Benzine
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| posted on 22/1/09 at 01:59 PM |
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
you've been watching 'Alien' haven't you 
Dougal! We are not watching Aliens!
Bishops love sci-fi!
The mental gymnastics a landlord will employ to justify immoral actions is clinically fascinating. Just because something is legal doesn't make
it moral.
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Rosco
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| posted on 22/1/09 at 02:07 PM |
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Me thinks there are too many techy types on this forum - including me. But I shall attempt to switch off that side of my brain for a moment and focus
on this being a riddle not a scientific problem.
Perhaps if "Tree Falls" is the name of a place the answer would be no.
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02GF74
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| posted on 22/1/09 at 02:36 PM |
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
There are some in the fields of research that think that the universe would not exist if not observed.
How would we know if we couldn't see it?
It is like the laws of physiscs - are they something fundamental or exist only because we observe their effect, come up with a theory then prove or
displrove.
and what about numbers - again something fundamental to the fabric of everything or something again we observe and can theroise about?
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scudderfish
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| posted on 22/1/09 at 03:56 PM |
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How Long is a bay in Vietnam.
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JoelP
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| posted on 22/1/09 at 07:08 PM |
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it really depends if you define a sound as 'vibration of air molecules' or as 'a human's perception of air molecules
vibrating'. If the former, than the falling tree does indeed make a sound. If the latter, then it doesnt (as no human percieved it).
Like the colour red is only red if observed, otherwise its just another batch of EM radiation and some given frequency.
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