How would you move Mnt. Fuji?

mikau · 2009-06-27 18:19:46

one of my scholarship search websites asks you to provide an answer to this question as part of your profile information. But its such a great question, I thought its worth posting elsewhere!

Here are several ways in which i would move mount Fuji:

-first try diplomacy

-find out what mountains eat and leave a trail of those in the desired direction

-move everything that isn't Mount Fuji in the opposite direction

-find another mountain and swap their names

-cut and paste

-cite is as illegally parked and have it towed (or just install a parking meter beside it)

-use a shovel

How would YOU move mount Fuji?

Identity · 2009-06-27 18:48:47

- Run past it, watching it as it moves by.

- My name is not "mount Fuji"!

- I would not move it very well.

- Wait for the earth to rotate.

- Pick a small rock from mount Fuji and take it back to me on my flight home. The centre of mass of mount Fuji should have moved.

mikau · 2009-06-27 18:51:31

nice! but you might as well move a big rock or that center of mass is gonna move awfully slow!

bobbym · 2009-06-27 19:23:42

Hi;

You could have Godzilla move it for you.

mikau · 2009-06-27 20:12:10

hey! no delegation!

Tigeree · 2009-06-28 19:23:09

- dig it out of the ground.
There would be a crater instead of a mountain.

- have Atlas move it, oh no that wouldn't work someone will have to keep the sky up while he does that.

I think I'll stick with my first one then.

mathsyperson · 2009-06-28 22:53:19

Recite some of my original poetry.

soroban · 2009-06-29 03:39:42

.
~ Read passages from "Love Story".

~ Rent a large U-Haul and a backhoe . . .
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jimmyR · 2009-06-29 12:33:13

with faith

Tigeree · 2009-06-29 19:30:31

- Develop telekinesis.

Identity · 2009-06-30 06:10:53

A lever 100000000000 miles long

quittyqat · 2009-06-30 09:11:13

Cast an Engorgement Charm on yourself (Engorgement Charms make things bigger)
Get rid of the land around Mt. Fuji and fill the space with water, then Mt. Fuji would be on an island

Ricky · 2009-06-30 09:36:01

Identity wrote:

A lever 100000000000 miles long

You'd need to build a ship for it, something like an ark immediately.

Tigeree · 2009-06-30 14:08:26

Yeah..... That's a good idea... witchcraft!

bobbym · 2009-06-30 23:32:03

Bring a large celestial object close to it. This should exceed earth's roche limit, causing tidal forces to rip it off the surface.

Tigeree · 2009-07-01 15:30:27

Kool. Cause chaotic sound waves creating a giant earthquake ripping the mountain in half. Actually that might be too much for Japan, it is kind of a small island after all.

Identity · 2009-07-01 16:09:29

Create a wormhole, pushing it into the fourth dimension!

Ricky · 2009-07-01 16:10:20

Ricky wrote:

Identity wrote:
A lever 100000000000 miles long
You'd need to build a ship for it, something like an ark immediately.

In hindsight, perhaps this was a bit to obscure, but I believe Identity was referencing to Archimedes' lever, hence the "ark immediately".

Tigeree · 2009-07-01 20:10:49

Create a black hole. Who knows where I can get some red matter?

Identity · 2009-07-02 07:11:53

Ricky wrote:

Ricky wrote:
Identity wrote:
A lever 100000000000 miles long
You'd need to build a ship for it, something like an ark immediately.
In hindsight, perhaps this was a bit to obscure, but I believe Identity was referencing to Archimedes' lever, hence the "ark immediately".

I don't know how an ark fits in with the lever ?

Ricky · 2009-07-02 09:20:10

Ark immediately... Archimedes... Ark immediately... Archimedes...

Yep. Too obscure.

Tigeree · 2009-07-02 14:31:45

Wow. Nice, Ricky.

Hmm... I'm almost out of ideas, the only ideas I have left include turning mount. Fuji into a giant volcano, blasting it to bits. But that isn't necessarily moving it, though.

simron · 2009-07-03 15:06:11

Is Mt. Fuji coded in Python? Then moving it may cause errors...

mikau · 2009-07-03 15:31:52

why is that, Simron? i don't use python..

Tigeree · 2009-07-03 20:00:02

Mnt. Fuji is as it is, simron, Mnt. Fuji.

Ah! I have it! I'll flood Japan! Well evac first but then I'll totally flood it (really fast) washing Mt. Fuji off it's feet! Or roots, or whatever mountains have...

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