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Is the glass half empty or half full?

Originally posted by monsieurjohn
"hey! I ordered a cheeseburger!" (obscure "far side" reference)

alternatively, the ratio of water to air in the glass in question is 1:1

ordinarily, though, the glass is half full in my opinion
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WHAT?!
 
:lol:

sorry, those were three separate answers

#1) an old "far side" cartoon characterizing the four basic personality types:
  • The Glass is Half Full
  • The Glass is Half Empty
  • Half full... no, half empty... wait, half-- could you repeat the question?
  • "Hey! I ordered a cheeseburger!"

#2) i was proud of myself for coming up with a response favoring neither air nor water, which defeats the test: the ratio of air and water is 1:1

#3) my personal philosophy, for the most part: the glass is half full

sorry folks, it was probably really early or something.
 
Originally posted by monsieurjohn
#2) i was proud of myself for coming up with a response favoring neither air nor water, which defeats the test: the ratio of air and water is 1:1
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i was just trying to ignore the far side thing... and i guess i messed the ratio and half full bit.

although, i love this answer :rotflmao:
 
Prove to me, without calling upon the power of the senses, which can be made to lie, that the glass exists, and I will give you my answer...

Ahhh, stuff it.

Anywhere in the known universe, the glass is always all full, granted the substances may not be very dense (IE, Space, the closest thing to true vacuum we know of, just some hydrogen atoms) but to correctly answer the question we must assume that one part of the glass has literally nothing in it, pure vacuum, whilst the other half hold for example water.
Given these amazingly unlikely curcumstances, the glass MUST be half full, because one cannot measure nothing!

The first person to make sense of that gets a free beer!
:beer:

[edit]Correction, since we don't know if light is matter or a mere waveform, we must also note that space may also contain photons. That is all.[/edit]
 
I'm very confused now. I don't know if it's because I need sleep or because you MAKE NO SENSE. Heh..maybe it's some of both ;)
 
i understand too!

but light has a dual nature, both particulate and wave... so you do definitely have to take it into account. just a little f.y.i.
 
I always see it as Half full if you fill it half way first off. And half empty if you filled it full then drank half of it then it would be half empty. If that made sense? :tomato:
 
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