You Know Don't You?

[Perseus]

You do know the Engineer's answer to question is the glass half full or half empty?

 

[LucasM]

More beer.

 

[Chimera]

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I just know my own response, and that's "The glass isn't either, it's just twice as large as it should be."
Or "It's poisoned."
Depends on my mood.
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[grey matters]

Wouldn't it be to engineer a better glass?

 

[Waterstiller]

Chimera, that was funny.

 

[01010]

I never understood this question. Surely it depends on the context. If you are drinking from the glass it is half empty. If you are filling it up half full. If you stumble on the glass then it's just half a glass of liquid.

 

[Snail]

The engineer would say that the glass is twice as tall as it needs to be and would design a better glass.

I, personally, always answer that the glass is "only half full" because it is the optimistic answer with a pessimistic twist.

 

[Dissident]

The glass is always completely full, in that case the bottom half with water, the upper half with air.

 

[figaro_black]

Wouldn't it depend on if it was full from the beginning? I mean, if I've just drunk half a glass of water, the glass will be half empty. If I just filled it halfway, it will be half full.

 

[Dissident]

I never understood this question. Surely it depends on the context. If you are drinking from the glass it is half empty. If you are filling it up half full. If you stumble on the glass then it's just half a glass of liquid.

Wouldn't it depend on if it was full from the beginning? I mean, if I've just drunk half a glass of water, the glass will be half empty. If I just filled it halfway, it will be half full.

And... WE HAVE A COUPLE!!

 

[EloquentBohemian]

...is the glass half full or half empty?

I ordered a cheeseburger....

 

[01010]

And... WE HAVE A COUPLE!!

I knew I couldn't be the only one.

Oh yeah, and I have an answer for how long is a piece of string too. Twice as long as half the length. I love throwing that one out when people ask me that.

 

[Anticitizen]

The glass is at 50% capacity.

 

[Duty]

I give this thread an A+.

And to contribute:

Full or empty depends on the Wittgensteinian language game that we are playing at the time we assert the proposition, "The glass is half X."

 

[Perseus]

I got the worng answer. I said it was half full or air and half full of liquid.

The correct answer is "Does it move?" or something along those lines.

They then did a spontaneous rendition of the "Engineer's Song".

 

[Anticitizen]

 

[Ermine]

Here are a few ways I'd answer that.

It's 200 mL.
Well, it's just the size of the glass not the water...
Half of its capacity is occupied.
Why can't we have lemonade?
I'm thirsty.

 

[Decaf]

You can only say that a glass is at a particular volume if the liquid has been super saturated. A glass filled halfway up with tap water is in fact less than half full because you can still dissolve a set amount of another material in it without changing the level of that line.

THEN you have to take into account that given enough time the water will actually leak through the glass (granted we're talking huge amounts of time) which brings up the question of how long the water has been in the glass. How thick is the glass? How much surface area of the glass is exposed to water? How much atmospheric pressure is exerted on the top of the water and how much pressure is exerted on the walls of the glass by the water?

THEN you have to calculate the humidity of the environment around the glass to determine its rate of evaporation, and under certain circumstances condensation. Does the water condensed on the outside of the glass count?

This is fun

 

[EloquentBohemian]

Noooo...

brain hurt

synapses commiting hari-kari...


must reach t.v....


watch....





trailer park boys...

 

[Agent Intellect]

didn't we already have this question somewhere? because i'm pretty sure i answered that its half full of water... and chlorine, microorganisms, plastic, and medical residue.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Volume, Water
V = W/2
therefore
2xV = W

 

[EloquentBohemian]

There is no glass.


There is only Spoon...

 

[shadowmouse]

Spoon = Glass via molecular structure alteration.

 

[Jesin]

You can only say that a glass is at a particular volume if the liquid has been super saturated [...]

That post was brilliant. I wonder if I should send that to my chemistry teacher.

"What is the sound of one hand clapping?" is another fun one. I'll give my answer to that one after some of you have given your answers.