| Author | Message | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 165 Registered: 6-2009 |
I don't know whether or not this is a Scrund but ... When I was younger I used to think something (a scrund) that I wouldn't have thought if I were someone else. What is it? (might be a quickie) | ||
| Logician (Logician)
New member Username: Logician Post Number: 600 Registered: 6-2003 |
"Someone else" - someone specific? A member of a certain group? Someone who isn't a member of a group, to which you belong? Is of a different nationality? Religion (or lack thereof)? Race? Gender? Generation? From what you can see in my profile, can you tell whether it's likely/possible that I may have had this scrund? That I definitely would not have? I see from your profile that you come from Ireland - has the scrund, by any chance, got anything to do with conflicts in Northern Ireland? Any of the combatants in these conflicts? The peace process? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 166 Registered: 6-2009 |
"Someone else" - someone specific? Yope A member of a certain group? Yes Someone who isn't a member of a group, to which you belong? Yes Is of a different nationality? Yes Religion (or lack thereof) Yes ? Race? Yes Gender? Not relevant Generation? Not relevant From what you can see in my profile, can you tell whether it's likely/possible that I may have had this scrund? That I definitely would not have? It's possible you could have had it I see from your profile that you come from Ireland - has the scrund, by any chance, got anything to do with conflicts in Northern Ireland? Any of the combatants in these conflicts? The peace process? None of these | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 841 Registered: 7-2009 |
Was the scrund about the group of people to which the "someone else" belonged but you didn't? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 180 Registered: 6-2009 |
Was the scrund about the group of people to which the "someone else" belonged but you didn't? No | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 849 Registered: 7-2009 |
Is the scrund about a religion? A race? A nationality? Would the scrund have been avoided if you... were familiar with the teachings of the other religion? were familiar with the history of the other nationality? were familiar with the culture (non-religious) of the other nationality? were familiar with the customs (non-religious) of the other nationality? knew people of the other race? were raised by people of the other race? Is there one specific other religion? race? nationality? Or was the scrund something that only people of your specific religion, race, and nationality could have had? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 195 Registered: 6-2009 |
Is the scrund about a religion? A race? A nationality? Would the scrund have been avoided if you... were familiar with the teachings of the other religion? were familiar with the history of the other nationality? were familiar with the culture (non-religious) of the other nationality? were familiar with the customs (non-religious) of the other nationality? knew people of the other race? were raised by people of the other race? Is there one specific other religion? race? nationality? Or was the scrund something that only people of your specific religion, race, and nationality could have had? FA, this scrund is nothing about religion race or nationality. | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 859 Registered: 7-2009 |
For what it's worth...I wasn't assuming that the scrund had anything to do with any of those things. You said that religion, race, and nationality are things that separate the "someone else" from you. So I was checking to see whether knowledge they would have gained from any of those differences would help them avoid the scrund. Does that distinction change any of your answers to my above questions? Or is the "someone else" members of an organization that happens to consist of people who are all a different religion, race, and nationality from you? But the difference is membership in the organization, rather than any of the demographic factors that happen to define the group members? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 199 Registered: 6-2009 |
For what it's worth...I wasn't assuming that the scrund had anything to do with any of those things. You said that religion, race, and nationality are things that separate the "someone else" from you. So I was checking to see whether knowledge they would have gained from any of those differences would help them avoid the scrund. Does that distinction change any of your answers to my above questions? Ok this is getting confusing. I'll give you a hint. This someone else is not a human. So there's no need anymore to talk about different organisations or nationalities. Sorry for not being clear! Or is the "someone else" members of an organization that happens to consist of people who are all a different religion, race, and nationality from you? But the difference is membership in the organization, rather than any of the demographic factors that happen to define the group members? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 861 Registered: 7-2009 |
Oh. I guess we did forget to ask the all important HAM question, eh? Thanks for the tip. Animal? Alien? Deity? Supernatural being? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 200 Registered: 6-2009 |
Oh. I guess we did forget to ask the all important HAM question, eh? Thanks for the tip. After all, an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Animal? This Alien? Deity? Supernatural being? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 863 Registered: 7-2009 |
Mammal? Fish? Amphibian? Reptile? Bird? Microscopic animal? Just animals in general? Pets? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 201 Registered: 6-2009 |
Mammal? Fish? Amphibian? Reptile? Bird? This Microscopic animal? Just animals in general? Pets? All else no | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 865 Registered: 7-2009 |
Canary in a coal mine relevant? Big Bird? Dodo birds? Penguins? Ostriches? Does it have to do with ostriches in cartoons hiding by sticking their heads in the sand? Some other flightless bird? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 203 Registered: 6-2009 |
Canary in a coal mine relevant? Big Bird? Dodo birds? Penguins? Ostriches? Does it have to do with ostriches in cartoons hiding by sticking their heads in the sand? Some other flightless bird? Definately not. All else no | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 868 Registered: 7-2009 |
Is it a scrund about flying? The mechanics of flying? Hummingbirds relevant? Is it a particular species of bird? A particular category of birds (within birds that fly)? all birds that fly? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 206 Registered: 6-2009 |
Is it a scrund about flying? This The mechanics of flying? Hummingbirds relevant? Is it a particular species of bird? A particular category of birds (within birds that fly)? all birds that fly? This | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 712 Registered: 10-2008 |
So, if you were a bird, you would have understood something about flight that, as a human child, you did not? Were you, as a human, correct? Or would the bird's understanding of flight be more correct? Does it have to do with gravity? Flapping wings? Feathers? The reason one would have for flying? Whether humans can fly? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 879 Registered: 7-2009 |
Did you think that things that could fly were lighter than air? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 176 Registered: 9-2009 |
Would it work with flying insects as well as flying birds? Bats? Gliding animals such as flying fish or flying squirrels? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 208 Registered: 6-2009 |
So, if you were a bird, you would have understood something about flight that, as a human child, you did not? Yes Were you, as a human, correct? No Or would the bird's understanding of flight be more correct? No Does it have to do with gravity? No Flapping wings? No Feathers? No The reason one would have for flying? No Whether humans can fly? But humans can fly | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 714 Registered: 10-2008 |
I never said they couldn't; does the scrund have to do with whether humans can fly? So, if you were a bird, you wouldn't think this? Is that just because birds don't tend to have many complex thoughts? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 210 Registered: 6-2009 |
I never said they couldn't; does the scrund have to do with whether humans can fly? Sorry for that. No So, if you were a bird, you wouldn't think this? Well you might, but birds can get proof easily of this while we can't. Is that just because birds don't tend to have many complex thoughts? No | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 885 Registered: 7-2009 |
Is the title relevant? Is it about fear of flying? Learning to fly? Also, you missed Galfisk's questions as well as a post of mine. | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 211 Registered: 6-2009 |
Is the title relevant? Yeshish Is it about fear of flying? No Learning to fly? No Did you think that things that could fly were lighter than air? No Would it work with flying insects as well as flying birds? I don't think so Bats? No Gliding animals such as flying fish or flying squirrels? No | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 178 Registered: 9-2009 |
Does it have to do with a certain aspect of flying? Such as: taking off? Landing? Diving? Soaring? Fear of heights? Fear of something else? Would it not work with the other listed animals because of: Different types of wings? Different size? Different ways of flying? How high they can fly? Different anatomy? This is probably not it, but: Did you think the claws were the birds' "hands" and the wings their "feet" anatomically speaking? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 214 Registered: 6-2009 |
Does it have to do with a certain aspect of flying? Such as: taking off? Landing? Diving? Soaring? Just the main flying part Fear of heights? No Fear of something else? No Would it not work with the other listed animals because of: Different types of wings? No Different No size? No Different ways of flying? No How high they can fly? This Different anatomy? No This is probably not it, but: Did you think the claws were the birds' "hands" and the wings their "feet" anatomically speaking? No | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 722 Registered: 10-2008 |
Did you think that there was a limit to how fly a bird could fly (that wasn't true)? Like, they couldn't fly higher than the clouds? Or, did you think they could fly higher than they could? Like, to the sun? Did the scrund involve a fundamental confusion about the sun, moon, stars, or other objects in the sky? Did you think bird flight was affected by these things? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 186 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did you think clouds were the consistence of cotton? As a skydiver, I can confirm that they are not. Clouds are, in fact, the consistence of wet =) | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 221 Registered: 6-2009 |
Did you think that there was a limit to how fly a bird could fly (that wasn't true)? Like, they couldn't fly higher than the clouds? Or, did you think they could fly higher than they could? Like, to the sun? Did the scrund involve a fundamental confusion about the sun, moon, stars, or other objects in the sky? Did you think bird flight was affected by these things? Did you think clouds were the consistence of cotton? As a skydiver, I can confirm that they are not. Clouds are, in fact, the consistence of wet =) All no and I think you know where the title comes from but you obviously don't have it! | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 194 Registered: 9-2009 |
Was the scrund about what things look like from above? The size/placement of objects in the sky? Something to do with air currents? Would going up in an airplane and looking out the windows correct your scrund? How about jumping out of one? ;-) | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 227 Registered: 6-2009 |
Was the scrund about what things look like from above? Yesish The size/placement of objects in the sky? Yesish Something to do with air currents? Nope Would going up in an airplane and looking out the windows correct your scrund? Yes How about jumping out of one? ;-) Would I be here right now if that happened? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 900 Registered: 7-2009 |
Did you think that since birds looked really tiny to you while they were far up, you must look really huge to the birds? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 231 Registered: 6-2009 |
Did you think that since birds looked really tiny to you while they were far up, you must look really huge to the birds? No Also Congratz on 900th post! | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 198 Registered: 9-2009 |
Vertigo relevant? Perspective? Are clouds relevant? Sun/moon/other celestial objects? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 907 Registered: 7-2009 |
thank you. I think I might be a bit of an addict =) Is it about the composition of the air up that high? Are clouds relevant? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 237 Registered: 6-2009 |
Vertigo relevant? Perspective? This Are clouds relevant? Sun/moon/other celestial objects? All else no. Is it about the composition of the air up that high? Are clouds relevant? None of these | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 909 Registered: 7-2009 |
Is it how things looked above them? Maybe you thought the sun would look bigger? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 201 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did you think birds could see the curvature of the earth? Did you think something on the ground looked different from above than it did? Or a different size? Of so: Buildings? People? Nature? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 241 Registered: 6-2009 |
Is it how things looked above them? Maybe you thought the sun would look bigger? Did you think birds could see the curvature of the earth? Did you think something on the ground looked different from above than it did? Or a different size? Of so: Buildings? People? Nature? All no. | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 206 Registered: 9-2009 |
The horizon relevant? Anything on the ground relevant? Man-made objects? The landscape itself? A specific feature of the landscape (such as mountains)? Would looking at the earth from space also have cured this scrund? Fog relevant? Weather? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 245 Registered: 6-2009 |
The horizon relevant? Anything on the ground relevant? Man-made objects? This The landscape itself? A specific feature of the landscape (such as mountains)? Would looking at the earth from space also have cured this scrund? Fog relevant? Weather? All else no! | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 950 Registered: 7-2009 |
Man made objects = buildings? Radio towers? airplanes? hot air balloons? Some other flying mode of transportation? Regular balloons? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 250 Registered: 6-2009 |
Man made objects = buildings? Radio towers? airplanes? This! hot air balloons? Some other flying mode of transportation? Regular balloons? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 955 Registered: 7-2009 |
Does this have to do with the relative size of birds and airplanes? did you think that airplanes flew like birds? Did you think airplanes were birds? Are bird-airplane collisions relevant? Is this about which one can fly higher in the sky? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 251 Registered: 6-2009 |
Does this have to do with the relative size of birds and airplanes? No did you think that airplanes flew like birds? No Did you think airplanes were birds? No Are bird-airplane collisions relevant? No Is this about which one can fly higher in the sky? No | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 236 Registered: 9-2009 |
Could it be said that your scrund was about airplanes? When a plane flies overhead at high altitude, its noise appears to be coming from a location behind the airplane because of the time the sound takes to travel to the ground. When I was little, I thought this happened because the plane was supersonic. Something like this relevant? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 253 Registered: 6-2009 |
Could it be said that your scrund was about airplanes? Definately. When a plane flies overhead at high altitude, its noise appears to be coming from a location behind the airplane because of the time the sound takes to travel to the ground. When I was little, I thought this happened because the plane was supersonic. Something like this relevant? No | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 255 Registered: 9-2009 |
Was the scrund about: How they fly? How they do a specific manouver? How high they fly? How fast they fly? How fast they climb? The noise they make? How big they are? How close to birds they fly? Condensation trails? Jets? Propellers? Was the scrund about helicopters as well? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 283 Registered: 6-2009 |
Was the scrund about: How they fly? How they do a specific manouver? How high they fly? How fast they fly? YES!!! How fast they climb? The noise they make? How big they are? How close to birds they fly? Condensation trails? Jets? Propellers? Was the scrund about helicopters as well? All else no | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 259 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did you think birds flew faster that airplanes? Because if you looked at a bird an and airplane in the sky, the birds apparent speed was higher because of the perspective? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 288 Registered: 6-2009 |
Did you think birds flew faster that airplanes? Because if you looked at a bird an and airplane in the sky, the birds apparent speed was higher because of the perspective? No | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 267 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did you think they went: faster than they do? Slower than they do? Was the scrund about anything else to do with airplanes, in addition to their speed? | ||
| Tommyp (Tommyp)
New member Username: Tommyp Post Number: 402 Registered: 3-2004 |
Did you, when you saw a low-flying airplane pass you in seconds, think that the plane could circle the Earth in a minute or so? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 291 Registered: 6-2009 |
Did you think they went: faster than they do? Slower than they do? ...And we have a winner! Was the scrund about anything else to do with airplanes, in addition to their speed? Did you, when you saw a low-flying airplane pass you in seconds, think that the plane could circle the Earth in a minute or so? All else no! **********SPOILER********** When I was younger when being in an aeroplane I thought it was going quite slow (compared to the clouds), less than a car would go. While in fact they go approx. 500 - 600 mph! Well thanks for doing the puzzle and... Shiny Gold Star = Noel Shiny Gold Star = Galfisk Slightly Less Shiny Gold Star = Gourami | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 733 Registered: 10-2008 |
*polishes up my star* I had the same scrund as a child. In fact, I remember that was the only question I got wrong on my first grade Standards of Learning tests. |
