Recent content by TonySlim

I don't think the elevator analogy is a good one, at least not to deal with the energy going into the climbing. But if it is a good one, wouldn't the rising weight (per answer "A") also get heavier? As heavy as the heavier monkey? And cancel out the rising...but then it wouldn't be heavier...

I don't approach the cat. I'm usually sitting down and he'll walk by and sit down on the floor in front of me somwhere.

Very often I'll clap my hands while my cats' back is turned because I hate him. Most of the time he jumps just before my hands actually clap. I sometimes try to "fake" a clap by not actually making contact, but of course this doesn't make him jump, because in the future there was no clap. I...

my wife wishes I could ignore myself, but I can't keep my hands to...others?

I'm stealing the following from somewhere, but I don't remember where. "Why do we have to assume they're more advanced than us because they have more advanced technology? Look at the people around you in their cars on the road. Could these people have built their cars at home? Do they look like...

you all may die, but the ladies and I would ride the atmosphere to mars, silver surfer style, and start our super-martian colony.

you could tie a magnet to the trailer hitch.

just siphon some anti-matter from the multiverse. how far away could it really be?

what about choosing to commit suicide so that the others in your soccer team/castaway group could eat a nice meal (a.k.a. you)?

if we all (the universe) got swallowed up by a black hole at the same time, we'd never know, and OUR universe would last forever.

if you drive a front-wheel drive car 100mph onto the back of a car carrier driving 99mph, could you ease it on at 1mph, or would it fly off the front at 100mph? I need to know before my drive home tonight.