Impossible questions?

Question

I've posted a few questions on a video on my youtube account... and for the sake of it I'm just posting them on here to see what ppl think..

ok these are:

Q1. Do you think that you won't be able to think with out a language?

Q2.. How did the moon get here?

Q3... why does why (Y) have it's place in the alphabet?

Q4... Are we color blind and everything else is a different color.

Q5 ... what started the human race?

Q6...(trick question) What substance is light?

Q7... Do you think we see aliens everyday?

Q8... how did water end up on this planet?

I would like to let you know about two questions.

The alien is actually possible... think about it..
A nerd somewhere said that millions of mini meteorites fall to the earth everyday.
it's possible that alien bacteria could have fallen as well from space to earth... right in front of us without knowing.

The one about the language in the mind...
I really should have put it as...
how do you think you would think without a language.

Animals and babies don't have a language... yet they think very simple.

Answer 1

1. Animals think and they don't have a language. You would probably 'think' by recollecting and digesting visual memory rather than in words.

2. I watched a special on discovery some months ago, astrologists figure it was probably just another piece of rock from the big bang, just like any other thing here. Oh, and the moon isn't a piece of the Earth, It collided with us a few million years ago, and stayed because the earths overwhelming gravity over powered it. that said, the special said that the moon is drifting away from us about one inch a year.

3. Its a symbol that represents a sound we can make, the sound you make when you scrunch your lips in a circle and vibrate your vocal cords.

4. No, I think by biological definition, the color we SEE is automatically the color it IS.

5. Not God

6. Energy?

7. This isn't a matter of 'do i think or do i not think?' i see aliens, it's a matter of 'DO i see aliens or DON'T I?'. The answer is "How should I know?".

8. By chance. All of the matter in the universe is seemingly random in distribution, there is no particular reason any given piece of matter IS where it IS, even god doesn't satisfy the question, because why IS god where he IS, and why does he DO what he DOES?

Answer 2

1. Yes. to think, even if the world doesnt have a language, we, in our own heads, will have a language that only we will understand as induviduals.

2. It may be part of a giant asteroid or disenegrated planet. it travelled through space and was pulled in by the earths gravity.

3. Y has its specific place in th alphabet due to the whims of the man (or woman ) who actually wrote the english alphabet. In truth, there wer many languages before English, so its position could be a simple copy of an ancient language. If you're asking WHY its there, in my opinion, its there because we need to use its phonotics (sound). there are altenatives ('ie'), but we can just assume that the creator of the language was lazy and wanted a shorter alternative to the sound.

4. Colours are based on how the majority sees it. If the world started out with 100 people who see only grey, and only 10 people who see in colour, then grey would be the norm and the colour people would be called colourblind. Currently, people who see in colour are in the majority, so it is considered the norm. Also, it depends which race is dominant and sets the norms, as different species see different colours.

5. That is a deeply scientific and religious question, and im not going to dwell on it. scientifically, we evolved from bacteria, and religiously, we had God.

6. light is th output of an energy source.

7. the word alien is defined by something not normal, or not recorded peviously. As there are many forms of bacteria still unknown to mankind, i think that just looking around you you are (unknowingly) seeing aliens every second.

8. That depends on how the planet came to be. Water is a compound of 2 elements and could have been created when the earth was created, or the elments were pulled seperately into the earths atmosphere (via gravity) and were chemically bonded. they could not have been bonded outside the atmosphere as there is no force of any kind and their charecteristics might be different in space.
Also, the human body is made of water (3/4) so we can assume the cavemen pissed a lot.
These questions are meant to be impossible, and definately live up to the task. I have answered them as far as my assumptions and imagination can take me, as none of these have any links to solid fact. An extremely interesting question, and I would expect you to have some sort of remote idea of how distorted and confusing the world is after reading the numerous answers.

I bid you a good day, and I hope the time i took to write this will be of some benifit to you.

Answer 3

All the people who just answered are dumb. Animals
DO have languages. That's why King Solomon was
able to understand them. Babies also have language
and it is called covert speech, which is reverse language.

1. I think i would be able to think, 'cause how did
Hellen Keller think without anyone teaching her(
she couldnt hear or see). U could use logic.

2. The was a part of earth: a few biilion years
ago when earth was a "hot soup" it was spinning
so rapid that the moon melted away from it.

3. English is derived from other languages.
Other languages had a y alphabet. Some
words are incomplete without it, like:
yes, yo-yo, yell, yack, yogurt...etc

4. Dont get the question.


5. Adam and Eve

6. Light is eletromagnetic energy with a wavelength.

7. No. What would they do on earth?

8. Water was made from hydrogen and oxygen.

Answer 4

Q1: I would probably think in terms of smell/taste, visual memory, and sound memory. It would sure put a damper on interacting with others (of course any interaction with others at all would start language all over again even if it's not spoken).

Q2: The Moon began when the Earth did. How did the Earth get here?

Q3: Because Yellow is a cool word.

Q4: What I see as green may be what you see as red, but we both see the same color, but our may interpret it differently. We've agreed to both call it green though.

Q5: What started the Earth? A chain of events, one following after another started by a single thing.

Q6: Light is both particle and waveform. Simply put it's more than we can quite grasp right now.

Q7: Not everyday.

Q8: See question 2.

Answer 5

1. I think ppl could think in images and ideas, just not words.
2. Big bang, maybe??? It could have come out of the Pacific Ocean...
3. I have no clue about Alphabetical Order, but you meant its, not it's. And Y is different from WHY. WHY has an H sound in it.
4. That's a good question, but when there's no light, everything's black...color is reflected and absorbed light, isn't it?
5. I think primates eventually evolved into humans. If there was such thing as creation, human fossils would have been found alongside the dinosaurs, but they weren't.
6. Light is light, not a substance, does not need to travel through a substance.
7. No, but I do think some are out there, even if they're in another galaxy.
8. Beats me...since water is H2O, maybe some odd combo of hydrogen and oxygen from our atmosphere???

Answer 6

Q1. Language can always be created. I can create my own symbols, assign sounds to them, and take it from there. It is distribution of this language, teaching it, and making it stick that is probably impossible.

Q2. Many theories about this...my favorite is that the moon is a burnt out star that got trapped in our solar system and got bigger with the accumulation of space particles over the course of millions of years. It gets its shine from the reflection of the sun from the ocean to the moon.

Q3. The letters of the alphabet are organized in the order of the most common sounds. The letter "Y" is appropriately placed for how often we depend on that particular sound.

Q4. No...the probability that we are all color blind but see things in the same color in spite of it is much to convenient.

Q5. Easy...the existence of water and air are present on Earth. These two elements are all that is needed for living organisms to exist. Millions of years mutilated and evolutionized these organisms into what are today me and you.

Q6. Light is not a substance.....as it has no substance. Light is the result of a substance....energy!

Q7. No

Q8. It is possible that the earth was not close to the sun at one point and was actually frozen. As it got closer to the sun...the water melted.

Answer 7

Q.1: I do believe that language helps up generate some understanding of the world around us but we would still be able to touch, feel, smell, hear (in other words, rely on our senses) to think without words.

Q.2: Well if you believe in the Big Bang theory, then the answer lies somewhere in there.

Q.3: 'Y' is used like any other letter. Even if on rare occasions, the letter 'y' is needed to construct a word to define certain things.

Q.4: I often think about this and if it's true, then I like our color blindness.

Q.5: Evolution or God.

Q.7: No I don't. If we do, we don't know it and they aren't aliens. Aliens are things we don't see on an every-day basis.

Q.8: Big Bang or God.

Answer 8

Q1. Cave men did it and animals do it.

Q2.. For 25 years, scientists have pondered a theory that the Moon was created when an object the size of Mars crashed into Earth less than 100 million years after the Sun was born, some 4.6 billion years ago. The general idea has been run through the paces and massaged into shape and is now the favored explanation.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/moon_making_010815-1.html


Q3... The history of the alphabet begins in Ancient Egypt, more than a millennium into the history of writing. The first pure alphabet emerged around 2000 BC to represent the language of Semitic workers in Egypt (see Middle Bronze Age alphabets), and was derived from the alphabetic principles of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Most alphabets in the world today either descend directly from this development, for example the Greek and Latin alphabets, or were inspired by its design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet

Q4... NO What colorblindness is:

Color blindness (color vision deficiency) is a condition in which certain colors cannot be distinguished, and is most commonly due to an inherited condition. Red/Green color blindness is by far the most common form, about 99%, and causes problems in distinguishing reds and greens. Another color deficiency Blue/Yellow also exists, but is rare and there is no commonly available test for it.
Depending on just which figures you believe, color blindness seems to occur in about 8% - 12% of males of European origin and about one-half of 1% of females. I did not find any figures for frequency in other races. Total color blindness (seeing in only shades of gray) is extremely rare.
There is no treatment for color blindness, nor is it usually the cause of any significant disability. However, it can be very frustrating for individuals affected by it. Those who are not color blind seem to have the misconception that color blindness means that a color blind person sees only in black and white or shades of gray. While this sort of condition is possible, it is extremely rare. Being color blind does keep one from performing certain jobs and makes others difficult.
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/aboutCB.html

Q5 ... NATURE ...A New Perspective on Race
Consistent physical distinctions between groups of people from different areas, some of which can be readily observed (skin color, average build, etc.) and some of which can not (blood type distribution, etc.) are caused by genetic variation between those groups. Cultures divide people into races based on these physical, ultimately genetic differences.
http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/earthhistory/humanrace.html


Q6... Energy
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/198576/this_substance_called_light.html

Q7... Yes just turn on the TV!http://www.pacificmythology.augury.co.uk/easter/images/aliens/aliens.jpg

Q8... Clouds, Polar ice caps. As soon as we figure out if there is water on Mars then we can figure it all out here.
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMGKA808BE_0.html
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Answer 9

1. The mind would think in pictures.
2. Scientist are not even in completely agreement with that one. I dunno?
3. Why not?
4. No, color is actually the frequenicies in light waves. The visible spectrum begins with the lowest light frequency we can see with the naked eye (Red) to the highest (Violet). There are light wave frequencies that are to low to detect with the naked eye (Radio waves) and to high (Gamma Rays.) Color only exist to living things that have cones and rods in their eye to detect a certain number of light waves. Red is not Red and Blue is not Blue. Red and Blue are a number of light waves. The combination of our brains and the rodes and cones in our eyes is what envokes the sensation of seeing colors. Understand?
5. Evolution. (Very easy answer BTW)
6. Light is not a substance. As it is a massless energy (Photons). Light is electromagnetic radiation, waves, and photons no of which have mass, hence its substanceless.
7. I don`t believe so? Perhaps as you suggest minute alien lifeforms (Bacteria, etc) fell into the Earth`s atmosphere long ago. However, if this is so we would expect these minute lifeforms to be drastically different than the rest we have on Earth. Furthmore we might expect these lifeforms to exist in isolated locations on the earth. I will say that it is definetly possible.
8. Hydrogen is the most abundant of Earths chemical elements. 20.95% of the Earths atmosphere is oxygen. The universal law of gravitation attracted two hydrogen and one oxygen atom together to form a molecule of water. This process duplicated zillons upon zillions of times over brought forth bodies of water.

Answer 10

Q1. I think with my 6 senses, not in language. Q2. Who cares. Q3. Why not? Q4. Because my senses are heightened, I see everything in technicolor. Q5. Aliens playing around with monkey DNA. Q6. Energy waves Q7. Of course. Q8. I have no freakin' idea.