If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody around..

does it make a sound? :blink:

the question should be, does anyone give a shit :lol:

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Originally Posted by Proper Bo

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The Fuck?

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Originally Posted by ziggyjuarez

The Fuck?

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fuck the 'question mark':naughty:

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I don't get this, why do millions of people use this question as a brain teaser?

Well yeah it makes a sound, your just not there to hear it. http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/images/smilies/dabs.gif

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Originally Posted by Rip The Jacker

I don't get this, why do millions of people use this question as a brain teaser?

Well yeah it makes a sound, your just not there to hear it. http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/images/smilies/dabs.gif

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:cry: prove it

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Originally Posted by crysmileyguy!

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Originally Posted by Rip The Jacker

I don't get this, why do millions of people use this question as a brain teaser?

Well yeah it makes a sound, your just not there to hear it. http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/images/smilies/dabs.gif

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:cry: prove it

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all you need is a sound recorder;)

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Originally Posted by ziggyjuarez

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Originally Posted by crysmileyguy!

:cry: prove it

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all you need is a sound recorder;)

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:dry: but thats cheating. thats like saying all u need is to slowly lower the tree down on some air bags :shifty:

Could you stop this is really getting to me now...

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Seriously, how the hell is that a brain teaser?

It's going to make a sound, even if no one is around... to say it doesn't make noise is pure stupid...

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Originally Posted by Rip The Jacker

It's going to make a sound, even if no one is around.

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So poetic now seriously stop...

aGrees with RTJ :dabs:

I didn't even realize I that sentence rhymed. :P

That question sucks, trees suck, peoms suck, rhymes suck. :)

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Originally Posted by Rip The Jacker

Seriously, how the hell is that a brain teaser?

It's going to make a sound, even if no one is around... to say it doesn't make noise is pure stupid...

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Actually, a "sound" is the ability to appreciate certain frequencies(vibrations) of compression and expansion of air.

For instance, a falling tree creates a frequency that your ear translates into "sound".

But, similarilarly when J2 mistakes the umbilical cord for a johnson during an ultrasound exam and starts babbling "chip off the ole block" and such, the transducer is creating vibrations that are beyond our ears ability to appreciate them. I guess that is why they call it ULTRA sound.

So yes, a wave of perceptible frequency to humans is emitted when a tree falls in the woods, but a "sound" is only heard by any being in the area able to perceive that frequency.

A deaf person would say that it makes no sound.

Do radiowaves make a sound? Only if we have a receiver able to pick them up and change the frequency into one we can appreciate. We are radio frequency deaf.

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Originally Posted by hobbes

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Originally Posted by Rip The Jacker

Seriously, how the hell is that a brain teaser?

It's going to make a sound, even if no one is around... to say it doesn't make noise is pure stupid...

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Actually, a "sound" is the ability to appreciate certain frequencies(vibrations) of compression and expansion of air.

For instance, a falling tree creates a frequency that your ear translates into "sound".

But, similarilarly when J2 mistakes the umbilical cord for a johnson during an ultrasound exam and starts babbling "chip off the ole block" and such, the transducer is creating vibrations that are beyond our ears ability to appreciate them. I guess that is why they call it ULTRA sound.

So yes, a wave of perceptible frequency to humans is emitted when a tree falls in the woods, but a "sound" is only heard by any being in the area able to perceive that frequency.

A deaf person would say that it makes no sound.

Do radiowaves make a sound? Only if we have a receiver able to pick them up and change the frequency into one we can appreciate. We are radio frequency deaf.

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:glag: at chip off old block remark:lol:

If the tree hits the floor, there will be a sound. Even if no one is around to hear it.

That's what I say, and I'm sticking to it. :snooty:

Im getting dizzy why wont you just stop ffs...

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Originally Posted by Rip The Jacker

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I knew that would happen so now do you like it...

HUH!!

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Originally Posted by hobbes

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Originally Posted by Rip The Jacker

Seriously, how the hell is that a brain teaser?

It's going to make a sound, even if no one is around... to say it doesn't make noise is pure stupid...

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Actually, a "sound" is the ability to appreciate certain frequencies(vibrations) of compression and expansion of air.

For instance, a falling tree creates a frequency that your ear translates into "sound".

But, similarilarly when J2 mistakes the umbilical cord for a johnson during an ultrasound exam and starts babbling "chip off the ole block" and such, the transducer is creating vibrations that are beyond our ears ability to appreciate them. I guess that is why they call it ULTRA sound.

So yes, a wave of perceptible frequency to humans is emitted when a tree falls in the woods, but a "sound" is only heard by any being in the area able to perceive that frequency.

A deaf person would say that it makes no sound.

Do radiowaves make a sound? Only if we have a receiver able to pick them up and change the frequency into one we can appreciate. We are radio frequency deaf.

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That's just so much pish it's inbeleivable.

Oh and it's not a "teaser" or riddle Tessco, it's a koan.

tesco, single "s":rolleyes:

I never thought I'd see the day what I correct JP:01:

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Originally Posted by Proper Bo

tesco, single "s":rolleyes:

I never thought I'd see the day what I correct JP:01:

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Oh dear, oh dear dear dear .... and you, of all people.

BTW do you know what TESCO stands for.

low prices?

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Originally Posted by Proper Bo

low prices?

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;)

A great price and a great deal more, as I remember it.

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Originally Posted by hobbes

Actually, a "sound" is the ability to appreciate certain frequencies(vibrations) of compression and expansion of air.

For instance, a falling tree creates a frequency that your ear translates into "sound".

But, similarilarly when J2 mistakes the umbilical cord for a johnson during an ultrasound exam and starts babbling "chip off the ole block" and such, the transducer is creating vibrations that are beyond our ears ability to appreciate them. I guess that is why they call it ULTRA sound.

So yes, a wave of perceptible frequency to humans is emitted when a tree falls in the woods, but a "sound" is only heard by any being in the area able to perceive that frequency.

A deaf person would say that it makes no sound.

Do radiowaves make a sound? Only if we have a receiver able to pick them up and change the frequency into one we can appreciate. We are radio frequency deaf.

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No, what you are referring to is 'hearing'. Deaf people cannot hear. Because they cannot hear a sound does not preclude that no sound is there.

It has always amused me that people (students, mainly) debate this as if they're clever, when all they are doing is proving that they're a little green.

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Originally Posted by Chewie UK

No, what you are referring to is 'hearing'. Deaf people cannot hear. Because they cannot hear a sound does not preclude that no sound is there.

It has always amused me that people (students, mainly) debate this as if they're clever, when all they are doing is proving that they're a little green.

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Exactly.

The damn sound is there, even if you aren't there to hear it. There is nothing to debate...

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Originally Posted by Rip The Jacker

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Originally Posted by Chewie UK

No, what you are referring to is 'hearing'. Deaf people cannot hear. Because they cannot hear a sound does not preclude that no sound is there.

It has always amused me that people (students, mainly) debate this as if they're clever, when all they are doing is proving that they're a little green.

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Exactly.

The damn sound is there, even if you aren't there to hear it. There is nothing to debate...

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But it's not really about that, it's not a physics question, it's a famous Zen koan. It's something to think about and to meditate on.

How can you know anything that you do not directly experience.

Just realize, there is no spoon.

Um... okay then...

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Originally Posted by JP

But it's not really about that, it's not a physics question

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Awful that this had to be pointed out, rly.

so does it make a noise or what, does anybody know the right answer.

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Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley

so does it make a noise or what, does anybody know the right answer.

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STFU, thumarse.

Of course it makes a noise, as if the absence of any evidence whatsoever would stop me from making a definite assertion about an event :@ :@ :@

I'm with Hobbes on this. :D

And i live in the woods.:shifty:

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Originally Posted by Yogs

I'm with Hobbes on this. :D

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thanks for that, we now have definitive proof he is talking pish.

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Originally Posted by Peerzyman

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Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley

so does it make a noise or what, does anybody know the right answer.

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STFU, thumarse.

Of course it makes a noise, as if the absence of any evidence whatsoever would stop me from making a definite assertion about an event :@ :@ :@

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so that's a no then.

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Originally Posted by JPaul

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Originally Posted by Rip The Jacker

Exactly.

The damn sound is there, even if you aren't there to hear it. There is nothing to debate...

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But it's not really about that, it's not a physics question, it's a famous Zen koan. It's something to think about and to meditate on.

How can you know anything that you do not directly experience.

Just realize, there is no spoon.

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LOL

When I say 'a little green' I do, of course, mean that they're gullible enough to argue that this is a question worth mulling over.
There are some questions which we can certainly rely on experience to answer. This is one of them. The question makes no mention of vacuum. :)

A more pertinent question:
Why do people waste valuable internet time wondering if a falling tree makes no sound if there's no-one there?

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Originally Posted by Chewie UK

A more pertinent question:
Why do people waste valuable internet time wondering if a falling tree makes no sound if there's no-one there?

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You must be paying too much for your connection.......;)

I believe you are presuming, that only humans can hear...Other creatures can too..