I just saw an amazing movie that happens to have a scene answering the tree-falling question. It's called "Grizzly Man," about a Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend, who were killed by bears. Anyway, Timothy was heavily into documenting his experiences in the wilds of Alaska. He made numerous takes -- up to 15! -- of scenes where he wanted to make a comment. He would set up his videocamera, get it running, and keep filming takes. During one of these sessions he had placed the camera where it would catch sight of him coming down a trail and then he would walk up to the camera and say something. A somehow lovely scenes happened between takes. Treadwell slipped on the trail coming down so he went back up to try it again. He disappeared into the underbrush. Then there were amazing moments when he was farther up the trail somewhere, the camera was running, and there was this view of vegetation swishing and swaying in the breeze, and of course you could hear the sound of this even though no human was listening at the time. It really was a mysterious scene, which the filmmaker (Werner Hrezog) commented on. Cory, my wife, thought it was scary but I was enthralled by it. -- Joe
Sorry, Guy. I'm no mathematician, but I think even that question is conditional. I think related questions, but necessarily THE question, include, If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, does the tree exist? and, If a tree falls in the forest and I'm not there to hear it, does anything matter anyway?
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|I thought about this all night an think I have come up with the ultimate | question for the ultimate answer of 42. Here goes... What is 40 + 2 | | | > Gary Liptrot wrote: | > | >> Did the ultimate answer of 42 ever find the ultimate question to go with it? | >> | >> 73 de n7zi | >> Gary | | | _______________________________________________ | Utah-Astronomy mailing list | Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com | http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy | Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com | | ______________________________________________________________________ | This e-mail has been scanned by Cut.Net Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on Cut.Nets Content Service, visit http://www.cut.net | ______________________________________________________________________ | |
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