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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Free Jole!

A riddle: suppose you are a space traveler, and are traveling through galaxies far, far away. But one day, your spaceship crashes on an unknown planet. As you come out of the wreckage of the spacecraft, you find yourself in an island full of fruits. The fruits are all very kind and speak many different languages found on Earth, like English, Swahili, Cantonese, and Telugu, so you can quickly get all kinds of information from them on how to survive on the planet. They don't drink water, eat food, or photosynthesize, but get all of their energy via a Bluetooth-like wireless charging mechanism. The source of the energy is a giant solar panel that the ancestors of the fruits built. The planet has three stars close to it, so there is always plenty of solar energy to keep the panel charged. The fruits all have a problem of motility though. They have to stay close to the solar panel to get the energy, and also they don't have legs or feet. But the fruits are very sad, because they want to explore the rest of their planet, and have no way to see it! How can the fruits' problem be solved?

2 comments:

Evan Apel said...

I don't know how their problems could be solved, but I want to visit this planet. I'll make sure not to bring any orange juice, though.

LlamajitKaur said...

Heheh - perhaps these are eternal fruits that have no concept of death, and therefore no concept of orange juice.