Your impossible questions?

[Niccolo]

-Snip-

Yeah, pretty much right. The really messed up thing is, nothing with mass can ever travel at the speed of light. You'd basically have an object with an infinite amount of kinetic energy colliding with an infinite amount of inertia. Regardless both objects, regardless of which one is moving as that could actually be considered relative, would both have to contain an infinite amount of energy. So, I dunno, the universe collapses, it's not really physically possible anyway. I hope.

Wow, did I just write all that? Holy crap I hope this is the longest post I ever put on Escapist. That's what happens when a physics major gets very bored. But really there's only law of physics you have to remember.

The 1st law of physics: Never under any circumstance piss off a physicist with a crowbar.

Hunh, so I got that mostly right? Sweet. Nice to know my brain's not too rusty.

That whole "Unstoppable force/immovable object" question has always seriously bugged me. The answer was always right there but I never heard anyone get it.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Where is the (EFF)ing remote!!?

 

[icame]

If Final fantasy 8 and 13 touched eachother would it create a singularity of bad game design?

 

[C95J]

Ah I have a good one.
Walk from one side of your room to the other. You would agree that in order to get across your room you first have to walk half that distance. However, in order to get to half that distance you would first have to walk a quarter of the distance of your room. But to get to that quarter you would have to walk an eighth. And to walk that eighth you would first have to walk a sixteenth. The point is that to travel a distance you have to first move half that distance, and half of the half, and half of that half, ect. Since there are an infinite amount of fractions because there is an infinite amount of numbers. This means that there is an infinite amount of halves you must travel to get to the other side of your room!
Tell me. How is it that you are able to walk across your room if you have to travel an infinite amount of halfway points? Don't just say by moving one leg because this applies to all movement of anything.

PS I didn't come up with this. Some philosopher who's name I can't remember did. Our logic teacher gave us this rant in class the other day and no one could come up with an answer. That is because it's a paradox.

this reminds me of a similar one I randomly thought of myself one day. If something, say a ball is falling towards the ground it has to go half that distance, and then half that distance again and so on. With this logic in mind, doesn't that mean it could never reach the floor??

I have never been able to think of the answer to this myself, and I don't think I ever will. It's sort of one of those brain killer things that defy the laws of everything if you know what I mean.

 

[DonMartin]

Will your answer to this question be no?

 

[Queen Michael]

Will your answer to this question be no?

I was going to answer this one with a plain "Yes" or "No", but then when I tried to, it was impossible for me to come up with a good reply!

 

[Amphoteric]

Why are unicorns hollow?

 

[That's Funny]

When you die, where does your mind go?

And it's not as simple as you might think.

 

[CheesusCrust]

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

 

[Bloodstain]

Who is phone? (Inside joke between a bunch of blokes I know on skype.)

It's a well known 4chan meme. Just like my OT-question:

Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

 

[rokkolpo]

Where the hell are the aliens?

in space.

 

[No_Remainders]

Does this all really exist?

 

[Broken Boy]

Your trapped in a room with Justin Beiber, Miley Cirus, both are having a karaoke contest, and you have only one bullet in your revolver. What to do?

Turn gun on self. At least I would! ; )

 

[EatPieYes]

Will your answer to this question be no?

Why should I tell you?

That's not an answer.

OnT: Why do you get hiccups?

 

[SalamanderJoe]

Is it possible to slam a revolving door?

If something was in it's way, it would slam correct?

Yes. Yes it would.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

There are three incredibly quick and agile, almost too much for the human eye, walking piranhas that can stop their prey's movement with a venomous bite. Consequently, and ironically, they are very, very slow when eating. They take hours upon hours, upon hours to do so.

You and your significant other, the love of your life, have managed to escape to a basement in some nondescript building. The piranhas are hard at work gnawing at the door.

You both are waiting for the inevitable to happen in the following seconds. Also, you have one firearm with but one bullet and your significant other is a hardcore catholic and does not believe in suicide and has just told you that he/she won't do it. No matter what.

You have little time left.

What do you do?

Shoot my wife for being catholic. Why didnt she tell me?! THIS WHOLE MARRIAGE WAS A MISTAKE.

On a serious note i would line up our heads and pull a double headshot. If i really had to. If the end was honestly inevitible. It would be horrible but that makes the most sense.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Prove that we're not living in the Matrix.

If you do, you'll help me with Philosophy.

If you don't, I look like a smartarse.

Find a child, convince them they can fly. According to the matrix if you believe you can do something you can do it. Or if you believe in the matrix. A simple trick would be to convince a child or someone of an equelly trusting nature the matrix is real and that they can do anything with the knowlage nothing is real. They cannot. We are not in the matrix.

EDIT: Edited from an accidental double post to be relevent.

 

[flying_whimsy]

Given an ill-defined multiverse where everything happens, what possible grounds could morality have outside of mutually beneficial social conduct?

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Prove that we're not living in the Matrix.

If you do, you'll help me with Philosophy.

If you don't, I look like a smartarse.

Find a child, convince them they can fly. According to the matrix if you believe you can do something you can do it. Or if you believe in the matrix. A simple trick would be to convince a child or someone of an equelly trusting nature the matrix is real and that they can do anything with the knowlage nothing is real. They cannot. We are not in the matrix.

EDIT: Edited from an accidental double post to be relevent.

Nice, although I actually brought that up. What I should of said is a 'computer generated world', as opposed to The Matrix. It was a bit unfair.

I offer this rebuttle. If our brains percieve things the same as in real life than in this computer is their really a difference?

 

[Snake Plissken]

Will your answer to this question be no?

Probably not.