97 10:52 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: Perrinis


>>::the tree does make a sound... Sound is vibration, and if there is a tree in a forest, then that means that there is a means of transporting that vibration... Simple Physics ::<<
But what is sound, but something that we hear? Without ears, there is no definition of sound, and thus, no sound.

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Date: 8/30/97 10:54 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: Perrinis

>>::pens quickly, laughing too hard to write very legibly::
A tree fell in the forest, and a man didn't hear it.
He's dead now.<<

You never hear the one that get's you...

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: 8/31/97 3:22 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: GnrtDrgoon



::busting a gut laughing::
Okay okay okay..If a tree falls in a half glass, does it move faster than a slashing egg covered in rubber?

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Date: 8/31/97 10:26 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: Foxxgrrl

::feels compelled to add more wisdom::
In the proverbial glass problem, there are four kinds of people.
Person 1-The glass is half full.
Person 2-The glass is half empty.
Person 3-The glass is half full...no, wait, half empty....no, full!..No, on second thought, half empty...
Person 4-Hey! I ordered a cheeseburger.
:;grins::

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Date: 8/31/97 10:34 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: Alyxz


DOn't forget number 5: ::drinks the water:: empty.

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Date: 8/31/97 5:59 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: BuffyWntrs


::Puts on a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, twists her hair up into a bun, scribbles a note::

Actually, for a forest to survive, it has to have a ecosystem of sorts. This includes everything from bugs, to undergrowth, to water, to animals, to sunlight, etc, etc. For a forest to be living, there has to be things living in it. Like, duh. So living things that would have to be in the forest would have to hear the sound. Vibration on the ear drums or not, the sound would be heard.
Now, if yer talking about a person hearing the sound... Welp, they can't hear it if they're not there, can they? This is a silly question.

~ Nobody in particular.