Re: Off topic response to an off topic message--> was:Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers

[Alicia Carla Longstreet <carla@ici.net>]

Spaceman Spiff wrote:
> 
> Craig Franck wrote:
> > >
> > >Question #2: How does the presence or absence of an observer affect the
> > >falling tree?
> > >Answer: It doesn't make a bit of difference.
> >
> > What if it hits the observer?

That doesn't have much of an impact on the tree, only the stupid
observer.  Of course, according to the Hiesenberg Uncertantity
Principal, the observer either alters the location of the tree or alters
the motion of the tree, depending on whether the observer is measuring
the speed of the tree or determining its location.
 
> ROFL!!
> 
> > When a tree falls in the woods and crushes a deaf-mute, is there a sound?

No. Sound is a cranial occurance.  The motion of the tree produces
compressions and refactions in the atmosphere, it requires and ear and a
certain minium congnitive ability to convert the compressions and
rarefactions into sound.  A deaf mute does not have the requisite ear. 
Of course, almost any animal could be present to make the needed
conversion.
 
> *GISH*

Tha is my Aunts favorite bid at bridge.
 
> > And in the same vein, what must the initial velocity of a cow being flung
> > from a catapult be in order to achieve orbit?
 
> 6.92 miles per sec.
> Now what is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?

The cow would not be able to acheive orbit, but you would have an
interesting phenomona, a meteorite rising from the Earth's surface.  Not
to mention, a very well done roast, somewhere.

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