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(Message started by: alien2 on Sep 1^st, 2016, 8:20am)

Title: Nature in reverse
Post by alien2 on Sep 1^st, 2016, 8:20am

Prove that an apple can enter the body of a worm.

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by JiNbOtAk on Sep 1^st, 2016, 6:36pm

The [hide]whole[/hide] apple?

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by alien2 on Sep 2^nd, 2016, 12:33am

Nope. Were you hinting at something? As far as I know no worm can [hide]eat an entire apple regardless of a long time period. Don't know much about worms though except that 1 decagram of myelin can't be extracted from 4 tons of earth worms.[/hide]

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by alien2 on Sep 8^th, 2016, 8:38am

Consider [hide]semantics[/hide].

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by dudiobugtron on Sep 8^th, 2016, 1:39pm

A [hide]sand[/hide] worm?

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by alien2 on Sep 8^th, 2016, 11:01pm

No. If you're referring to fictional giant sandworms the answer is definitely no.

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by dudiobugtron on Sep 9^th, 2016, 2:42am

The body of a worm is a long tube.
An apple can enter a long tube.
Therefore an apple can enter the body of a worm.

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by alien2 on Sep 9^th, 2016, 9:54am

Not bad. I guess sometimes I have a retrograde way of thinking. I had something more common and realistic in mind, that is to say, there's nothing unusual about the intended answer.

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by rloginunix on Sep 9^th, 2016, 10:09am

I suppose in this case "an apple" is not equal to "entire apple" - just a tiny amount of "apple matter" that a worm is capable of biting off and consuming?

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by alien2 on Sep 9^th, 2016, 10:31am

Nice try. I was actually thinking that this darn worm ate a whole apple naturally w/o the pip. I repeat. I am not talking about fictional sandworm.

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by AkashM on Sep 10^th, 2016, 10:47am

Consider[hide]apple made up of atoms ,and worm eats food made up of atoms.hence atoms of apple enters worm and hence the apple.(apple can change intoworms food through recycleing of nature)[/hide]
[hide]I name everything the worm eats as apple.[/hide]
[hide]apple gets arose from seeds. And Some mad scientist put it in worm[/hide]

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by alien2 on Sep 10^th, 2016, 12:19pm

You're astray.

The clue: [hide]This particular worm is not what you would expect it to be.[/hide]

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by dudiobugtron on Sep 10^th, 2016, 4:40pm

Is it a[hide]n Apple computer, and a 'worm' virus?[/hide]

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by AkashM on Sep 10^th, 2016, 8:15pm

Worm=[hide]informal old-fashioned an unpleasant person who does not deserve respect:
Don't be such a worm. You don't have to lie to me.[/hide]
Then
[hide]He can eat it like normal person and apple can enter the body.Thanks for your hint[/hide]

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by alien2 on Sep 11^th, 2016, 1:33am

You win. I myself was thinking of [hide]a surname[/hide].

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by dudiobugtron on Sep 11^th, 2016, 2:08am

on 09/11/16 at 01:33:05, alien2 wrote:

You win. I myself was thinking of [hide]a surname[/hide].

I think perhaps AkashM's answer is slightly more correct, since [hide]a surname[/hide] would generally have [hide]a capital letter[/hide].

Title: Re: Nature in reverse
Post by alien2 on Sep 11^th, 2016, 3:22am

on 09/11/16 at 02:08:03, dudiobugtron wrote:

I think perhaps AkashM's answer is slightly more correct, since [hide]a surname[/hide] would generally have [hide]a capital letter[/hide].

Sure. If you're going to nitpick.