The Buckets by Greg Cravens for November 05, 2020

Of course it makes a sound. Why discount all the other living things around the tree other than humans?

It’s all in your mind.

In his case, I think the shock waves go in one ear, bypass what he uses to help him walk, and out the other ear.

Toby pretending to be a philosopher is like seeing American billionaires using all their wealth to help rebuild the US economy after Trump.

Will happen only if they’re wrestled to it by their creator. Unfortunately billionaires are less likely to be made doing that by their creator.

Sound can’t pass through the vacuum hovering over his shoulders …

It makes a sound, but does not make a noise.

It’s just pressure waves travelling through the air until your ears perceive it as sound, or noise cancelling headphones don’t actually work.

That’s the best explanation to that conundrum I’ve seen, or heard for that matter.

Go ask Heisenberg.

If a tree falls in the forest and there is no living thing to experience the sound or vibrations, then my guess is that the planet is dead

If some sort of recording device is operating near where the tree falls and then played back later, I’d put money on there being a sound on it… ☺

Depends on whether mute button is on.

Why doesn’t she dump that dummy?

If a man is speaking the forest, and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong? My sister’s reply was, “What a silly question: of course he is!”

What’s next, the one about an irresistible force and an immovable object? I think it was Isaac Asimov who wrote that he impressed a girl by explaining that particular conundrum. His solution was that the two things couldn’t possibly exist in the same universe.

If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one to see it does it really fall?

If dinosaurs lived before there were any humans did they really exist?