you finally back?

more or less.

If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one to hear it, does it make a sound?

yes


can you lick your elbow?

No

What's the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

an african swallow?

whats that off?

monty python and the holy grail, but i could be remembering it incorrectly

Yeah it is........man i love that film. Gonna have to buy it =]

I have to steal from brandan on this one:

trees are inanimate, they do not make sounds.

we're all people, so are you.
make love - not war

Archive.

not being able to perceive something doesn't negate its existence.

prodx should go to hell.

Depends on how big the tree is, what makes the tree fall, and what the tree falls on (or in).

Of course, then you'd have to determine what exactly makes up a tree. If a tree consists of it's roots as well as the rest of it, it's very possible and likely the simple act of falling would cause the uprooting process to create sound waves, as well as creating sound waves when the tree actually makes contact with the ground.

It truly is a question for the ages. A trick question to fuck with people's feeble minds.

There's no real answer, of course, because the question is too vague.

Besides, CS is garbage. It's very much like Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave'. CS players are like the people in the cave. People who leave CS are like Socrates. People who play CS only for the money are like leeches who will go wherever the most blood is and are unconcerned with the quality of the host they habitate.

what the hell happened to comments #1 and #2 in this forum? and trees aren't inanimate any idiot who watched LOTR knows this.

those weren't ordinary trees

zet you liar you big tourist!

i always lie

:D

Ah, but the question remains: did they make any sound when they fell?

of course they did - trees don't make sounds when they fall only when there's noone to listen
and there were surely other trees listening

So you're saying that if a tree falls in the forest, it does make a sound. The only way it wouldn't make a sound is if it was a treeless forest.

exactly

Brilliant :O