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#26 2009-07-09 12:36:41
- jimmyR
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Re: How would you move Mnt. Fuji?
Just out of curiosity, where do you guys want to move it to?
Won't the Japanese want it back?
I am so confused.
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#27 2009-07-09 20:19:08
- Tigeree
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Re: How would you move Mnt. Fuji?
The Japanese can have another one. By a few hundred years or so (probably more like thousand) enough magma will build and might create another mountain.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
~ Anton Chekhov
Cheer up, emo kid.
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#28 2009-07-15 14:08:45
- jimmyR
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Re: How would you move Mnt. Fuji?
As with symmetries, you don't need a physical movement, merely
interchanging the names of Mt. Fuji and say Mt St. Helens, or calling
Japan France and France Japan, then we would have moved Mt. Fuji
to France without the shipping costs (and the biggest backache in human
history, but if he was to get a backrub from an interesting model it would
be worth it)
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#29 2009-07-15 17:10:40
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Re: How would you move Mnt. Fuji?
That's a pretty good idea. Has Mt. Fuji ever erupted?
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
~ Anton Chekhov
Cheer up, emo kid.
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#30 2009-07-15 21:05:24
- bobbym
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Re: How would you move Mnt. Fuji?
Erect a NYC parking meter in Japan, don't put a dime in it and watch them tow Japan(along with Mt Fuji) to a Bronx impound yard.
Last edited by bobbym (2009-07-16 12:07:07)
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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#31 2009-07-16 12:31:00
- Tigeree
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Re: How would you move Mnt. Fuji?
Nice one, bobby! I would stick a giant heater at the North Pole creating more more water probably drowning most of them islands in the world. Including Japan. Oh no! That'd be me too! That's not such a good idea anymore...
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
~ Anton Chekhov
Cheer up, emo kid.
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