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Here’s a fairly easy riddle for you: There are three light bulbs in a room, and three light switches outside the room. You are outside and want to match which switch goes with which light bulb. You can only travel into the room once, and cannot come back in again. You can do anything [...] I have been doing a lot of thinking and research into the “Airplane on a Conveyor Belt” conundrum. For some reason, I find this thought experiment to be extremely compelling. You can tell a lot about a person’s thought process (and background) by the way they defend their position. It really is amazing. As [...] I’ve come across a thought experiment that SHARPLY divides people. The funny thing is that there is only one right answer. Physics dictates this to be so. Here it is: A plane is standing on a runway that can move (a conveyor belt). The plane moves in one direction, while the conveyor moves [...] I realized that I have been deficient in the Riddle department. Here is one that I came across recently on Usenet: The King and the Poison In a far away land, it was known that if you drank poison, the only way to save yourself was to drink a stronger poison, which neutralizes the [...] |
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