Elephants and needles.

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25 May 2011, 4:30 pm

You might want to start off small. A swallow would be a good choice because of its size. Only one problem though. African or European?

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25 May 2011, 9:23 pm

robin45 wrote:

Here's an elephant holding a really big needle.

It looks like a caricature of an elephant holding a saw.

I think the artist intended it to look like a hunting knife.

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25 May 2011, 9:24 pm

DNForrest wrote:

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naturalplastic wrote:

Just take a gnat and force it throught the head of needle- measure the heat output- and then multipy the figure you get by the ratio of an elephants mass to the mass of the gnat.

Hmm. I don't think that would be very accurate because the elephant bones would need much more energy to push them though the needle, compared to the equivalent mass of a soft gnat's body.
Unless the elephant is processed to a pulp first, but that's probably cheating. :wink:

The solution: Genetically modified lab rats.

Genetic engineering is the one solution to every problem.

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26 May 2011, 10:17 am

nodice1996 wrote:

robin45 wrote:

Here's an elephant holding a really big needle.

It looks like a caricature of an elephant holding a saw.

I think the artist intended it to look like a hunting knife.

big needle, saw, hunting knife... oh what's the difference?! The main thing to remember is those pachyderms never forgive, or forget.

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26 May 2011, 1:12 pm

I'm confused. If you pre-process the elephant to be a 10,000 kilometre long cylinder with a cross section one square millimetre, then accelerate that to a mere thirtieth of the speed of light, it would pass through the eye of a needle at room temperature.

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26 May 2011, 1:19 pm

^^ Or convert it to elephant gas first. Job done.

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26 May 2011, 1:26 pm

why not liquify it?

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26 May 2011, 1:38 pm

Have you seen the price of elephant blenders? :lol:

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26 May 2011, 1:41 pm

no, have you?

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26 May 2011, 1:46 pm

No, I have not. It was a joke, based on the impracticability of liquidizing an elephant. :wink:

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26 May 2011, 1:48 pm

and i suppose converting an elephant to gas is perfectly practical? :lol:

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26 May 2011, 1:56 pm

No, not really - but possibly a little more practical than feeding a struggling pachyderm into a roaring, high-powered blender.
The elephant could be burned instead and the gas collected. A circle of people with flame throwers should take care of it nicely. :lol:
Or, he ashes could be collected and mixed with water to form elephant paste. It's probably useful for plastering walls too.

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26 May 2011, 2:02 pm

Come get your pachyderm past! Pachyderm paste! Good for plastering walls, filling cracks in your driveway. Only $15 a ton.

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