Bear Puzzle
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Bear Puzzle
A friend of mine gave me this puzzle, but I'm not sure if his solution is correct:
A bear falls into a trap that is exactly 19.617 meters deep. The falling time is exactly two seconds.
What is the color of the bear?
Note that it is not enough to guess the right color; you also need to give reasoning to back up your answer.
A bear falls into a trap that is exactly 19.617 meters deep. The falling time is exactly two seconds.
What is the color of the bear?
Note that it is not enough to guess the right color; you also need to give reasoning to back up your answer.
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Re: Bear Puzzle
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Re: Bear Puzzle
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I'm looking forward to the day when the SNES emulator on my computer works by emulating the elementary particles in an actual, physical box with Nintendo stamped on the side.
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skeptical scientist wrote:Spoiler:
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enum ಠ_ಠ {°□°╰=1, °Д°╰, ಠ益ಠ╰};
void ┻━┻︵╰(ಠ_ಠ ⚠) {exit((int)⚠);}
Re: Bear Puzzle
skeptical scientist wrote:Spoiler:
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a1s wrote:skeptical scientist wrote:Spoiler:
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phlip wrote:Spoiler:
I don't buy it, but this is getting OT, so I'm starting a new thread.
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Re: Bear Puzzle
No, it wasn't.
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Re: Bear Puzzle
skeptical scientist wrote:a1s wrote:skeptical scientist wrote:Spoiler:
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Bears in nature are color coded. A black one will apparently ruin your solution by just existing.

Back to the drawing board then.
Re: Bear Puzzle
Hint:
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Re: Bear Puzzle
i'm not sure if it was said (quickly scanned spoilers and the prominant one was not the right answer) so i'll say what i think:
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Re: Bear Puzzle
What kind of hunter digs a 20-meter hole?
Seriously, just buy a tranquilizer gun.

Re: Bear Puzzle
My thought (which didn't go anywhere):
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afarnen wrote:My thought (which didn't go anywhere):Spoiler:
Sea of Galilee is also 600 meters i think? A seabear? but wouldn't the water slow the fall...assuming it "falls" instead of "floats"
Re: Bear Puzzle
silvermace wrote:afarnen wrote:My thought (which didn't go anywhere):Spoiler:
Sea of Galilee is ALSO YOU GUYS: 600 meters i think? A seabear? but wouldn't the water slow the fall...assuming it "falls" instead of "floats"
Hey, this isn't on topic, but...
Since when does "a[imath][/imath]lso" get changed to "also" in posts?
It's actually kind of funny, since it's recursive (look at the above quote that I did not edit manually)...
Also, since when does "e[imath][/imath]dit:" get changed to "edit:"?
EDIT: And "skep[imath][/imath]tical" get changed to "skeptical". Am I really behind the times or did this all happen recently?
EDIT 2: This is the last time...
"intern[imath][/imath]et" -> "internet"
I'm amazed that I noticed all these in such a short amount of time. Is there a list somewhere, or a thread that keeps track of these?
Re: Bear Puzzle
all sow typing "w i l l" tuns into Whill Wheaton. Seriously, WTH is going on?
Also, you can't say the F-word on the forums, but you can say the rest of Carlin's 7:
ASLO YUU GAYS: we need a separate thread for this outside of logic puzzles.
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Also, you can't say the F-word on the forums, but you can say the rest of Carlin's 7:
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ASLO YUU GAYS: we need a separate thread for this outside of logic puzzles.
Woopsie: and For-um turns into "a galaxy far, far away"
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You guys should read the very first thread on the page, in the announcements section.
Re: Bear Puzzle
this thread hasn't had any posts in a week. I'm pretty sure we got as far with it as we are going to. So waht;s the official answer, notzeb? Is this bear black or brown?
Re: Bear Puzzle
I realise this thread is quite old, but I ran the numbers before I realised so I'll post this anyways.
I decided to test these conditions, so I derived a formula based on kinetic and gravitational potential energies. time_to_crash = sqrt(g*h/.5)/g
Now that I've derived that, I can reorder to find g, and thus help narrow the location. g=2*h/t^2
This gives us 9.8085 m/s^2. We can now use this to find out altitude! We now take the law of universal gravitation, F=Gm1m2/r^2, reorder for altitude, r=sqrt(Gm1m2/F), run in the numbers, and we get 6374.0199574126711249253201224927 Kilometres.
I decided to test these conditions, so I derived a formula based on kinetic and gravitational potential energies. time_to_crash = sqrt(g*h/.5)/g
Now that I've derived that, I can reorder to find g, and thus help narrow the location. g=2*h/t^2
This gives us 9.8085 m/s^2. We can now use this to find out altitude! We now take the law of universal gravitation, F=Gm1m2/r^2, reorder for altitude, r=sqrt(Gm1m2/F), run in the numbers, and we get 6374.0199574126711249253201224927 Kilometres.
Re: Bear Puzzle
Here's my thought:
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