There Are No Stupid Questions

[brian64]

If anyone would know, Google would.

Except they only give you the results they want you to see.

 

[brian64]

I told the customs officer that, technically, that tin of Plum Pudding was mostly just empty space, so I shouldn’t have to pay the full duty.

Now that is brilliant. They should have let you go duty-free just for the originality of your protest.

 

[Casual]

Now that is brilliant. They should have let you go duty-free just for the originality of your protest.

You’d think! We need more physics dropouts as customs officers.

It won’t even help if you tell them that you’re not sure if there’s tobacco in the tin until you open it and collapse the wave function. They charge you just the same.

 

[lawdawg]

Does anyone know where I put my tin of Exotic Passion?

I wanted to try it now....


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I think the whole "there are no stupid questions" thing is really more of a guideline than a rule

 

[diamondback]

I hate to be "that guy" but quantum mechanics does not imply other possibilities.

It does not make sense to apply quantum mechanics to the macroscopic world. Most of what you hear about quantum mechanics is just talk and falls more under the realm of "speculation" since we still don't fully understand many of the implications, many of which are likely just mathematical curiosities and don't exist in the real world (or at least in the macroscopic world).

Also, and owing to the fact that I'm a Copenhagen Interpretation kind of guy, I believe that act of finding, or seeing, said unaccounted for tin would cause the various wave states of the tin to collapse to the outcome of the tin being where you are seeing it.

Ban him!

 

[brian64]

Actually, "Exotic Passion" sounds suspiciously like the blend someone posted about the other day saying their Grandfather tossed it out in the yard...or something like that.

 

[shanez]

You’d think! We need more physics dropouts as customs officers.

It won’t even help if you tell them that you’re not sure if there’s tobacco in the tin until you open it and collapse the wave function. They charge you just the same.

Since they charge by weight what we need to do is figure out how to superheat the air that makes up the empty space without damaging the tobacco or the tin. Essentially turn it into a hot air balloon. 50gr tin now weighs 5gr and voila, ten for the price of one.

 

[shanez]

Ban him!

I believe I just posted a way to save us all a ton of money (without switching our car insurance), thus redeeming myself...I hope.

 

[lawdawg]

I'm not sure of the eff


Since they charge by weight what we need to do is figure out how to superheat the air that makes up the empty space without damaging the tobacco or the tin. Essentially turn it into a hot air balloon. 50gr tin now weighs 5gr and voila, ten for the price of one.

Pressurizing the tins with helium might be a good alternative.

 

[shanez]

Pressurizing the tins with helium might be a good alternative.

Just don't use hydrogen. You might end up with a huge manatee situation...

 

[alaskanpiper]

From lost tobacco to quantum physics and customs loopholes in a mere 30 replies. I love this place. Don't ever take the medication pipesmagazine. You were born this way and you are beautiful just how you are.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Just don't use hydrogen. You might end up with a huge manatee situation...

You know what they say: "Nothing ruins a good day like a huge manatee situation."

 

[shanez]

You know what they say: "Nothing ruins a good day like a huge manatee situation."

 

[dmcmtk]

Forget QM, I can‘t even use plain old nuclear physics in my pipe smoking. I told the customs officer that, technically, that tin of Plum Pudding was mostly just empty space, so I shouldn’t have to pay the full duty. I was not successful. He didn’t even know who Feynman was.

Surely you must be joking!

 

[shanez]

Surely you must be joking!

I see what you did there..

 

[shanez]

Except they only give you the results they want you to see.

Gentlemen, I give you: Duck, Duck, Go!

 

[saintpeter]

 

[brian64]

"Nothing ruins a good day like a huge manatee situation."

 

[rmpeeps]

Actually, "Exotic Passion" sounds suspiciously like the blend someone posted about the other day saying their Grandfather tossed it out in the yard...or something like that.

Grandpa only does that when he thinks nobody’s watching.
Move along...

 

[mso489]

There has to be an exotic passion joke in here somewhere.