How would you move Mount Fuji?

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Excellent book.

Although this isn't entirely a puzzle book, I enjoy the challenge of them. I also enjoy reading about the history of Silicon Valley, Microsoft, intelligence testing, etc.. This book has all of these attributes and more.

It's the first non-technical book I've read in a long time. Next thing you know I'll be reading fiction!

Btw, how would you move Mount Fuji?
 
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RyanM

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Originally posted by: Descartes
Excellent book.

Although this isn't entirely a puzzle book, I enjoy the challenge of them. I also enjoy reading about the history of Silicon Valley, Microsoft, intelligence testing, etc.. This book has all of these attributes and more.

It's the first non-technical book I've read in a long time. Next thing you know I'll be reading fiction!

Btw, how would you move Mount Fuji?
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A glorious display of nuclear explosions.

The question is, why WOULD you WANT to move Mount Fuji?
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: MachFive
Originally posted by: Descartes
Excellent book.

Although this isn't entirely a puzzle book, I enjoy the challenge of them. I also enjoy reading about the history of Silicon Valley, Microsoft, intelligence testing, etc.. This book has all of these attributes and more.

It's the first non-technical book I've read in a long time. Next thing you know I'll be reading fiction!

Btw, how would you move Mount Fuji?
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A glorious display of nuclear explosions.

The question is, why WOULD you WANT to move Mount Fuji?
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If you ask that, you miss the point of the question :)
 
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GasX

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Well, I would use nuclear weapons. We have an established precedence that it's ok to detonate nuclear warheads in Japan and I still hold a grudge for my uncle dying in a jap POW camp in WWII. I don't care how far it moved as that would actually be the secondary objective...
 
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fatbaby

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
Well, I would use nuclear weapons. We have an established precedence that it's ok to detonate nuclear warheads in Japan and I still hold a grudge for my uncle dying in a jap POW camp in WWII. I don't care how far it moved as that would actually be the secondary objective...
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So you want to kill the namco factory?!??!?!? NOOOOOES!!!!
 
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RyanM

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Originally posted by: MachFive
Originally posted by: Descartes
Excellent book.

Although this isn't entirely a puzzle book, I enjoy the challenge of them. I also enjoy reading about the history of Silicon Valley, Microsoft, intelligence testing, etc.. This book has all of these attributes and more.

It's the first non-technical book I've read in a long time. Next thing you know I'll be reading fiction!

Btw, how would you move Mount Fuji?
Click to expand...

A glorious display of nuclear explosions.

The question is, why WOULD you WANT to move Mount Fuji?
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The question has a point?

That's a new one to me.

The only reasonable purpose to blowing up Fuji would be to collect the stuff it was composed of to build an interstate highway between Hawaii and California. That'd be the ONLY legitimate use of all that rock and dirt.
 
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Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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Originally posted by: MachFive
Originally posted by: MachFive
Originally posted by: Descartes
Excellent book.

Although this isn't entirely a puzzle book, I enjoy the challenge of them. I also enjoy reading about the history of Silicon Valley, Microsoft, intelligence testing, etc.. This book has all of these attributes and more.

It's the first non-technical book I've read in a long time. Next thing you know I'll be reading fiction!

Btw, how would you move Mount Fuji?
Click to expand...

A glorious display of nuclear explosions.

The question is, why WOULD you WANT to move Mount Fuji?
Click to expand...

The question has a point?

That's a new one to me.

The only reasonable purpose to blowing up Fuji would be to collect the stuff it was composed of to build an interstate highway between Hawaii and California. That'd be the ONLY legitimate use of all that rock and dirt.
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The question itself is unreasonable, so why are you assuming there's a reasonable purpose behind asking an unreasonable question?

Not all questions have an answer.
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I wouldn't do anything. It's always moving relative to something.
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That was actually my first thought: does it need to really move or just leave the perception that it moved? Assuming you actually had to move it, the "right" answer would be to use a fermi estimation.
 
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Lifer
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Wait thousands or millions of years, and let natural seismic activity move it for me.

I could look at Mt. Fuji, and cross my eyes.

I could take a picture of Mt. Fuji and then use a photo editor.

Use an army of hamsters running in wheels to power a conveyor belt, and have monkeys pound the mountain into pieces and put them on the belt.

Or just do nothing at all, and recognize that the entire planet is moving through space at an incredible speed - the mountain's already moved then. :)
 
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Originally posted by: Descartes
Originally posted by: isekii
just rename the original mt fuji to one thing and name another moutain mt fuji
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That's a creative answer, I like it.
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Very good answer. I would think this is the best solution.
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: OulOat
Originally posted by: Descartes
Originally posted by: isekii
just rename the original mt fuji to one thing and name another moutain mt fuji
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That's a creative answer, I like it.
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Very good answer. I would think this is the best solution.
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In one of my earlier posts I asked the question whether or not it actually had to be physically moved. Based on the "right" answer in the book (fermi approximation), you couldn't simply rename it.

I still think it's a creative answer though.
 
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Schadenfreude

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Originally posted by: AlienCraft
Rig it to Mothra after getting Godzilla to loosen it up with some serious Kicking.
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But . . .won't the Power Rangers intervene?! Damn goody two-shoes!
 
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