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So I read these questions in a magazine, and if you people think you can answer any of them, post your thought or answers here.

If you baked cookies in zero gravity, would they be spheres?

If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a mime, does he make a sound?

What's the technical difference between a pond and a lake?

Did the inventor of Rocky Mountain Oysters believe you are what you eat?

If you put on two left shoes and start walking down a mountain, will you arrive at the top?

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So I read these questions in a magazine, and if you people think you can answer any of them, post your thought or answers here.

If you baked cookies in zero gravity, would they be spheres?

If you put on two left shoes and start walking down a mountain, will you arrive at the top?

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They'd be whatever shape you made them before baking. Cookie dough is sticky.

And no, you'd just do your feet in.

What's the technical difference between a pond and a lake?

According to the state of Michigan a lake is a body of water of 50 acres or more, anything less is a pond. I'm sure other places define it differently.

So I read these questions in a magazine, and if you people think you can answer any of them, post your thought or answers here.

If you baked cookies in zero gravity, would they be spheres?

If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a mime, does he make a sound?

What's the technical difference between a pond and a lake?

Did the inventor of Rocky Mountain Oysters believe you are what you eat?

If you put on two left shoes and start walking down a mountain, will you arrive at the top?

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No.
Yes.
Lakes have tides.
No.
No.

Q: Is faith a definite answer?

No.
Yes.
Lakes have tides.
No.
No.

Wouldn't a pond technically have a tide, albeit ridiculously small?

Wouldn't a pond technically have a tide, albeit ridiculously small?

Lakes have visible tides then.

Q: Without asking how can there be a question?

Wouldn't a pond technically have a tide, albeit ridiculously small?

Only when you play God and toss in a rock.

You know you do..
You heathen monster.

So I read these questions in a magazine, and if you people think you can answer any of them, post your thought or answers here.

If you baked cookies in zero gravity, would they be spheres?

If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a mime, does he make a sound?

What's the technical difference between a pond and a lake?

Did the inventor of Rocky Mountain Oysters believe you are what you eat?

If you put on two left shoes and start walking down a mountain, will you arrive at the top?

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1. Maybe?
2. No, he's dead.
3. A pond has sunlight reaching the bottom.
4. :confused:
5. :confused:

A pond is shallow enough that sunlight can reach the bottom. There are 5 foot wide bodies of water that are 100 feet deep, and are therefor lakes.

Also, I don't know about you, but I ball my cookies up, and they always end up as flat. So they would be spheres when they are done in zero gravity.

Can somebody tell me what purple sounds like?

Also, I don't know about you, but I ball my cookies up, and they always end up as flat. So they would be spheres when they are done in zero gravity.Depends on you & the amount of cookie dough. Assuming you're not baking edible satellites, the the mass of the cookies are insufficient to overcome the friction of the dough. As such, in a 0G environment the shape of the cookies depends entirely on how badly you suck at implementing your cookie design.

Depends on you & the amount of cookie dough. Assuming you're not baking edible satellites, the the mass of the cookies are insufficient to overcome the friction of the dough. As such, in a 0G environment the shape of the cookies depends entirely on how badly you suck at implementing your cookie design.

Mine are like, an inch and a half in diameter. So why aren't they balls when they come out?

I wonder if in zero g you could make 3d pretzels?

Depends on you & the amount of cookie dough. Assuming you're not baking edible satellites, the the mass of the cookies are insufficient to overcome the friction of the dough. As such, in a 0G environment the shape of the cookies depends entirely on how badly you suck at implementing your cookie design.

Assuming cookie-spheres aren't the properly implemented cookie shape.

Can somebody tell me what purple sounds like?

A deep thrum, like being underwater and having a large ship pass over you, you have to be quite deep down but it's worth it.

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

Why do we park on a driveway, drive on a parkway, and pay tolls on a freeway?

What is the speed of gravity?

What is the greatest lie ever told?

Mine are like, an inch and a half in diameter. So why aren't they balls when they come out?I assume (but I may be partially or wholly wrong) you've failed to anticipate 3, possibly more, subtle factors working against you:
1. You suck at implementing the desired design.
2. You've failed to anticipate the processes at work in the dough during baking. I imagine a great many small events may impact their final form during the process, not the least of which is evaporation.
3. You're operating under the misapprehension that you're baking cookies in a 0G environment, when you're actually doing it in a 1G environment.

However, fear not. Practice, and a thorough understanding of both your environment and the cookie production process, may yet enable you to overcome your difficulties. Best of luck.Assuming cookie-spheres aren't the properly implemented cookie shape.What? No, no. I said the result would depend on the producers ability to implement the desired design. Of course, I disregarded minor imperfections that might result from minor, unpredictable forces or events, such as a raisin popping during the baking phase. Mostly because although it should be at least theoretically possible to anticipate and counteract such events, I don't really think it'd be worth the bother.

If you baked cookies in zero gravity, would they be spheres?

If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a mime, does he make a sound?

What's the technical difference between a pond and a lake?

Did the inventor of Rocky Mountain Oysters believe you are what you eat?

If you put on two left shoes and start walking down a mountain, will you arrive at the top?

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yes, yes (unless he dies first), light reaches the bottom of a pond, it's possible, and no.

What is the speed of gravity?

Depending on the mass of the body (I'm not talking about a person, I'm talking about a satellite, a planet, ect.) it varies. Let's also assume you're talking about acceleration because gravity is simply a force in which an object attracts another object, it would be 9.8 meters per second per second on Earth.

Also, for your amusement we have:
What clings to you?
Bear it - you cannot.
Accept it - you cannot.
But hidden - it is from you.
Recite its name.

We have another one too!
Though equally it exists before everyone's eyes,grasp it not one person can.
Tell me—what is it?

I assume (but I may be partially or wholly wrong) you've failed to anticipate 3, possibly more, subtle factors working against you:
1. You suck at implementing the desired design.
2. You've failed to anticipate the processes at work in the dough during baking. I imagine a great many small events may impact their final form during the process, not the least of which is evaporation.
3. You're operating under the misapprehension that you're baking cookies in a 0G environment, when you're actually doing it in a 1G environment.


1. Probably true. I usually just take a handful, eat it, take a wad of cookie dough, roll it around a bit, and throw it on the pan.
2. That's entirely possible, but what if they weren't cooking in a pan, and instead, were floating around the center of the oven?
3. No, the question said 0G.

What about this widely-accepted, but contradictory statement:



"There are no absolutes - what you think is right might not be right for me."



Isn't that an absolute statement in itself?

What is the speed of gravity?

Depends on the object and realitivity to the ground and it's own gravitational pull.

What is the greatest lie ever told?

Of course I put the condom on! :D

Depending on the mass of the body (I'm not talking about a person, I'm talking about a satellite, a planet, ect.) it varies. Let's also assume you're talking about acceleration because gravity is simply a force in which an object attracts another object, it would be 9.8 meters per second per second on Earth.

Clever.

Also, for your amusement we have:
What clings to you?
Bear it - you cannot.
Accept it - you cannot.
But hidden - it is from you.
Recite its name.

We have another one too!
Though equally it exists before everyone's eyes,grasp it not one person can.
Tell me—what is it?

I'm confident I don't know the answer to the first, I'll throw in a couple guesses: air or gravity.

The second one is truth, I'm fairly certain of it.

Of course I put the condom on! :D


That's a rather obvious lie, right up there with 'No Mommy, I didn't take the cookie from the cookie jar.' :p


Guess again. It's a tad more abstract is all I can say.

What about this widely-accepted, but contradictory statement:



"There are no absolutes - what you think is right might not be right for me."



Isn't that an absolute statement in itself?

This makes my brain hurt more than that GIF image showing what the 7th dimension would look like.

Clever.
Thank you!


I'm confident I don't know the answer to the first, I'll throw in a couple guesses: air or gravity.

The second one is truth, I'm fairly certain of it.

As for the first, way off.
As for the second, you're closer than with the first, but still wrong. Good guess though, never heard that answer before!

As for the first, way off.
As for the second, you're closer than with the first, but still wrong. Good guess though, never heard that answer before!

Hah!

I've always been the type that's better at asking the questions than answering. Oh well.

2. That's entirely possible, but what if they weren't cooking in a pan, and instead, were floating around the center of the oven?Minor imperfections might still arise. Uneven heating might cause cracks, for example.3. No, the question said 0G.You said the cookies you've baked always flattened out during baking. Given the phenomena you described and a combination of your join date and postcount, I deduced you've never actually baked a cookie in 0G. The conclusion is based on circumstantial evidence, however, and could be wrong.

Assuming, for argument's sake, that I am wrong and you the phenomena you described happened while you were baking cookies in a 0G environment, the solution to your problem is to prevent objects and/or actors from exerting pressure on the cookies after you're done implementing your cookie design. Also, you may want to make sure no invisible gremlins are around. Those nasty little devils are infamous for deforming cookies when you least expect it.

Whew! Now after all that explaning, I think I deserve a cookie, right? Feed Me Seymour!

Hah!

I've always been the type that's better at asking the questions than answering. Oh well.

I am too, it's easier when you have the answer though! lol. My cousin though is a pro at answering them (probably has something to do with me constantly asking her riddles!).

If you're interested in the answers, feel free to TG me, I don't want to spoil it for anyone reading this by posting them on the thread.

Here's a real skull-scratcher: what's worse than the banshee wail of a bagpipe playing Amazing Grace?

Can somebody tell me what purple sounds like?

I know what purple tastes like. :D But I can't say that purple has ever spoken to me, no...

Here's a real skull-scratcher: what's worse than the banshee wail of a bagpipe playing Amazing Grace?

2

What is the speed of gravity?

What is the greatest lie ever told?
1) 3e8 m/s. This is actually well known, and found out by Albert Einstein.

2) Iraq is not about the oil.

Also, for your amusement we have:
What clings to you?
Bear it - you cannot.
Accept it - you cannot.
But hidden - it is from you.
Recite its name.

Nothing?


We have another one too!
Though equally it exists before everyone's eyes,grasp it not one person can.
Tell me—what is it?

Time?

If you go on a vacation in a space ship traveling faster than light, forget your suitcase and turn around and go back, arriving before you left and remind yourself not to forget your suitcase, what will happen?

Will you forget your suitcase anyway?

Will your suitcase have been in the spaceship all along, leaving you with an odd sense of deja vu?

Will you remember the suitcase, thus causing a temporal paradox that will destroy the universe?

Will the weird looking guy with orange hair and a blue jumpsuit from that internet video show up and kick you in the nuts?

Will your suitcase be filled with grape jelly?

If you go on a vacation in a space ship traveling faster than light, forget your suitcase and turn around and go back, arriving before you left and remind yourself not to forget your suitcase, what will happen?

Will you forget your suitcase anyway?

Will your suitcase have been in the spaceship all along, leaving you with an odd sense of deja vu?

Will you remember the suitcase, thus causing a temporal paradox that will destroy the universe?

Will the weird looking guy with orange hair and a blue jumpsuit from that internet video show up and kick you in the nuts?

Will your suitcase be filled with grape jelly?

Oddly enough, i *think* i've got answers to a few of those. It will invariably swing into a different persuasion of thread if i do, though *caveat*

hmmm...

maybe
Would be an interesting experiment...
Pond: mudhole in backyard Lake: mudhole in multiple backyards
dunno
if you made it anywhere you would make it there in a great deal of pain...

According to the state of Michigan a lake is a body of water of 50 acres or more, anything less is a pond. I'm sure other places define it differently.

Another hurray for the best state! But do you live in heaven, or are you one of the troll's living under the bridge... eh?

If you go on a vacation in a space ship traveling faster than light, forget your suitcase and turn around and go back, arriving before you left and remind yourself not to forget your suitcase, what will happen?It doesn't work like that.Will your suitcase be filled with grape jelly?Yes, which upon retrieving it will make you wish it had stayed forgotten about.

You see, the speed of light is a sucky time machine. It only affects time from your personal perspective. So, while you might have recalled the wobbly luggage a few hours after takeoff, your luggage would have been waiting for you for a rather significantly lengthier period of time, certainly enough for it to be in desperate need of a shower and a shave.

So if you ever find yourself in that situation, I suggest you instead call back to your point of origin, ask if they know anywhere you might find some fresh grape jelly, and warn them you might have accidentally let loose a new lifeform with severe issues of abandonment on their premises.

If you baked cookies in zero gravity, would they be spheres?

quite probably.

If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a mime, does he make a sound?

squish and crunch are sounds. even if i'm not there to hear them.

What's the technical difference between a pond and a lake?

lakes occur naturally.

Did the inventor of Rocky Mountain Oysters believe you are what you eat?

inventor?

If you put on two left shoes and start walking down a mountain, will you arrive at the top?

no, but you might arrive at the funny farm. unless you teleport.

=^^=
.../\...

It doesn't work like that.Yes, which upon retrieving it will make you wish it had stayed forgotten about.

You see, the speed of light is a sucky time machine. It only affects time from your personal perspective. So, while you might have recalled the wobbly luggage a few hours after takeoff, your luggage would have been waiting for you for a rather significantly lengthier period of time, certainly enough for it to be in desperate need of a shower and a shave.

So if you ever find yourself in that situation, I suggest you instead call back to your point of origin, ask if they know anywhere you might find some fresh grape jelly, and warn them you might have accidentally let loose a new lifeform with severe issues of abandonment on their premises.

That came out better than my version. :D

It doesn't work like that.Yes, which upon retrieving it will make you wish it had stayed forgotten about.

You see, the speed of light is a sucky time machine. It only affects time from your personal perspective. So, while you might have recalled the wobbly luggage a few hours after takeoff, your luggage would have been waiting for you for a rather significantly lengthier period of time, certainly enough for it to be in desperate need of a shower and a shave.

So if you ever find yourself in that situation, I suggest you instead call back to your point of origin, ask if they know anywhere you might find some fresh grape jelly, and warn them you might have accidentally let loose a new lifeform with severe issues of abandonment on their premises.

Hmm... angry sentient jelly. Fun! :)

Hmm... angry sentient jelly. Fun! :)

Tell Dave Barry - he needs to coin some more band names. *nods*

Tell Dave Barry - he needs to coin some more band names. *nods*

I'm pretty good at that too. :)

Nothing?



Time?

Sorry, wrong on both counts. Though the second is close in a manner of speaking.

I'm pretty good at that too. :)

I would think that as a natural consequence of your profession, coming up with some cool band names. :)

Where's the beef?

Do infidel slinkies walk UP stairs?

Do infidel slinkies walk UP stairs?No, but they do carry cute little AK-47's and claim up is the other direction :p

So I read these questions in a magazine, and if you people think you can answer any of them, post your thought or answers here.

If you baked cookies in zero gravity, would they be spheres?

If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a mime, does he make a sound?

What's the technical difference between a pond and a lake?

Did the inventor of Rocky Mountain Oysters believe you are what you eat?

If you put on two left shoes and start walking down a mountain, will you arrive at the top?

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1. The cookie dough would explode. (heck if I know what would really happen)
2. Alas, in absoute silence, the only thing the mime would do is ---> :eek:
3. Size?
4. No. Who would want to be bovine testicles?
5. No, and you'd be lucky to arrive at the bottom without injuring yourself. I'd possibly even pay to watch it.

And:

If cats always land on their feet and buttered bread always lands buttered-side down on the floor, what would happen if you stuck a buttered piece of bread to the back of a cat and tossed it out a two-story window?

If you baked cookies in zero gravity, would they be spheres?
No, they'd just keep whatever form they were put into.
If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a mime, does he make a sound?
Yes, *CRUNCH*
What's the technical difference between a pond and a lake?
It's based on the size.
Did the inventor of Rocky Mountain Oysters believe you are what you eat?
Probably.
If you put on two left shoes and start walking down a mountain, will you arrive at the top?
No, you'll just arrive at the bottom with a slightly achy right foot. Jesus Christ, come on...

If you put on two left shoes and start walking down a mountain, will you arrive at the top?


If the mountain was big enough it's possible, one leg is slightly longer than the other so unless you correct yourself you'll naturally walk in a huge circle.

If cats always land on their feet and buttered bread always lands buttered-side down on the floor, what would happen if you stuck a buttered piece of bread to the back of a cat and tossed it out a two-story window?

It depends on which way the toast is facing. :D

Another hurray for the best state! But do you live in heaven, or are you one of the troll's living under the bridge... eh?

I'm a troll, born and raised (from the Mt. Pleasant area) although I did live in the Soo for a while.

It depends on which way the toast is facing. :D

You caught that. Good. I was also wondering if anyone one would catch the "two-story window" aspect of it, which is different from a second-story window.

For the sake of the question one is supposed to assume that the buttered side is facing upwards when the toast is placed on the back of the cat and that the unfortunate feline is actually dropped from a second-story window. I was trying to conserve energy when I wrote it. My own that is.

If you baked cookies in zero gravity, would they be spheres? nope... unless you shape them into spheres.

If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a mime, does he make a sound? the real question... would anyone really care?

What's the technical difference between a pond and a lake? size and depth.

Did the inventor of Rocky Mountain Oysters believe you are what you eat? nope, and neither did the person who discovered that snails are edible... and the desperate man who looked at a cow and thought... "I think I'll just suck on these and see what happens..."

If you put on two left shoes and start walking down a mountain, will you arrive at the top? only if you really had no sense of direction... and didn't ask for assistance.

Can an orphan eat at a family restaurant?
Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
Can bald people get hairline fractures?
If there's a wheelchair bound comedian, is it still called stand up?

What's the technical difference between a pond and a lake?

lakes occur naturally.

The kettle ponds on Cape Cod were formed by glaciers. Last time I checked, those tended to not be man made.

Though equally it exists before everyone's eyes,grasp it not one person can.
Tell me—what is it?
I can think of at least two correct answers for this. Three. No, four.

I wonder if in zero g you could make 3d pretzels?... dunno about you, but my pretzels are 3d... they are definately not 2d...

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

Why do we park on a driveway, drive on a parkway, and pay tolls on a freeway?

Why do we call them Buildings when they are done building em?

Why is 'ON' and 'OFF' written on a light switch?

Why do we get On a plane, yet we end up inside the plane?

Why do Shipments go by cars, and Cargo goes by ships?

Why is it that it's one bra but a pair of pants?

What is the greatest lie ever told? "Trust me!"

Also, for your amusement we have:
What clings to you?
Bear it - you cannot.
Accept it - you cannot.
But hidden - it is from you.
Recite its name.
Your past mistakes
We have another one too!
Though equally it exists before everyone's eyes,grasp it not one person can.
Tell me—what is it?smoke.

That's a rather obvious lie, right up there with 'No Mommy, I didn't take the cookie from the cookie jar.' :p
but an Obvious Lie can still be the Greatest Lie.
Do infidel slinkies walk UP stairs? Nope, they go down... then blow up.

Your past mistakes
smoke.

Um, not quite. You're closer on the first one than anything I've seen before without being right and the second is way off.

You caught that. Good. I was also wondering if anyone one would catch the "two-story window" aspect of it, which is different from a second-story window.

For the sake of the question one is supposed to assume that the buttered side is facing upwards when the toast is placed on the back of the cat and that the unfortunate feline is actually dropped from a second-story window. I was trying to conserve energy when I wrote it. My own that is.

Seeing as I've seen the Mythbusters episode where they drop toast to see which side lands up more often, I say the cat will land on it's feet. If you go with the information you provided however, it will land on it's side.