Hmmm ... what is it?
Things it's not:
liquid
gas
solid
animal
plant
mineral
Things it is:
transparent, but visible
always in motion
man's best friend or worst enemy
Additional hint:
it has no gender, but reproduces itself
What is it?
liquid
gas
solid
animal
plant
mineral
Things it is:
transparent, but visible
always in motion
man's best friend or worst enemy
Additional hint:
it has no gender, but reproduces itself
What is it?
Labels: outside-the-box, SharedPuzzle
posted by Zaux at
9:04 AM
24 Comments:
Plasma?
Thinking?
It always get's me into trouble...
Fire?
I'd go with plasma too; but not sure about the reproducing itself, so that's not my final answer (yet).
Well, fire can sort of reproduce himself... :)
I'm not sure exactly what fire is. I take it to be a system which can be a mixture of solid, liquid or gas undergoing an exothermic chemical reaction. But it can spread, and I suppose that you could call that reproducing.
But I'm going off the plasma idea because of the reproducing feature.
I take reproducing, roughly, to mean copying itself.
Light or at least LASER light seems to satisfy the requirements.
hummm... fire and plasma are quite related, actually. Fire is not a chemical reaction, but a composite of gas, solid and plasma (not sure about the liquid, though).
laser light is visible? I think it is only visible when it hits something (reflected by something), and it is not very advisable that it hits your eye... ;)
I'll stick on fire.
I'm going to say human emotion.
The most significant aspect of a fire is that it involves an exothermic chemical reaction, but I'm sure that it is a system. It seems that a fire being a plasma does seem to be acceptable, much to my surprise, as I'd usually thought plasmas involved vey high temperatures - but I knew there were exceptions to that. You're not sure about liquids being involved, try petrol ;)
Haven't you seen a laser light show? Except for light sources, most things are only visble because light reflects of it (I say "most" to avoid writing a detailed list).
It seems that Zaux's problem is causing us to re-examine things that we take for granted.
I still don't what the answer is. Despite my ravings, it may well be fire.
Miguel. I've just re-read my post. Sorry, I didn't mean to sound so snotty.
How about panic?
Seems to tick all the boxes . . . !
Bubbles or plasma
light
Hi Miguel ... good job ... fire it is
Mr. Sour Grapes said:
But you can't see through a fire. You can only just about see through the flames ;)
Mops brow with relief that I didn't say Miguel was wrong.
Laser doesn't cut it either. The lasing physics part does self-reproduce (L Amplification SER), but the light (beam) doesn't.
hows about 'karma'???
My first thought was ego
Karma
The WIND
What a gas!
it's shadow.. i think?
Wind is a moving gas.
Shadows don't reproduce.
Egos don't reproduce.
Karma isn't visible.
Fires aren't transparent (grrr).
I agree with wind. wind is not gas it moves gases. wind itself is just that WIND.
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