Very old computer working?

[dasickninja]

You evil bastard I knew you were plotting on me so I changed the rules. Therefore, its a tie. Technically

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

LOL.


Anyway to accelerate things here:

Question.


If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound if no one is around to hear it?


--> Story.
My friend purchased a house a year ago and after feeding the tree in the back some groth soil w/e, it began making noices. Very strage! A week later though, it started talking! It was officialy the worlds first and only talking tree. It spoke of many things, and asked many questions; it was a very intelligent tree indeed. But one day a visitor came over to awe the tree, but instead told it a joke involving a lumberjack cutting down a tree just like this one. The tree freaked out and started screaming, and since most of you know trees dont have lungs, it didnt need to stop for air. A week passed, a month passed, and it was still screaming as lound as any young girl might. It would not answer to reason, pleas, or gifts, it just kept on screaming.

And yesterday, me and my friend cut down the first, and last, talking tree.

 

[vikris]

You have executed my order! This means party on! 8)

 

[gm0n3y]

Jumbalaya!!

 

[gm0n3y]

Oh and once again, I get back to work and the thread has grown another 3 pages. At least the posts were short so it didn't take to long to catch up.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Nobody likes my joke? Wow you all suck.

 

[dasickninja]

I it was funny just give people a chance to catch up with it.

 

[OldGoat]

First.. I must pay homage to the tireless ones who keep this tread going...
(bows, kisses hand or ring, depending)

To the question... No, a sound is not made since sound is just vibrations against your ear drum which are then turned into electrical impulses of various frequencies that travel to your brain and then translated by the (I forgot which lobe of the brain controls sound)anyway, this is then crossreferenced with your memory synapsis to tell what type of sound you felt (yes, felt, remember sound is only vibrations).

With that said... Do the other trees react to the vibrations... :?:

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

First.. I must pay homage to the tireless ones who keep this tread going...
(bows, kisses hand or ring, depending)

To the question... No, a sound is not made since sound is just vibrations against your ear drum which are then turned into electrical impulses of various frequencies that travel to your brain and then translated by the (I forgot which lobe of the brain controls sound)anyway, this is then crossreferenced with your memory synapsis to tell what type of sound you felt (yes, felt, remember sound is only vibrations).

With that said... Do the other trees react to the vibrations... :?:

NO NO NO your wrong. Sheesh if you had actualy read all 42 pages lol, you would know that!

Anyway, sound is sound reguardless of ears. Sound is the compression of a medium, such as air, at different frequencies and eneries. These waves travel though the the medium untill the kinetic energy of the wave runs dissapates.. Our ears pick up these vibrations called sound and converts them into a signal our brain and understand.

 

[mr_fnord]

You have no proof that this 'air' you speak of exists when not being monitored. If the universe is an information system, and conversion of information to matter is an expensive process which is only undertaken when some group of information is being monitored, then there must be something listening in order the air to be materialized and the sound compression to occur.

Three supporting points:

Why is the speed of light, and everything else, limited? This is the speed of information, and therefore of the materialization process. exceeding the speed of light is fine, but once you get where you are going, you will wait there until the same amount of time passed as if you were moving at the speed of light, then the information of your arrival would arrive, and that area of space (and you) would materialize. you would also appear to be moving at the speed of light to the rest of the universe, since that is how fast the information about your movement would travel.

Halflifes, not the game, and electron clouds. How is it that the more precise scale becomes, ie atomic-subatomic, the less specific the knowledge is? At this scale, we approach or pass below the size of the information units, so instead of a predictable pattern of motion for electrons we get predictable probabilities. Ditto for halflifes. We can know with extreme precision the amount of a large sample of radioactive material that will decay in a given time, but we cannot say with certainty that a single atom will decay in any amount of time. The information system has a greater granularity than the activities that lead to radioactive decay.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

go somewhere else. Dont post that crap here when im at lunch and dont want to answer you.



lol.

Nice science post there.

 

[gm0n3y]

But really, is it still sound if nobody hears it? Or is it just vibrations in a medium? This brings us more to the definition of sound that the original intent of the question. Is sound the act of hearing or the act of noise being made? Being somewhat scientifically oriented, I tend to agree with ComptiaRep.

 

[vikris]

You have no proof that this 'air' you speak of exists when not being monitored. If the universe is an information system, and conversion of information to matter is an expensive process which is only undertaken when some group of information is being monitored, then there must be something listening in order the air to be materialized and the sound compression to occur.

Three supporting points:

Why is the speed of light, and everything else, limited? This is the speed of information, and therefore of the materialization process. exceeding the speed of light is fine, but once you get where you are going, you will wait there until the same amount of time passed as if you were moving at the speed of light, then the information of your arrival would arrive, and that area of space (and you) would materialize. you would also appear to be moving at the speed of light to the rest of the universe, since that is how fast the information about your movement would travel.

Halflifes, not the game, and electron clouds. How is it that the more precise scale becomes, ie atomic-subatomic, the less specific the knowledge is? At this scale, we approach or pass below the size of the information units, so instead of a predictable pattern of motion for electrons we get predictable probabilities. Ditto for halflifes. We can know with extreme precision the amount of a large sample of radioactive material that will decay in a given time, but we cannot say with certainty that a single atom will decay in any amount of time. The information system has a greater granularity than the activities that lead to radioactive decay.

This is something that my f***ed up brain doesn't understands. He is not trying either ( I mean for my brain). Lazy MF!

 

[gm0n3y]

Lunch? Its not even 12 yet here! I am hungry.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

The definition of the frequency of those compression waves is called SOUND.Sound does not equal noise though, as you can have noise in all forms of waves, such as any electromagnetical waves... i.e. background noise from the beginning of the universe. (which is microwaves now). Anyway, what is really confusing it seems is that we are forgetting the term HEARING. When sound enters your ear, you hear it. That is what was being discussed.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Lunch? Its not even 12 yet here! I am hungry.

its 1pm here, and i cant take lunch untill 1:35, cause I need to make it to Sonic Drive-in for happy hour.

 

[gm0n3y]

I usually end up taking lunch from around 12-12:30 till around 2-2:30.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Well I only get a 30minute lunch + 2 15minute breaks. But, i also get every other friday off, which is cool.

 

[CodeJunkie]

I think if you take up smoking you get more breaks, at least it seams that way where I work. I don't think this is fair, but what in life is?

maybe they (smokers) figure they need the extra time now becasue they won't get it later

although that really old actor guy was a total chain smoker and lived forever (until he died), but smoking must have cost him all his fortune because he never retired, just kept on workin' till the day he died. I guess if I got to hang aroung hotties all day making inuendos I probably wouldn't retire either.

Oh, and about the tree falling, it makes lots of noise, it screams "help me, I've fallen and I can't get up" which is a warning to allthe little forest creatures to run away (forest creatures don't offer help you know).

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[CompTIA_Rep]

dont most actors act untill they die because they enjoy the work. The only one I see retiring early is Tom Cruise.

 

[gm0n3y]

That is the one nice thing about my job. The pay is crappy, but I work from 10ish - 5ish and I take whatever lunch / breaks I want. And tens of thousands of worthless stock options!! WooHoo!!

 

[CodeJunkie]

NOOOOO! TC can't retire, I am still waiting for MI:7268:crippled old special agent finally gets impossible mission and dies because he can no longer ride motorcylce on front wheel while shooting with perfect precision at moving targets

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Well in a few years, I will swtich over to my own business and make $100 bucks an hour, 2 hours a day 5 days a week. I do that now, but not always 2 hours a day because I dont spend much on advertising.

 

[angry_ducky]

The last time I checked, this topic was 35 pages long. I'm in a state of shock. Perhaps I'll only post on this one thread from now on.

 

[uber_g]

Quack Quack there go's angry ducky

i shot a duck once, with a BB gun, it was a horrible site becuase i shot it in the jaw


( boom headshot )