POLL: Who here thinks that if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around then it doesn't make a sound?
Honestly.
Because I have an opinion about it, but I need more feedback.
I hate that one. The obvious answer is that of course it makes a sound. But the unemployed existentialist losers want you to say that so they can get into an argument about how you're actually wrong. It reeks of hippies telling me you can't actually OWN land and other such dumbassery, so I usually just say "So by your logic, if I bone your sister (mother/girlfriend, whatever) and you're not around to watch it, then it didn't really happen? Cool!".
POLL: Who here thinks that if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around then it doesn't make a sound?
Honestly.
Because I have an opinion about it, but I need more feedback.
Just for Mike [img]/images/graemlins/laughing.gif[/img]
I'll bite
It is only a pressure wave until it reaches your eardrum, then it becomes a a sound.
No one to hear it = no eardrum = no sound
It's makes a damn sound. I'm with Mike.
sound1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sound)
n.
Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.
The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.
Such sensations considered as a group.
A distinctive noise: a hollow sound.
The distance over which something can be heard: within sound of my voice.
Linguistics.
An articulation made by the vocal apparatus: a vowel sound.
The distinctive character of such an articulation: The words bear and bare have the same sound.
A mental impression; an implication: didn't like the sound of the invitation.
Auditory material that is recorded, as for a movie.
Meaningless noise.
Music. A distinctive style, as of an orchestra or a singer.
Archaic. Rumor; report.
POLL: Who here thinks that if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around then it doesn't make a sound?
Honestly.
Because I have an opinion about it, but I need more feedback.
I hate that one. The obvious answer is that of course it makes a sound. But the unemployed existentialist losers want you to say that so they can get into an argument about how you're actually wrong. It reeks of hippies telling me you can't actually OWN land and other such dumbassery, so I usually just say "So by your logic, if I bone your sister (mother/girlfriend, whatever) and you're not around to watch it, then it didn't really happen? Cool!".
See how they respond.
Tell those tree fucking hippies that trees have feelings too so even if the lumber jack that chopped down that last tree was deaf (to make me toilet paper and car magazines, thank you), the tree heard it's own crash as it fell to it's doom. Depending on how long it takes the diesel swilling logging truck to transport the tree, it might even hear the wood chipper it gets thrown into next.
