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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 01:41 AM
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Two trains leave at 3:30 PM. Train 1 is traveling at 867 MPH, straight up in the air at an angle of 87.62º Fahrenheit. Train 2 actually never left. At 5:41 AM, train 1 asked train 2 if he was in the mood for coffee. Train 2 was not thirsty but for some reason he still wanted some coffee. If gravity is not an object, how many nanoseconds will pass before the trains reach the edge of the world? Also, how much were the train tickets?

Hint: 2+2≠4
 

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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 05:20 AM
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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 05:51 AM
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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 06:42 AM
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Originally Posted by trustdestruction
Two trains leave at 3:30 PM. Train 1 is traveling at 867 MPH, straight up in the air at an angle of 87.62º Fahrenheit. Train 2 actually never left. At 5:41 AM, train 1 asked train 2 if he was in the mood for coffee. Train 2 was not thirsty but for some reason he still wanted some coffee. If gravity is not an object, how many nanoseconds will pass before the trains reach the edge of the world? Also, how much were the train tickets?

Hint: 2+2≠4
This of course will depend on the fecundity of the two trains. Suppose that this occurred in non-Euclidean space, suspending quantum relativity for the duration of the thought experiment. The sun will rise between 3:30pm and 5:41am. Given the degree of the sun at 5:41am, time taken for said coffee break, while keeping in mind that the son of a father will also rise and fall, you must first decide if train 1 and train 2 are the same trains from the original time A and ending time B, time A being at 3:30pm and time B at 5:41am.

Now, this opens a metaphysical dilemma of identity through time. You must first define what the train is.

What is a train (Train A)? Is it merely a collection of parts that move in tandem to create directional motion? Is a train no longer a train when it derails at 867mph, scraping chunks of paint and metal off the side as it careens through an elementary school, killing millions of orangutans and penguins? If you pick that train back up after such a calamity and wipe the blood off, is it still the same train as it used to be? It's missing some paint, a wheel or two, and some metal but it can theoretically perform the same function as a train.

Hypothetically, Train A is set upright, cleaned, welded a little, and repainted. Is it the same train? I say NO! Because there is new metal and paint that wasn't there before. And the train has a new conductor (replaced because the original conductor was killed in the calamity with the penguins and was subsequently fired.) So Train A is actually now Train C.

Train B is actually the same train because it never left until later that morning (at 6:66am to be precise).

In conclusion, I posit that Train B and Train C had coffee at approximately 5:45am and that the tickets cost $121. (Also, the coffee was free for employees.)

Proof of concept:

where
Mass continuity will read:


Of course, one must use their own common sense, lest one have flagpoles miles in diameter and fathers younger than their sons.
 

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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 06:46 AM
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head hert... i no like to thinkkkk!!!!!!!
 
Old Mar 22, 2010 | 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by supersize
head hert... i no like to thinkkkk!!!!!!!
yeah we know evident of the post you make.
 
Old Mar 22, 2010 | 02:32 PM
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The train is a lie.
 
Old Mar 22, 2010 | 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Peg_Leg
yeah we know evident of the post you make.
i like your sence of humor
 
Old Mar 22, 2010 | 05:28 PM
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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 05:29 PM
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Sense. There's a second "s" and no "c". Is spelling really that hard? And you're in college?
 



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