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@DeManiak 🇿🇦
Would you like to play a game?
Here's how it works:
I will ask you a question to which you must provide an objective and provable answer.
Once you have answered, you may ask me a question, which I must answer in kind.
Then it's my turn again, and we keep going until one of us decides to quit.
Rules:
There is no time limit on an answer.
An answer will be considered acceptable only if it can be verified and proven to the staisfaction of the other person. For example:
- Q: Is the Earth flat?
- A: No.
- Proof: Go outside and observe the moon at night. The path it takes can easily be explained and understood according to the round earth model, whereas the most popularly proposed flat earth models simply can not. In fact, if you examine the more popular flat earth models, the moon should stay at the same distance above the horizon all night, or at least: that is how it seems to me from what I've found in my research.
(If you consider that as"proof enough", great, if not then the burden is on me to keep "proving" it, or admit "I don't know" or else forfeit. Make sense? Does that work for you?)
"I don't know" is considered an acceptable answer, provided you can say you did at least some research.
The only way the game ends is if one quits or forfeits - which they may do at any time. Declining to answer or failure to show proof constitutes forfeiture.
One more rule: no personal questions.
The other one, of course, will be declared the winner of the game.
Full disclosure: my levels of ignorance are high, so it's not likely to take you too long to stump me.
Would you like to play a game?
Here's how it works:
I will ask you a question to which you must provide an objective and provable answer.
Once you have answered, you may ask me a question, which I must answer in kind.
Then it's my turn again, and we keep going until one of us decides to quit.
Rules:
There is no time limit on an answer.
An answer will be considered acceptable only if it can be verified and proven to the staisfaction of the other person. For example:
- Q: Is the Earth flat?
- A: No.
- Proof: Go outside and observe the moon at night. The path it takes can easily be explained and understood according to the round earth model, whereas the most popularly proposed flat earth models simply can not. In fact, if you examine the more popular flat earth models, the moon should stay at the same distance above the horizon all night, or at least: that is how it seems to me from what I've found in my research.
(If you consider that as"proof enough", great, if not then the burden is on me to keep "proving" it, or admit "I don't know" or else forfeit. Make sense? Does that work for you?)
"I don't know" is considered an acceptable answer, provided you can say you did at least some research.
The only way the game ends is if one quits or forfeits - which they may do at any time. Declining to answer or failure to show proof constitutes forfeiture.
One more rule: no personal questions.
The other one, of course, will be declared the winner of the game.
Full disclosure: my levels of ignorance are high, so it's not likely to take you too long to stump me.
Falgn0n The Wizard
in reply to Falgn0n The Wizard • •Alright then. First question:
Who owns the South African Reserve Bank?
Falgn0n The Wizard
Unknown parent • •Your turn.
Falgn0n The Wizard
in reply to Falgn0n The Wizard • •Ok, so - I don't own a duck, or know anyone that does, so I can't test this myself.
But the answer seems to be: "well, yes and no" (or: "false, kind of")
- it's a "fading sound" so any possible echo (depending on the environment) would be nearly impossible to hear or be reduced to little more than a reverberation.
Ref: https://birdstracker.com/why-does-a-ducks-quack-not-echo/
Falgn0n The Wizard
in reply to Falgn0n The Wizard • •Was Nelson Mandela a member of the Order of the Knights of Malta?