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(Message started by: wonderful on Jan 10th, 2010, 3:36am)
Title: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by wonderful on Jan 10th, 2010, 3:36am
There is a kind of tree with beautiful flowers. However, not every tree has all beautiful flowers on her,  some trees even doesn't have any flower but instead people have to put faked flowers on them. These faked flowers are so well made that anyone, who is  ten meters away from the tree, would confirm that these flowers are real.

Can you, standing ten meters from the tree with faked flowers, recognise wethere they are fake or real flowers? Why?
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by towr on Jan 10th, 2010, 7:49am
[hide]Unless the lats sentence of the opening paragraph is false, I should not be able to see they are fake.[/hide]
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by cheesepuff on Jan 10th, 2010, 10:07am
Yeah, [hide]are you asking can you or how can you?[/hide]

[hide]If it's how, then you could burn the tree. The fake flowers would melt instead of burn (unless they were made of paper or something flammable). Or you could stand in strong winds. Assuming the fake flowers were made in one piece, they would either stay on or blow off in one piece, instead of feather off like real flowers.[/hide]
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by Ronno on Jan 11th, 2010, 3:44am
I would ask a skeptic to confirm if the flowers are real. :P
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by Grimbal on Jan 11th, 2010, 8:42am

on 01/10/10 at 03:36:47, wonderful wrote:
Can you, standing ten meters from the tree with faked flowers, recognise wethere they are fake or real flowers? Why?

In the middle of winter?
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by gotit on Jan 11th, 2010, 9:55am
Is it just a play of words? Because the question says that I am standing 10 metres away from the tree with faked flowers.  ;D
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by JiNbOtAk on Jan 12th, 2010, 12:05am
Sure I could. Anyone would not be able to do so, but I'm not just anyone.  ::)
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by Grimbal on Jan 12th, 2010, 5:36am
Observe the bees.  Bees don't fall for fake flowers.
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by towr on Jan 12th, 2010, 5:48am

on 01/12/10 at 05:36:37, Grimbal wrote:
Observe the bees.  Bees don't fall for fake flowers.
Unless the fake flowers also provide nectar, or even just sugar water. There's plenty of research where they use fake flowers to examine bee behaviour.
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by Grimbal on Jan 12th, 2010, 8:17am

on 01/10/10 at 03:36:47, wonderful wrote:
These faked flowers are so well made that anyone, who is  ten meters away from the tree, would confirm that these flowers are real.

Because the garden belongs to Chuck Norris and, how to say that, you just don't criticize Chuck Norris's flowers.  Or anything else.


Quote:
Can you, standing ten meters from the tree with faked flowers, recognise wethere they are fake or real flowers? Why?

Everybody can.  Who wouldn't spot that these are sunflowers on a cherry tree?  But nobody would admit it.
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by pscoe2 on Jan 13th, 2010, 1:09pm
Block light to tht tree for a long period of time...if flowers die...they are real..if not...they are fake

Or put intense heat around it...(if u want early results)...real flowers will die soon
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by Grimbal on Jan 14th, 2010, 2:17am
That depends in what sense the flowers are fake.

If a flower producer crosses flowers to get a special color/shape/scent/whatever and copyrights the flower, then a real flower would be such a flower produced by the legitimate owner of the copyright, while a fake flower would be the genetically same flower but produced by someone who doesn't own the right on the flower.  Real and fake flowers would be completely indistinguishable, regardless of what you do to them.

I think we need a clear definition what a fake flower is.
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by bmudiam on Jan 14th, 2010, 7:07am
You could stand there for a week or so to see if the flower gets old and falls off, otherwise it is a fake flower.
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by victorpride on Mar 2nd, 2010, 12:38pm
The statement says that you can't tell if the flowers are fake or not. But you might be able to identify the type of tree. If the tree is not a flowering tree, then the flowers are obviously fake.
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by sxiz on Mar 3rd, 2010, 12:26pm
[hide]Just wait until the middle of winter.[/hide]
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by Noke Lieu on Mar 10th, 2010, 4:33pm
I expect that the oficial answer is Grimbals of hte bees- making it an adaptation of the wisdom of Solomon...

Another example of a bit of the bible falling from truth to allegory/parable as the world changes...?
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by mikeseo on May 27th, 2010, 3:52am
[hide]Is it a trick question?! a the end you said  "Can you, standing ten meters from the tree with faked flowers"

Is the answer in the question?[/hide]
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by Grimbal on May 27th, 2010, 8:48am
You got a point there.  They are fake by definition.
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by Noke Lieu on May 27th, 2010, 10:56pm

on 01/10/10 at 03:36:47, wonderful wrote:
Can you, standing ten meters from the tree with faked flowers, recognise wethere they are fake or real flowers? Why?



I agreet hat it's a cute take on it, but I'm not sure that it holds.
Whilst you're 10 meters from the tree with fake flowers, you can also 10 m from a tree with real flowers, and you have be able to determine which is which...
Title: Re: Can you recognize the faked flower?
Post by ThudanBlunder on May 31st, 2010, 12:36am
The tree is known by its fruit.  :P


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