Drop to a lower orbit
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Drop to a lower orbit
A little more detail, please? (i.e. in which direction do you fire your rockets? Hint: two steps are required)
Edit: Extra Hint - I consider this to be a riddle because the answer is completely non-intuitive...
As I have some maneuvering thrusters mounted on the bow of my spaceship. :D I would make the first thrust towards the earth. This would tip the pointy bit of my spaceship towards the earth and I could then fire my rear bits
Lucky Bob, you must have the new model, most of us are stuck without the front boosrers on our spaceships, so to get the front down we all gotta run right up the front and tip it, this is pretty well useless in zero gravity though.
One way to do it, but remember you have to stop again at the other end! Another big hint: even though it's moving past you, you're currently moving faster than the lower satellite!
Polish your thrusters. A useful product for this application is Max Factor Knacker Lacquer. As most people know, it adds a lustre to your thruster.
Ask the computer to do it.
"Dock with that satellite HAL"
That should work. Unless of course it's having a nervous breakdown :eek:
:D
No takers? The way to catch up with the satellite is, funnily enough, to decelerate. This drops you to a lower orbit with a faster rotation rate, allowing you to overtake the satellite. Once you're past it, you then need to accelerate, reducing your rotation rate and allowing the satellite to catch up to you. Strange but true.
A real riddle:
How many letters does the correct answer to this question contain?
30
At first glance I would have to say 30; however, to be more technical I would have to say six (the word thirty has six letter the number 30 has two numbers. Hmmmn. I wait with baited breath for the answer to this one...
And it is as relevant as the diameter of the hole in a lifesaver
While Bob's answer is technically entirely correct, there is another, less obvious answer that I was after...
10
None - it only contains numbers ?
The correct answer is "A post box." The number of letters contained in the box is unable to be acsertained without opening the box and counting the letters.
OR
42
Four, because the word four has four lettersQuote:
Originally Posted by Tristan Croll
I must be really dumb cause I don't see how the answer could be possible and make sense:confused:
Gemi,
not had it confirmed that I am right but I feel pretty confident that it is four.
The question is:
How many letters does the correct answer to this question contain?
So the correct answer is a number that has the same number of letters as the number itself so:
one has 3 letters
two has 3 letters
three has 5 letters
four has 4 letters
five has 4 letters
six has 3 letters
etc
So the answer is four
It requires quite a leap of logic to say that the correct answer is a number that has the same number of letters as the number itself. I, along with the beautiful dancer, :) cannot follow that line of reasoning.Quote:
Originally Posted by simon C
How the hell do we get to four to get to 4. :confused:
I can't not see no logic there at all!
Simon C has it. In order to satisfy the question, the answer must describe itself - i.e. it must contain the same number of letters as the number it states. This answer insn't unique, though. Another possible answer is:
"This correct answer to the question contains fifty-four letters."
Sorry Tristan, but I still do not see why the answer MUST describe itself. Nor why it must have the same number of letters as the number states. I am sure that I must be missing something. Could you please put it into VERY simple logic form for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tristan Croll
The question is:
How many letters does the WRONG answer to this question contain?
Is the answer still four or any number BUT four?
Ok, the question is asking "how many letters" so the answer has to be a number, right? Now, if I was to answer "three" then I would in essence be saying that the word "three" contains three letters, which is obviously wrong. The only number that does fit is "four".
I'll admit it is a bit ambiguous as written. Another possible answer, for example, is 0 (the number zero obviously contains zero letters).
How about an improvement:
The answer to this question is the name of a number. How many letters does it contain?
There is no answer to this question. In order to be a correct answer, it would have to simultaneously be incorrect.Quote:
How many letters does the WRONG answer to this question contain?
Maybe we should move on. My head hurts. :(
OK, call me stupid if ya wanna. BUT when I went to school I'm pretty sure the number four, "4" contained zero letters, which kinda doesn't fit with your explaination.Quote:
I'll admit it is a bit ambiguous as written. Another possible answer, for example, is 0 (the number zero obviously contains zero letters).
This is the way I worked it out.
The answer must be a number as the question is "How many letters...?". So, let's suppose that we thought the answer was "six". The full question states: "How many letters does the correct answer to this question contain?" If "six" was the right answer then we would ask how many letters "six" contained and we would get 3. So six can't be the right answer because the answer can't be six and 3 at the same time. If we go through all the options, we get the same conflict with "one" (which has 3 letters) and we would get to the possible answer of "four". When we ask how many letters does "four" contain, then the answer is 4. In this case we don't get a conflict so the answer must be "four".
Outback, it's imortant that the answer is "four" and not "4" as "four" has 4 letters whereas "4" doesn't have any as you said. However, you could at a stretch say that the answer is "0", because "0" has no letters - but I think that is stretching the point.
Don't forget this is a riddle and not a quiz.
I am yet to see anything this stretchy.Using the same logic, anyone who answered using didgits, 42, 36,10 etc. has answered correctly because no matter how you look at it NONE of these answers have letters.Quote:
However, you could at a stretch say that the answer is "0", because "0" has no letters - but I think that is stretching the point.
I don't think it's a very funny riddle, riddles are meant to be funny, I know funny, this isn't it. It's a scheme from the aliens to so they can read our minds. I'm gonna go put my alfoil undies on. Everyone reckons my brains are in my arrrs!
Outback
The same logic doesn't apply to the digits 42 because while you're right that in saying that 42 has no letters, in that case the answer is wrong because it would need to have 42 letters. The fact that 0 has no letters makes it sort of correct because the answer is 0. But I still think "four" is the only really correct answer.
Simon
In our next philosophical discussion, we will consider the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin, while those of us of a practical bent will ask 'why the #### would they want to?'.
0 has 4 letters ZERO! or if you go by naught it has 6 letters.
Yeah I agree outback. It isn't a riddle, its not fun, its more like a mind game and a nasty one at that!
This rat stinks :mad:
Hey, lighten up, guys! It's just a game, right?
The number 0 contains zero letters, the word four contains four letters - it matters how the answer is written.
Oh, and by the way, nobody ever said a riddle is supposed to be funny. Riddles are word games that require lateral thinking to answer - not jokes.
What he said! ... I had no idea what the answer was, but I thought simon c's explanation(s) a few posts back made perfect sense. Maybe the riddle was strangely worded, but the fact that there are two explanable answers is all that really matters - 0 or four clearly fit and that's that. No debate required!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tristan Croll
LOL I wsa referring to the dead rat in my house that stinks, not the riddle.
Here is anew one for yas...
What row of numbers comes next?
This is a tough one!
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221
I got the stinky rat bit Gemi.
To answer AlexS' question regarding angels and pins, we would of course need to know the brand of pin before any calculations can forwarded to the angel calculation department.
As to Gemi's riddle, it's been in here before.
If I've put enough thought into it, which is unlikely answer will go something along the lines of
1113213211
Yes - I was going to refer Gemi to this post (the answer I gave earlier in this thread)!
Oh Rats.... ha ha ha ha ha :pQuote:
Originally Posted by outback
I dont get it, or is that the riddle?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tristan Croll
0 or zero has 4 letters?
If Captn Crabtree were here.
1 would be woon, which has 4 letters.
2 would be twoo, which has 4 letters.
3 would be trhe, which has 4 letters.
4 would be foore, which has 5 letters.
6 would be seix, which has 4 letters.
7 would be sevn, which has 4 letters.
8 would be eigt, which has 4 letters.
9 would be neen, which has 4 letters.
10 would be tein, which has 4 letters.
So I realy just dont get it. :confused: :D
Al
OK I went thru the thread and did not see this riddle so here you go...
There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?
Startling : Starting Staring String Sting Sing Sin In I :D
hmmm seems you have done this before :p