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How would you move mount Fuji?
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Like a snail would climb it:
o snail,
climb mount fuji.
but slowly,
slowly.
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #2 on: Oct 30th, 2003, 4:49am » |
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I'd probably just wait, since all the different tectonic plates are moving, and the mountains on them move with it..
If I had to move it to a specific place it'd be a different story.. I suppose it isn't really possible to move it as a whole without changing it so much that it isn't really fuji anymore..
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #3 on: Oct 30th, 2003, 4:38pm » |
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I've seen magicians do this trick on TV in front of a live audience (Not with Fuji, but with other landmarks). As I understand it, the audience is actually in on the trick, and is only there to fool the TV viewers into thinking special effects (in particular, an rotating stage for the magician to work on) are not used.
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Archimedes once said give me a place to stand to and i will move the earth.
I will build a supporting point near mount Fuji. I will build a lever which will be wide at the one end and will be so long it will go in space. So i build a space ship and go in space so i pull it and move mount Fuji.
Or maybe just move the whole earth so the mount moves with it. 
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maryl
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I would take a picture.
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #6 on: Nov 2nd, 2003, 3:13pm » |
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Good answer, maryl. 
What actually IS mount Fuji? If I took away one pebble, it would still be mount Fuji, so how much would need to be removed before it ceases to be mount Fuji? When I remove that final piece of rock, such that everyone agrees that it is no longer mount Fuji, would re-assembling it at another location recreate mount Fuji? As towr has suggested, what makes it mount Fuji is both its location and appearance; alter one of those properties, and surely it ceases to be mount Fuji.
However, if we accept that any object IS the parts that make it up, then would picking up a single pebble constitute moving mount Fuji?
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 Just a thought but taking a strand of my hair from my head and walking away with it wouldn't constitute walking away with me, only my hair, but then again if you want to use that hair as my DNA and create a clone (God forbid), then hm, would it be me? (I know it's a little more complicated than that)
A pebble is far from being a mountain.
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #8 on: Nov 2nd, 2003, 3:33pm » |
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Many objects are more than the parts it makes up..
If you take a computer apart and throw the parts in a box, so they're all still together, then it is no longer a computer. Because a computer is an object that can male computations, and the parts of the box can't do that unless they are in their proper order and connected.
So we have to look at other, perhaps non-material, elements of mount Fuji. In one sense you could say that if you have fond memories of mount Fuji (for whatever reason), then you take it with you in your heart (metaphorically for the nitpickers), wherever you go. And a picture can also help in that regard.
If you cut up the mountain and move it to disneyland, it's very likely it will loose much of the spiritual appeal it has to certain people. So in a sense "it's just not the same" then, and it's no longer mount Fuji (as they knew it).
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #9 on: Nov 2nd, 2003, 3:40pm » |
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on Nov 2nd, 2003, 3:25pm, maryl wrote:| A pebble is far from being a mountain. |
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It's a start
And you don't have to move all of something at once to move it.. So maybe moving the mountain one pebble at a time counts..
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #10 on: Nov 2nd, 2003, 7:19pm » |
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Quote:| In a different time frame, are two places ever the same? |
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Perhaps you should change your login to "Sir Zen"! You seem to be asking all the philosophical questions now. 
Alas that you should be forced to put up with a pragmatist like me.
"Mount Fuji is that big hunk of stone and dirt in Japan. Go to Tokyo and look around - you can't miss it."
"If they were two places, then no - they wouldn't be the same at any time."
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #11 on: Nov 3rd, 2003, 12:37am » |
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He didn't say two different places..
Besides, McDonalds is pretty much the same all over the world, and that's many different places 
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #12 on: Nov 3rd, 2003, 12:42am » |
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Hmm. Can we say that a nearby earthquake moves Mount Fuji? It is not permanently relocated, but the seismic waves certainly make it move, as anyone standing on it would tell you.
If so, then I will climb Mount Fuji and jump up and down. My tiny earthquake won't move it much, but I'll move it a little.
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #13 on: Nov 3rd, 2003, 2:02am » |
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Maybe I'll try telling mount Fuji a touching story, that might move it
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #14 on: Nov 3rd, 2003, 9:38am » |
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on Nov 3rd, 2003, 12:42am, TimMann wrote:| If so, then I will climb Mount Fuji and jump up and down. My tiny earthquake won't move it much, but I'll move it a little. |
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*hilarious images of the little boy in your avatar desperately jumping up and down*
"Move, damn you, move!"
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #16 on: Nov 3rd, 2003, 10:12pm » |
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on Nov 3rd, 2003, 9:38am, Sir Col wrote:
*hilarious images of the little boy in your avatar desperately jumping up and down*
"Move, damn you, move!" |
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My avatar is me at age two. My mom would have washed out my mouth with soap if I'd said that.
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What you need is a really big gopher that can make a molehill out of a mountain.
Or maybe a Fujito truck.
Or ask Mohammed; the mountain will come to him.
Or Einstein; movement is all relative anyway.
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #18 on: Nov 5th, 2003, 12:49am » |
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It's a trick question, the proof of this lies partially in that it is in the Microsoft section.
How would you move Mount Fuji?
I would sit calmly in my interviewee chair and say, "The mountain is already moving, this is so regardless of anything I would or would not do."
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #19 on: Nov 6th, 2003, 12:20am » |
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on Oct 30th, 2003, 3:46am, jojo wrote:| How would you move mount Fuji? |
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I wouldn't
Besides, moving it would be a violation of the Creators copyright, my end-user license only allows very minor changes I you want it moved you will just have to upgrade to Earth-XP
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #20 on: Nov 6th, 2003, 5:32pm » |
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It's easy to move Mount Fuji. How far do you want it moved? Just for demonstration, let's say a simple 5 feet.
[gets up, walks across office.]
There you go. Mount Fuji, and the rest of the universe just moved 5 feet. Anything else I can do for you?
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #21 on: Nov 17th, 2003, 7:11pm » |
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How would you move mount Fuji?
The bible says that you can move mountains, if you believe. So find Jesus. DISCLAIMER: This is sort of a joke answer. I'm not trying to convert anyone.
My real answer would be to just let it move itself, since it is already. Given that no time or space restrictions exist.
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on Oct 30th, 2003, 3:46am, jojo wrote:| How would you move mount Fuji? |
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How would you move xxxxxxxxx?
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on Oct 30th, 2003, 3:46am, jojo wrote:| How would you move mount Fuji? |
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Since Mount Fuji is a totallity of rocks and stuff I would take one pebble from the north side and move to the south side. In principel than totality was moved. Not much but moved. Like when you move a pile of leaf you do not need to put them back in the precise order or structure they were originally
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #24 on: Nov 18th, 2003, 7:48pm » |
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on Oct 30th, 2003, 3:46am, jojo wrote:| How would you move mount Fuji? |
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In small quantities over very large periods of time.
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