it is for real

you are retarded

the answer is not 100

Is there momentum in cooling in Newton's universe?

The black coffee cools at a faster rate. That is not the same thing as reaching room temperature first. In your cold coffee example, the coffee with cold coffee added will reach room temp first. At some point the unchanged coffee will reach the starting temperature of the cooled coffee; that coffee will have since gotten colder. The rate differential will be much smaller at this point; the cooled coffee will reach room temp sooner. Unless it is affected by outside forces like the insulative properties of cream...

Quite obviously, your retarded.

Perfect. I dared to hope, perchance DREAM, it would be you.

And just because I'm insecure, I'm going to just go ahead and say "Of course the answer isn't 100 minutes, because I'm not retarded for real" even though I hinted at it strongly before.

Wang

aye, there's the rube

you don't know if the odd marble is heavier or lighter, you may have tossed the set with the odd one by assuming it is heavier.

I rarely get to showcase any real smarts so here we go. Answer to the marble question.

Lets start with the easy one.

if 1,2,3,4 = 5,6,7,8 we know the odd one is in 9,10,11,12
we measure 1,9 vs 10,11
if these are = we know 12 is odd do a measure to find out if heavy or light
if not equal measure 10 vs 11
if 10 = 11 then 9 is odd. use common sense from the last measure to know if it's heavy or light
if 10 < 11 and 1,9 >10,11 then 10 is light
if 10 > 11 and 1,9 >10,11 then 11 is light

if 10 <11 and 1,9 <10,11 then 11 heavy
if 10 >11 and 1,9 <10,11 then 10 heavy

if 1,2,3,4 not equal to 5,6,7,8
we measure 1,2,5 vs 3,6,9
now if these are equal we measure 7 vs 8
if 7 and 8 are equal then 4 is odd one out. if 1,2,3,4 was heavier then obviously 4 is heavy otherwise it is light

if 1,2,5 > 3,6,9 and 1,2,3,4 > 5,6,7,8
measure 1vs2
if 1=2 then 6 is light
if 1>2 then 1 is heavy
if 1<2 then 2 is heavy
if 1,2,5 > 3,6,9 and 1,2,3,4 < 5,6,7,8
measure 3 vs 9
if 3 = 9 then 5 is heavy
if 3<9 then 3 is light
based on what we saw, impossible for 3>9

if 1,2,5 < 3,6,9 and 1,2,3,4 > 5,6,7,8
measure 3 vs 9
if 3=9 then 5 is light
impossible for 3<9
if 3>9 then 3 is heavy

if 1,2,5 < 3,6,9 and 1,2,3,4 < 5,6,7,8
measure 1vs2
if 1=2 then 6 is heavy
if 1<2 then 1 is light
if 1>2 then 2 is light




a table would be much easier to read but whatever

here's a dumb riddle.

what key won't open any door?

Piano key?

Church key?

Answer key?

C-minor

I think I win. If 5 different cats are eating five different mice, and it takes them 5 minutes to eat them, then it takes 5 minutes for each cat to eat their mouse, so no matter how many cats you have, it takes them 5 minutes.

Right? I might be more retarded than wang, but it's a close call.

those are all correct, but it's one of those dumb popsicle riddles. the answer is a donkey

you're in a room with no doors & no windows. just four walls, ceiling, and floor. all you have is a table and a mirror. how do you get out?

Riddle: "Why was 6 afraid of 7." (hint: not what you think!)

Look in the mirror, take what you just saw, saw the table in half, two halves make a (w)hole, climb out through the hole. I learned that one in third grade and it sucked just as bad then.

You mean it's not because 7 was a robot?

'Cause Seven Eight Nine

No, that's right.

Knock Knock
Who's there?
A robot

Oh, shit!



I'm in love with these "Robot jokes for robots, by robots."

hey coffee boys,

does this apply/help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_heat

I sincerely hope this isn't the answer because I spent about 35 seconds trying to figure this one out. He should have just cracked the mirror and slit his wrists.

I think it would still be 5 minutes because it would take each cat 5 minutes to eat his respectful mouse. Therefore, as long as #cats=#mice, the actual # is irrelevent.

My answer is 5 minutes.

I doubt the mice would be all that restpectful, while getting munched on....

(smiley face, smiley face)

Wang

But what if there were a million cats and a million mice? Then what?

Um, 5 minutes?

Here's one:

It takes 1 carpenter 7 days to build a house, but it takes 7 carpenters 3 days to build a house.

Now it also takes 1 ship 7 days to sail across an ocean. How many days would it take 7 ships to sail across an ocean?

but what if the mice had laser eyes?


7 days

Ok, then how about a BILLION cats and a BILLION mice?

What about a million ships with a hundred cats and mice total?

What about an infinite number of mice, and infinity^infinity number of cats?

Whoa.

I just blew your MIND

Wang

right. my mind. you beast.

penis?

Well.

Infinity^infinity is infinity. Therefore, it would still be 5 minutes. QED

I think there's a were "echelon" thing that might be going on here, but I made that word up, so I'm almost surely wrong....

Wang

PS- Hey, seriously, there's a thing about infinity vs. infinity^infinity being different, right? Like, a real actual thing? I'm not crazy, am I?

No. Infinity plus anything is still infinity. And infinity times anything is still infinity. Therefore, infinity^infinity=infinity. QED

What about infinity^infinity plus eleventy brazillian cats and mice?

How long would it take then?

I wouldn't be too sure about that...

Mostly because I'm compltely unsure about that.

But, seriously, I thought there was something math-style (Rod? Mr. Reynolds?) that held there were different degrees of infinity.

Wang

There are different degrees of infinity. For example, how many counting (natural) numbers are there? 1,2,3,4.... etc. There are infinity.

But, how many real numbers are there. 1, 1.1, 1.2..... 5.64335..... 1000000874943.484844 etc. There are infinity of them, but clearly this infinity is a lot bigger than the one before.

One way to determine how infinity something is is to "map" it to the natural numbers. In other words, if you can count something, or take every thing and label it with a counting number, then the infinity is the same infinity as the infinity of the natural numbers.

This concept is called Cardinality.

(score!!)

I saw that LLY was on it, and I got caught in a Wikipedia vortex.

Here's where I ended up. Graham's number: It is massive, like huge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number

You can't even write the thing in scientific notation, because "because even the digits in the exponent would exceed the number of particles in the visible universe".

It's not even important what purpose this number serves, it's that big!

And my name isn't even Rod Reynolds. Who knew?

Was this funny to anyone else? When I read it I started laughing my ass off, but then I looked at it again, and wasn't sure if I should have laughed or not.




That was pretty damn funny too, lol.


Here's a riddle I read in a penguin chocolate thing one time (those of you from England know what I'm talking about):

What kind of cheese is made backwards?

edam

well that was hard. ISAPR

My head asplode.

(Yes I am an idiot.)

you're in a room with 3 switches that light up 3 lights in an adjacent room that you can't see. Once you left the room with the switches you can no longer go back in it. Your job is to determine which switch lights up which bulb . How?

this was in DN's blog awhile back

FINE

you're at heaven's gate, which is actually a room with 2 identical doors ,1 goes to hell and 1 goes to heaven, and 2 identical bouncers guard the doors. 1 is the devil and he always lies and 1 is st-peter and he always tell the truth. You can only ask 1 question to 1 of them, but you don't know if if the door the devil/st-peter is standing in front of is heaven or hell, but they know which door is behind them. What is your 1 question to 1 of them?

I still don't know the answer, and don't feel like searching. So hopefully some people still guess at this one, so I can learn the answer.

you ask what door will the other guy say is the correct door.

if you are talking to the st.peter, his answer would be the other door.

if you are talking to the devil, his answer would be the door behind me.

I like riddles but not couches

Methinks that you turn on a switch, wait ten minutes, then turn on a different switch. Go see which one is hot, and which one is on. There is your answer?

I'm Wang/Beans drunk right now, so I may be retarded.

That's genious. I think you may be right.

I never got confirmation on the 5 mice in 5 minutes riddle, but I think I was correct there.

This means two for me! I guess I'm not Retarded after all!