The oddities of life and the Universe. Maybe Everything, too.

[repobanjo]

Well, you gtta admit. Lots of things in this world are weird and have mysterious questions. For example "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Post some of your oddities!

If you chke a smurf, what color does it become?

[P.o.t.O]

Let's say I go out to a thrift shop and buy myself a beautiful gold medallion made in 1925 that was molded to resemble the outcome of the famous George Foreman vs. Joe Frazier boxing tournament . A few weeks later, I receive millions of dollars from a 95 year old man, and use the money to successfully build a time machine and travel back to 1925. While I'm there, I get into a bar fight with a drunk and the medallion I'm wearing is ripped off of me and throw onto the floor. After the fight is over, I return to 2005 and live my life as is, totally forgetting about the medallion. Back in 1925, a 15 year old boy finds my medallion and it inspires him to place a bet on the famous boxing match, where he won a good amount of money. He uses this money to create himself a fortune. At the age of 95, he decides to sell it at a thrift shop near his mansion. He tells the store owner to give him the information of the person who buys the medallion. A few days later, I walk in to the thrift shop and purchase the medallion. The store owner gives the old man my information, and the old man sends me his fortune. I use said fortune to construct a time machine and reenact the past, and future, events.

Where did the medallion come from in the first place?

[repobanjo]

Errr. Uhhhhh. You see... *head explodes from the thinking*

Well, first you need to prove that the medallion exists. It could do with some weird science that proves that the medallion doeesn't exist, therefore it can travel around time without paradoxes. I think.

I'm tired, so I will post just two words.

Butterfly Effect. Scary words, aren't they?

[Kratos_Aurion]

Wow, P.o.t.O, just...wow...

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink?
Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
OK, so what's the speed of dark?

[RareBK]

If a tree falls in a forest and noboddy is around, does it make a sound

Unsolveable

[Gold Jinjo]

Originally Posted by P.o.t.O

...and use the money to successfully build a time machine and travel back to 1925.

Did you build a TARDIS stuck in the form of a police box? That'd be so cool if you did... you'd have to invite me over to see it.

Anyway... a while ago I realized that, had Ice Mario never taken in interest in Banjo-Kazooie, TriskalGuilo and I wouldn't have met and developed the aspiration to start an online game company together with a few other great friends. If everthing works out the way we hope, my whole future career might be based entirely on that day Ice bought Banjo-Kazooie and started this website.

That, my friends, is what's called the "butterfly effect".

[Kaz da Breegull]

Originally Posted by RareBK

If a tree falls in a forest and noboddy is around, does it make a sound

Unsolveable

Of course it makes a sound! That's an easy one. Just because nobody is there to hear it doesn't mean that it doesn't produce any sound from the impact.

[Kratos_Aurion]

If a tree starts to fall over, but then pops back up as a joke, do the squirrells in the forest freak out?

[PenquinDude]

Eggs evolved before anything evolved into a chicken as far as we can tell, the smurf would turn dark blue, scared half to death is an expression, the ink itself isn't invisible, psychics are fakes or good psychologists who are good at infering peoples problems, dark doesn't move, it's just an absence of light, and you could put microphones/cameras all around the forest and have a robot cut the tree down. The medallion one has me stumped though.

[R Hunter]

Phantom i'd assume that the medallion was created after the fight. In the first instance of the old man giving you the sum of money my guess is that he had bought the thing when it was made and sold it to the thrift shop years later when he had aged. He then told the shop owner to give him the info of whoever bought it. After that it was your meddling in the time stream that introduced the medallion to the boy hence why he made his money. Things are never created out of thin air, how they come to you is the true mystery.

[Skill]

Well P.o.t.O you would of originally bought the medal from the store, otherwise there's no way you could of obtained it then nothing would of happened you see you never went back in time because you didn't have money, and because you didn't go back in time, the series of avents that lead to you obtain the money were never started. As for the chicken and the egg it would have been a slow build up of evolution that lead to a chicken egg.

[Upsilon]

Originally Posted by P.o.t.O

Where did the medallion come from in the first place?

Heh, haven't heard that one before. Very good. I have to admit, you've got me stumped.

Originally Posted by Gold Jinjo

Anyway... a while ago I realized that, had Ice Mario never taken in interest in Banjo-Kazooie, TriskalGuilo and I wouldn't have met and developed the aspiration to start an online game company together with a few other great friends. If everthing works out the way we hope, my whole future career might be based entirely on that day Ice bought Banjo-Kazooie and started this website.

Not only that, but Ice's interest in Banjo-Kazooie itself was almost certainly caused by some apparently insignificant event if you trace it back far enough, and the existence of this website may well have even larger ramifications in years - months? weeks? - to come. Heck, your birth was caused by a certain combination of small events. I mean, it needn't have been a large event that prevented your parents from meeting.

Originally Posted by R Hunter

Phantom i'd assume that the medallion was created after the fight. In the first instance of the old man giving you the sum of money my guess is that he had bought the thing when it was made and sold it to the thrift shop years later when he had aged. He then told the shop owner to give him the info of whoever bought it. After that it was your meddling in the time stream that introduced the medallion to the boy hence why he made his money.

But the old man only had his fortune because of his bet on the boxing match, which he only made because he found the medallion in the altered timeline. So if he bought the medallion himself after the match, he wouldn't have made the bet on the match, so he wouldn't have become rich, so he wouldn't have been able to give the time traveller the funds to build the time machine.

[Minjo]

Originally Posted by RareBK

If a tree falls in a forest and noboddy is around, does it make a sound

Unsolveable

That seems weird... it has gone through my mind for the past 4 years!
Another oddity is:
who created god?

[repobanjo]

Originally Posted by PenquinDude

you could put microphones/cameras all around the forest and have a robot cut.

Well, with the microphones you would be hearing it, destroyng the factor of "there is nobody there to hear it".

This isn't an unsolvable question, but somewhat ironic.

"Hippopotomonstroususquippedeliaphobia" is the fear of long words. I feel sorry for the people that have to write down their phobias if they have that.

[Andre]

Originally Posted by Minjo

who created god?

Nobody. This is really an easy one, if you think about it. The whole basis of religion is faith. So, the answer is nobody did. In Catholicism at least, God has always existed and always will.