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Nique
11-22-2011, 03:46 AM
I'd like to invite you, my panel of imaginators (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clips/p003h624/mitchell_webb_mitchell_and_webb_with_two_velcro_ca ts_fighting_imagine_that/), to imagine things and then describe them!

Our first question: Can you imagine a new color?
Grandmaster_Skweeb
11-22-2011, 04:00 AM
I can imagine the color out of space.
Amake
11-22-2011, 05:51 AM
#GGGGGG

That's the code for either infrared or ultraviolet, hard to tell which.

Anyway. Picture the color red and all the emotional cues and associations and memories it might have for you. Multiply that with all the colors you know, and then imagine life without any of it. If you're colorblind, I imagine you'll still have all those feelings and stuff, just not the colors to immediately and effortlessly concentrate it in those symbols. Yes, I think the value of colors is primarily symbolic.

Knowing this, it's easy to go in the opposite direction. Picture the entire electromagnetic spectrum, which is like billions of times larger than the spectrum of visible light. Picture it filled with symbols as immediate and universal as the color red, but maybe even more potent. Countless aggregates of feelings we can barely even dream of expressing.

Now try imagining something hard. A motion, let's say an ice cream shaped wave motion. That is a birch tree's shadow. Invisible to the naked eye. With teeth. Which sounds like frankincense smells. And you owe it money.
Archbio
11-22-2011, 05:57 AM
I can't imagine I'd borrow money from something with teeth.
Krylo
11-22-2011, 06:05 AM
I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure all wavelengths of light have been pretty well figured. Certainly all the visible ones at least.
Amake
11-22-2011, 06:06 AM
Don't borrow money from babies, man. That's uncool.
Krylo
11-22-2011, 06:07 AM
But babies give the best interest rates.
Professor Smarmiarty
11-22-2011, 06:07 AM
I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure all wavelengths of light have been pretty well figured. Certainly all the visible ones at least.

402.4 nm is my favourite.
Krylo
11-22-2011, 06:09 AM
That is a good one, but I'm more fond of 703.5.
Nique
11-22-2011, 09:39 AM
So that's a 'no' for Krylo.

Next question - Can you imagine a moon the size of a cheeseburger?
Professor Smarmiarty
11-22-2011, 09:44 AM
It would be too small to classify as a moon.
Nique
11-22-2011, 09:47 AM
Well, for example, I can imagine a a moon rock that's been carved into the shape and size of a cheeseburger with bacon, or a moon that's been shrunk by a mad scientist and now orbits around a planet the size of a pizza.
phil_
11-22-2011, 09:51 AM
Nique, you're not very good at playing nonsense. I don't think you'd do well in Wonderland.
Nique
11-22-2011, 10:02 AM
LESS ASS-BEING, MORE ASS-IMAGINING!
lazy man
11-22-2011, 10:18 AM
You know, all this imagining stuff is reminding me of this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHnr72AsgIU). And that song right there is awesome.
Seil
11-22-2011, 12:19 PM
Get out of here get out and leave me alone!
Ecks
11-22-2011, 03:14 PM
NO SEIL. YOU SHUT THE HELL UP AND LEAVE EVERYONE ELSE ALONE, WHAT IS EVEN YOUR PROBLEM, PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO IMAGINATE THINGS IN THIS THREAD AND YOU ARE SHITTING MILES OF SAD SNAKE TO CHOKE US ALL TO DEATH WITH.
akaSM
11-22-2011, 09:23 PM
Hey, I could use that moon to add more cheese to the burger :3
TopHatAssassin
11-22-2011, 09:48 PM
LESS ASS-BEING, MORE ASS-IMAGINING!

I thought we were supposed to be imagining a moon the size of a cheeseburger.

I can indeed do this, and I would place said moon on my desk so that I may admire it whilst drafting a story. Perhaps one about that very moon. How did it get into this predicament in the first place? Can it ever go back? What sorts of adventures would it go on?

Could I finally see its face up close? And would it have a conversation with me using said face?
Krylo
11-22-2011, 09:49 PM
If it's on your desk, it's not a moon. It's a rock.

Maybe if it orbited your desk.
Seil
11-22-2011, 11:30 PM
NO SEIL. YOU SHUT THE HELL UP AND LEAVE EVERYONE ELSE ALONE, WHAT IS EVEN YOUR PROBLEM, PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO IMAGINATE THINGS IN THIS THREAD AND YOU ARE SHITTING MILES OF SAD SNAKE TO CHOKE US ALL TO DEATH WITH.

Bong.
Nique
11-23-2011, 10:18 AM
Seil can imagine the sound that a bell makes if it were made out of a beef wellington.
Seil
11-23-2011, 11:27 AM
An inverse beef wellington.
Nique
11-24-2011, 04:23 AM
Because it's late and I can't sleep, for our next question:

Can you imagine a universe where time moves backwards and effect precedes cause, and Seil lives there maybe? What is he doing there? How does he smell?
Professor Smarmiarty
11-24-2011, 04:35 AM
A bell made out of beef wellington wouldn't ring. Beef wellington doesn't have the right acoustical properties.