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James Fingas
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #25 on: Nov 19th, 2003, 1:50pm » |
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I would walk up to mount Fuji and kick it. The sound wave, although too small to be detected, would move every portion of the mountain by a small amount as it propogates through the rock.
I would then conclude the remainder of my seven-week vacation in the locales of mount Fuji secure in the knowledge that I had moved a mountain 
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #26 on: Nov 20th, 2003, 4:47pm » |
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That one will not necessarily work. If your kick is too small, the soundwave amplitude will drop below the level of quantum noise before it can propagate to the whole mountain. Once it drops that low, it ceases to exist.
So instead of kicking it (hard on the toes anyway), you could bring a sledge hammer, find a solid rock outcropping, and give it a good whack. This may be enough produce a sufficiently large wave to be detectable with sensitive equipment on the opposite side of the mountain.
However, even then, there is the question of whether wave is able to propagate to all portions of the mountain through the loose dirt. Maybe some explosives...
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #27 on: Nov 20th, 2003, 5:31pm » |
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That's it! Explosives. But, where to find the kind of explosives we need?
Start a campaign of propaganda in the world press claiming that weapons of mass destruction are hidden in a cave deep under Mount Fuji. Then have a UN commission come to search for the cave. (It doesn't exist, so they won't find it, but that is a trivial matter.) Then foment greater fear and hate in those countries that do have weapons of mass destruction until popular opinion grants a mandate to the leaders of those countries allowing them to drop newly developed bunker busting bombs (weapons of small destruction).
This will have the effect of moving Mount Fuji into the upper atmosphere where it will float around until it comes to rest (in part anyway) in Redmond Washington, proving beyond a doubt to the interviewer of your great skill and leadership ability. Resulting in you getting the job as manager of Media Relations where you assume the title of Spin Meister Grande, and succeed in getting Bill Gates elected as King of the World. 
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True LOVE can move a mountain. So i will fall in love with some pretty girl and our mutual love, strong desire, dreams and affection will move mount Fuji.
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #29 on: Nov 21st, 2003, 5:28pm » |
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on Nov 21st, 2003, 6:17am, krakaduza wrote:True LOVE can move a mountain. So i will fall in love with some pretty girl and our mutual love, strong desire, dreams and affection will move mount Fuji.
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Nice answer!
"Oh, what a feelin's just come over me
Love can move a mountain, make a blind man see
Everybody sing it now come on let's go see
Deep in the valley now, we ought to be free"
- Rascals - People Got To Be Free
Another possible answer: Mt. Fuji is still classified as an active volcano, although it has a "low risk of eruption" (http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Fuji). So if you wait long enough, the volcano might erupt and move itself.
Another avenue: Play with the Japanese mythology surrounding Mt. Fuji.
Also, as indicated by a jpursell, "moving mountains" is a metaphor very frequently found in religious rhetoric. Maybe your Microsoft interviewer is a believer 
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What eats rocks,
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TenaliRaman
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #31 on: Nov 28th, 2003, 1:01pm » |
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the answer to maryl's question would be time i think.
and come to think of it.
How would i move mount Fuji?
i would travel in time.
Maybe that's what Maryl is hinting to.
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #33 on: Jan 22nd, 2004, 7:05pm » |
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Interviewer: How would you move Mt. Fuji?
Me: Ahh! You've met my cat. Open a can of tuna fish and Mt. Fuji will come running.
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #35 on: Jan 27th, 2004, 6:00am » |
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That reminds me of one of those email jokes about a dog named "sex." Certain riddles can be solved if you name a person or a pet a word from the riddle and manipulate it like this.
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #36 on: Mar 30th, 2004, 5:39pm » |
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That reminds me of a joke:
A little girl comes up to her father and asks, "Daddy, what's sex?"
The father is flustered, but decides it is time to explain the birds and the bees to his pre-school daughter. After he explains everything, he decides he should find out the source of his young daughter's new found interest.
So, he asks her, "Why did you ask about sex?"
The little girl says, "Because Mommy says dinner will be ready in a couple of secs."
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #38 on: Apr 1st, 2004, 7:00pm » |
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Jesus said,
"If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." (Matthew 17: 20)
I suppose if you have the faith to move Mt. Fugi, you can, but where would moving Mt. Fugi get you in life?
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #39 on: Apr 30th, 2004, 1:55am » |
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This is the microsoft forum right?
Just make a big advertisement campain that shows that Mt Fuji is actually that other mountain somewhere else in Japan. Let people forget about the "old" Mt Fuji.
Mt Fuji is Mt Fuji only because people call it Mt Fuji.
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Vikont
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If you blow a large hole underneath mt Fuji, it will drop down under its own weight.
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If you are a programmer, write a class of object and name it MyFuji. Write a Move method with the coordinates as parameters. Now instantiate that class and call its Move method. What programming language to use is not that important but you'll get extra lollipop if you do it in Visual Basic.NET.
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #42 on: Aug 9th, 2004, 9:06am » |
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Maybe you could just take a short walk. In doing so, the position of Mt. Fuji will have cahnged relative to yourself, and so you will have "moved" Mt. Fuji (as well as the rest of the objects in the universe).
Of course, the fact that Mt. Fuji is constantly moving, since it is a part of a tectonic plate which is moving on the surface of the Earth, which is spinning on its own axis while orbitting the Sun, which is moving as part of an outer arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, etc. Given all of this, I would imagine it would be harder to keep Mt. Fuji stationary  . (Granted, this method does rely on some absolute means of determining position, hence why I started with the relative space answer...)
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #43 on: Aug 15th, 2004, 3:18am » |
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Ah, this is an easy one...
According to the pokedex of Pokemon Yellow, Machamp can move mountains with only one of it's hands.
http://pokemonpalace.net/pokedex/machamp.htm
Thus, all I have to do is open a dimensional/temporal wormhole, retrieve a Machamp from it and coax it into moving Mt. Fuji. Problem solved!
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #44 on: Aug 16th, 2004, 2:48pm » |
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If I was asked this at an interview my instinct would be ask how much budget spend I was allowed.
However, I vaguely remember my Physics teacher at school drumming on about conservation of motion. I think it went along the lines of if I jumped up the earth jumps away from me.
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #45 on: Nov 3rd, 2004, 9:19pm » |
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humn how about starting to move away from mount fiji ...
that should move it right 
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #46 on: Nov 4th, 2004, 1:03am » |
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on Nov 3rd, 2004, 9:19pm, coolnfundu wrote:humn how about starting to move away from mount fiji ...
that should move it right |
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That should move the whole earth (including anything on it)
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #47 on: Nov 4th, 2004, 10:19am » |
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on Aug 16th, 2004, 2:48pm, bishwa wrote:| However, I vaguely remember my Physics teacher at school drumming on about conservation of motion. I think it went along the lines of if I jumped up the earth jumps away from me. |
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I'm not sure the Earth is actually moving down and up when you jump up and down. The effect of jumping up and down would rather send seismic waves from the spot where you are jumping. Seismic waves spread at 8 km/h, so that it can take an hour to reach the other side of the Earth.
Mt Fuji would eventually move, but rather like a cork on water.
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #48 on: Nov 5th, 2004, 12:57am » |
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on Nov 4th, 2004, 1:03am, towr wrote:
That should move the whole earth (including anything on it)
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n so we dont want that to be the case, earth is already moving and so is almost everything on it ... always anyways so anything that appear stationary is infact stationary because we are not moving wrt to it ... so to move it, or ourselves, move either the object or yourself and you would move it ...
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Re: Mount Fuji
« Reply #49 on: Nov 9th, 2004, 9:14pm » |
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coolnfundu is correct. Movement is with respect to an observer. If I choose myself as the observer I am moving Mt. Fuji with respect to, the job is trivial. But I must "humbly" point out that coolnfundu is not first with this observation:
on Nov 6th, 2003, 5:32pm, Icarus wrote:It's easy to move Mount Fuji. How far do you want it moved? Just for demonstration, let's say a simple 5 feet.
[gets up, walks across office.]
There you go. Mount Fuji, and the rest of the universe just moved 5 feet. Anything else I can do for you? |
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