If you stood in a bucket......

and tried to pick it up.How much strength would you need to lift it up with you in it.

Maybe.

It would probably best to get someone to help you.

Give me a lever and a place to stand upon I can move the world. Archimedes, I believe.

In this case a pulley would be just the job - so a little is the answer.

is it a trick question, is the bucket nailed to the floor?

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Originally Posted by TheDave

is it a trick question, is the bucket nailed to the floor?

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Good point. You'd need to be really strong in that case. Like Xena-strong. And have eaten Weetabix.

Where would you be standing, and what would be the Gravitational Forces at play at the time?

Give us all the info before asking for a comitment to an answer you Bar Stewart...

it would be hard to lift anyone. :/

Does the bucket have water in it too?

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There's a hole in my bucket dear Liza.....

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Originally Posted by JPaul

Either Archimedes, or your good self forgot the fulcrum. Having dealt with both of you I am confident she is the culprit.

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I think she took the fulcrum as a given - for poetic effect.

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Typical, lazy poet thinking.

What that would mean is that if you had a long enough .... stick, you could move anything. Which is frankly preposterous.

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Although you could do some serious pokeage.

Pffft, this is obviously a trick question.

You don't lift the bucket, because Einstein says: "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction." So you should push down on the bucket.

I voted "a little", because I didn't understand the poll options.

Einstein never said that, he was german. Pffftththhhhh.

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Originally Posted by Cheese

It would probably best to get someone to help you.

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:glag::glag::glag::glag:

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Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate

because Einstein says: "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."

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that was neuton actually.

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Originally Posted by Tempestv

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because Einstein says: "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."

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that was neuton actually.

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Actually, it was Newton - but why be pedantic.

I can't get both feet in the bucket, I've just tried, impossible

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Originally Posted by Buffalo

I can't get both feet in the bucket, I've just tried, impossible

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try with some Lube (and break your ankles first)

what sort of lube? I've got veg oil, sunflower oil, lard & castrol GTX
but i'm not doing that to my ankles :no:

since your legs are so ultra smooth and minus one mm epidurmus, apply castrol GTX with a drop of sunflower oil, then jump in the air towards bucket, grab your feet, pull em backwards and land with your knees in the bucket.
hope this helps.


btw it aint so easy for teh lil ones

http://www.elizaduck.com/images/bucket%20o%20ducks.jpg

a little effort with enough concentration will do it i think..lol