Post your impossible questions riddles jokes etc

[thenoblitt]

When did Schrodingers cat die?

(Sorry thread, I have loads of these)

are we talking about an actual cat, or the experiment, cause in the experiment the cat was thought to be half-dead half-alive never technically dead

 

[uguito-93]

This is an old riddle i found

Only one color but not one size
Stuck at the bottom yet easily flies
Present in sun but not in rain
Doing no harm, feeling no pain

i haven't met anyone who knows the answer yet

 

[thenoblitt]

Ahh I got one.

Can we find an alternative fuel to gasoline before we run out of it?

solar energy, wind energy, you can do some stuff to tons of fat that will turn it into fuel

 

[Feste the Jester]

what's in my pocket?

 

[thenoblitt]

This is an old riddle i found

Only one color but not one size
Stuck at the bottom yet easily flies
Present in sun but not in rain
Doing no harm, feeling no pain

i haven't met anyone who knows the answer yet

dirt? its easily kicked up and picked up by the wind, it turns to mud in the rain, it feels no pain cause its not a living thing, i guess it can do harm though if you eat it, but then it again its probably the bacteria and stuff on it

 

[grimsprice]

Ahh I got one.

Can we find an alternative fuel to gasoline before we run out of it?

Oh, yeah, we've "found" at least 3 that i can think of.

Will we use them before the bottom falls off the transportation market.... maybe...

 

[Ham_authority95]

You ask a man: "Did the chicken come before the egg?"

Then he answers with "I think the rooster came first."

What did he mean by this?

 

[Feste the Jester]

6. Observing that a = b

b + b = b

b can't be nonzero because if you subtract b from both sides you get b = 0. Then if b = 0 then a must also be zero because a = b. Then that leaves the problem full of holes like dividing 2b = b by b and dividing the whole problem early of by (a - b), because you can't divide by zero.

 

[thenoblitt]

You ask a man: "Did the chicken come before the egg?"

Then he answers with "I think the rooster came first."

What did he mean by this?

there is something clearly wrong with this man

 

[uguito-93]

huh i guess thats pretty reasonable but still wrong. Hint think of something less physical

 

[uguito-93]

This is an old riddle i found

Only one color but not one size
Stuck at the bottom yet easily flies
Present in sun but not in rain
Doing no harm, feeling no pain

i haven't met anyone who knows the answer yet

dirt? its easily kicked up and picked up by the wind, it turns to mud in the rain, it feels no pain cause its not a living thing, i guess it can do harm though if you eat it, but then it again its probably the bacteria and stuff on it

Huh sounds reasonable but still wrong.

 

[uguito-93]

Found another

Round like an apple
Deep like a cup
Yet all the kings horses cant pull it up

 

[thenoblitt]

Found another

Round like an apple
Deep like a cup
Yet all the kings horses cant pull it up

a well?

 

[Spoonius]

irresistible force, immovable object. Go!

The force deflects, but retains all of its energy.

Here's a riddle I found.

You hire a man to work for you for seven days. You have one bar of gold with which to pay him, segmented into seven sections. You must give him a piece of gold per day. If you can only make two breaks in the bar, how will you pay him?

My friend's boyfriend knocked this thing out in a heartbeat; when I heard the answer I was like "Ohhhh, it was so EASY!" But when someone can't solve a problem like this, it's because they affix limitations to themselves that aren't there. Which is interesting in and of itself.

Give him the bar each day, and then take it back. On the seventh day, let him keep it.

This is one I post every time I find a thread like this:

Four talented men sat down to play,
And played all night till break of day.
They played for cash and not for fun,
With separate score for every one.
When it came time to square accounts,
They all had made good fair amounts.
Not one has lost, but all have gained,
I challenge you, this to explain.

Buskers. All earned money, and lost none.

This one isn't too impossible, but it's something my math teacher told me that amused me.

There are two towns, Town A and Town B. People from Town A will always tell the truth, and people from Town B will always tell a lie. You are exactly in the middle between the two towns, and there is somebody there. What do you ask him to find out what town he's from?

ive got one

there are 2 guards, one that always lies, and one that tells the truth
one guard has a bag of gold and the other has a bag of feathers
you dont know which guard is which, nor do you know which bag has the gold
you are only allowed to ask one guard, one question
what question do you ask to get the bag of gold

i dont know the answer myself, lol, just taught id put it up

Ask him/them if he/they can hear you. He/They must answer, as you can't tell the truth or a lie without speaking. And the answer will be "yes" or "no".

If one were to ask and one were to hear but one stood to say and many stood to gain, who stands to lose?

I made that up a year ago, good luck getting it right

I'm guessing that you're referring to politicians. So my answer:

The public... XD

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

(An oldie but a goodie. I nevar get tired of it, one way or the other.)

Neither survives a good axing.

chicken or egg?

"Chicken" and "egg" are only linguistic nametags that English-speakers use in order to describe objects to which they refer. Therefor, the answer is:

Whichever noun was coined first.

 

[Estocavio]

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If one were to ask and one were to hear but one stood to say and many stood to gain, who stands to lose?

I made that up a year ago, good luck getting it right

I'm guessing that you're referring to politicians. So my answer:

The public... XD

Bravo! "If one stands to ask" is the Lower Class public; "And one were to hear" Refers to any politician who listens; "But one stood to say" Refers to the reason/s they cannot work in that persons favor; "And many stand to gain" Refers to anyone doing well for themselves, since society is build around them. And who stands to lose just refers to anyone who doesnt benefit.

I made this up while brainstorming hierarchy systems

 

[grimsprice]

Ahh I got one.

Can we find an alternative fuel to gasoline before we run out of it?

Oh, yeah, we've "found" at least 3 that i can think of.

Will we use them before the bottom falls off the transportation market.... maybe...

What are they?

Personally, i can't way to own a car powered by electrons. Thats going to be sweeeet. Iceland has hydrogen powered buses, and there's more frozen methane around the world than there is oil.

We have solutions in our pockets, but not our futures. Sad.

 

[grimsprice]

Hmm, I figured cars/basic transportation was going to be electronic based eventually. Soon the oil will dry up, and unless we have some sort of plan B, we're all goners. I did not know that about Iceland, I wonder how they run? I get this feeling that it's different somehow but also similar to a normal bus. I also wonder if it'll be a bad thing. When you say hydrogen, I think of bombs. Then I think of people blowing such vehicles up. :|

We can't win...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-mVR4F7tfY

You will realllllllly like this.

Its an episode of "nova". One of the premier science shows on TV. And its a very very very good watch.

 

[Spoonius]

When poured on cereal, what is milk?

A soup?
A beverage?
A broth?

A liquid.

A man without eyes saw pears on a tree
He did not take pears
He did not leave pears
how can that be?

Memories.

Anyway, riddle. "Use me well, I am Everybody. Scratch my back, I am Nobody." What am I?

A politician.

Here's a riddle I've come across quite often, not impossible but still quite fun:

There are 10 bags of gold coins but one of the bags contains fake coins that weigh differently to the real ones. How many times do you have to weigh your coins before you know which bags contain the fakes?."

Presuming that all bags and gold deposits are the same size, you don't. You just look for the bag that's twice as full as the others, keeping in mind that such a bag will be holding a contingent of both real and fake coins.

What's the difference between a duck?

A space.

A man wakes up, climbs up the stairs, turns on the light and shoots himself

WHY

He didn't want to underexpose the camera.

This is one i thought up ( dunno if its already done though ):
Your at a vending machine, each item is 50p, you put in £1 and then a 50p.
at the end of it you are left with no change and only two items. why?
(Surely with £1.50 you could of had 3?)

You put in $1 and recieve 50c change. You then insert the change.

slam an ordinary revolving door.

Against something other than the frame.

There is a room with no doors, no windows, nothing and a man is hung from the ceiling and a puddle of water is on the floor. How did he die?

Might be something to do with the underlined bit...

This is an old riddle i found

Only one color but not one size
Stuck at the bottom yet easily flies
Present in sun but not in rain
Doing no harm, feeling no pain

i haven't met anyone who knows the answer yet

Shadows?
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Heres mine:

In light it hides, in shadow it plays,
fighting an eternal enemy.
Without life,
it breathes and eats and dies as we do.
Decider of fate, destroyer of life,
it is a necessary evil.