bighippo4 
Apr 04, 2002
| Very nice teaser. Had me stumped! |
emilymonkeymaia
Apr 12, 2002
| This is one that you ethier know it or you don't. |
Mogmatt16  
Apr 15, 2002
| I got it but for the wrong reasons. I said you don't know if Earth will be that stable and comfortable for a year so it would be safer on venus. probaly a better view, too. |
shorty4826
Apr 15, 2002
| What happens if they're talking about earth time? |
supanova_gurl
Apr 26, 2002
| i agree with emilymonkeymaia... you either know it, or you don't |
peterbradfor
May 04, 2002
| I would choose to stay for a day. After 1 Venusian year I would claim my 2 million, then a few Earth days later claim an extra million for staying 1 day! |
cajan
May 04, 2002
| I'm sorry but the correct answer is a day. If you are in a transparent capsule that means you will be affected by the elements. You are so much closer to the sun that at 70 degrees F with the direct rays from the sun you will fry in less time.
especially since the capsule could act like a greemhouse using the moisture from your body. No thanks. I'll stay a day and take the money thank you. |
Veener325
May 04, 2002
| but cajan...they explained before that a day on venus is longer than a year...so if you stayed for a day you would be "frying" longer. BTW...very good riddle. I didn't know that. I guessed at what to do. |
sckgrlchckvcious
May 04, 2002
| hey wow, that one was good. I had no idea, I just said stay a year because you can't really be on venus cuz there's no medium for the sound to travel through. But then again, if you're on a planet, the atmosphere might provide one.....I don't know, its 10 0 pm and I'm going to sleep now. Goodbye |
sarobot
May 06, 2002
| Now I get it. |
jimmh22
May 07, 2002
| I'm sorry to take the wind out of everybody's sails. You would suffocate in that "small transparent capsule", as soon as all of the available oxygen is converted to carbon dioxide. However, I did enjoy the riddle. |
Tanya0
May 11, 2002
| not bad but I got it rather quickly |
SandPman
May 12, 2002
| An interesting one - thanks. |
therattt
May 17, 2002
| venus' axis is not tangential to the sun, therefore it is possible to be in complete darkness infinitely (or complete light), depending on where your capsule was placed. not many people could survive utter darkness for 250+ earth days, due to altered vitamin D metabolism and therefore malnutrition. |
bret
May 17, 2002
| therattt-not to mention leprosy |
O_wise_one
May 19, 2002
| I've heard that one before, but if I hadn't, I never would have even THOUGHT of that answer! |
frank0001h  
May 30, 2002
| Either way, Venus is dead boring and your capsule would probably melt before even your air ran out. No mention was made of supplying you with that! |
MrBean
Jun 01, 2002
| Excellent! I din't think of it that way. When does the next ship leave? |
starlust
Jun 05, 2002
| I need to pay more attention in science. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. oh no, there I go again |
~superhack~
Jun 11, 2002
| I really liked this teaser. |
odcsurferchick
Jun 12, 2002
| yeah! mad-ade hasnt come yet |
AbdulAziz
Jun 16, 2002
| You know actually you cant even stay for a day alive. You will have food and water but in a transparent capsule you will melt in few hours.
right?
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im_para_noid
Jun 16, 2002
| you won't melt, it says up in the puzzle that the temperature stays at an even 70 degrees Farenheit |
thick_lil_girl
Jun 17, 2002
| ok i have one question....how the hell did i end up in Venus?? I wanna go home 
Ok now that i have my sanity back, very good teaser  and whats with everyone saying , 'but something would happen, blah blah blah' its only a teaser! It doesnt have to be scientifically exact!!!! ( did i spell that right?:S) |
missie
Jun 17, 2002
| Hey, odcsurferchick, I'm with you all the way! I'm surprised he's not here to yell at this person for plagerism, or correct him that Venus would kill you from the fumes or whatever. |
eduard
Jun 18, 2002
| to shorty 4826: not much,.. don't you think.....duah!!! |
spaghettiistasty
Jun 21, 2002
| You can't breath on venus anyway so your dead in a mannor of minutes what happens if they take you out of the capsule so they don't have to pay you??? huh? |
Jojocranky
Jun 23, 2002
| D@ was v easy n e 1 wiv a brain wud b able 2 work d@ out |
missie
Jun 23, 2002
| Wel den I gess d@ a lot a peepl don't have brains, cuz lot's a peepl didn figure it out. And, that is abusing the english language. I don't think there is a person left in the world who can write oyut "that" ot "you". So, go and sit in a whole. |
missie
Jun 23, 2002
| I meant hole |
einat16 
Jun 26, 2002
| "and what if you get lonley and commit suicide? and what if the people who got you to venus decide to keep you hostage? and what if my gramma had rollerblades?" PEOPLE! Stop being so picky! |
thick_lil_girl
Jun 26, 2002
| einat16 , I agree 100%!! I thought the riddle was great! Why can't you all just read the riddle, decide whether you like ot or not then comment on if if you want? Why do you have to be so picky about it!! |
kool_lil_girl
Jul 02, 2002
| Dear "thick_lil_girl" i think you will know me as we are best friends unless you have fallen out with me for some bizzare reason! now ppls want to complain about it because they have no brains and want to become a new person on the web and would like to have brains so they try to show off how "smart" they are but sowwie ppls it aint workin not 4 me and not 4 me "thick" friend!!!  |
Jasin
Jul 08, 2002
| Very good riddle.........I forgot that a Venus day was longer than a Venus year. Very good riddle again. |
boldgold
Jul 17, 2002
| If I shouldn't let money decide my answer then what about cable TV. I might decide to stay the longer period of a day to watch that cable TV movie that I was waiting for. |
im_para_noid
Jul 17, 2002
| actually, i should have put satellite tv, only because it would have to be a really long cable if it would be on venus |
im_para_noid
Jul 17, 2002
| plus that, and the movie you want to see could probably be seen on earth anytime, seeing as it has to be play on earth, then it gets transmitted to venus, it would be on earth first. |
zangel3000
Jul 29, 2002
| Funny, starlust! |
mad-ade
Aug 16, 2002
| Posted by missie Jun 17, 2002
Hey, odcsurferchick, I'm with you all the way! I'm surprised he's not here to yell at this person for plagerism, or correct him that Venus would kill you from the fumes or whatever........
Surely you can't mean me missie, I am a reformed character.
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doggyxp
Aug 22, 2002
| im sorry, but that was too easy. I learned that from watching Magic School Bus as a five year old. Sorry. Nice try though. |
angel11
Oct 02, 2002
| Great teaser, but I have a question. How do you get cable TV to Venus? |
CCat20
Oct 06, 2002
| Am I the only one who hasn't read "everything you need to know about science" |
speedyg1000
Nov 17, 2002
| o great odc...now you've lured him here to haunt us all.... |
Gmoney-Gdog
Dec 22, 2002
| i agree with you missie... some people should learn how to spell here? huh? 8^)
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Asbestos
Jan 29, 2003
| The money part was completely unecessary, though. Since you know that you will be in comfort, and you know that a Venus year must be shorter than an Earth year, who wouldn't accept 2 million dollars for less than a year's work, even ignoring whether or not it is longer than a Vesuvian day.
A better way of phraseing the puzzle might have been "You really want to get home! How long should you stay?" Although, then most people would guess that a Vesuvian year is longer than a vesuvian day, simply because it is the less obvious answer. |
jimbo
Mar 02, 2003
| Gee I must be odd or something. I thought it was a great puzzle. Not for one moment did I think that I might bust my kidneys by not going to the toilet for a year or any weird stuff like that. I guessed that it had something to do with Venus's orbit so I looked it up in a book. Now I know that a day on Venus is longer than a year! Cool! |
hermdawg
Apr 04, 2003
| The real teaser is figuring out what kind of capsule can withstand the atmospheric pressure on Venus? |
alfador_yx
May 04, 2003
| Wow I didn't know that. Good one =) |
Fasil
May 04, 2003
| Nothing is said about wether it is a Venus Day or Earth Day.
These teasers suck; someone just learned a fact and makes a teaser out of it, woohoo. |
frankenweoburger
May 04, 2003
| I agree with thik_lil_girl that sometimes people here are too picky, but in this case it's justified. The answer could have been one day because you'd need to use the bathroom, or you'd run out of air, or the capsule would begin to melt. Sometimes it pays to be picky. But you could figure out that all these factors are accounted for and then this makes a great teaser. Personally, I don't have cable t.v., so I'd stay for 2 years anyway. |
Quax
May 05, 2003
| Good point! 225 vs 243 days is pretty comparable, but 365 vs 1 is pretty significant. It appears you have to guess what type of year the voice on the speaker is referring to. Since they've been considerate enough to consider how many degrees Fahrenheit you'd be comfortable at, you can figure the voice could also be using Earth years. So...the gamble then becomes, what kind of year is the voice talking about? |
energizer74
May 04, 2004
| I thought this was a good teaser. I didn't KNOW for sure the answer, but I deduced it by figuring it out that as the planets get farther away from the sun, the year gets longer and the day gets shorter, the weather gets cooler and so on. There were a few "flaws" that other people have mentioned, and I have one minor one to include: I get fed, but in a year, I would grow too big for the box and die of heart failure. Come on people, this is a teaser, it was fun, it was educational, and I will use it on my children for those reasons. |
(user deleted)
May 04, 2004
| I only knew that a day on Mercury was longer than its year. |
Gidgie
May 04, 2004
| Um... sorry, but even before I read all these comments, all I could think was that I'd either suffocate from lack of oxygen, or drown in an ever rising puddle of my own excrement.  Either way, I'd have to say "No, thank you! Now get me back to Earth!"  |
(user deleted)
May 06, 2004
| Hear, hear!!!  |
goldenguide
Jun 22, 2004
| If I stay one year and take 1.5mill,
will you take away cable TV? |
Rashad
Aug 05, 2004
| i found it...
Eay but fun.
High Five!
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brutusnero
Sep 25, 2004
| People, this is a riddle, not a reality show. Lay off all the "technical" crap and give the man credit |
bbbz
Feb 14, 2005
| Ok, this is very good teaser, but there is a fundamental problem with it. 243 days is not the "lenth of day" on Venus. 243 Earth days is its "sidereal rotation period" or the duration for one planetary revolution on its axis in ralation to the stars. A planets "lenth of day" is the duration from sunrise to sunrise (its rotation relative to the sun). For Venus that is only 116.75 days which is less than its orbital period or year of 224.7 days. If you were living on Venus, 116.75 Earth days is what you would observe as the duration of a true "day". The time it takes for the sun to arrive at the same point in the sky as the day before.
For further explanation read on:
Sorry if it gets too technical.
There is nothing wrong with using the "sidereal rotation period" of planets to compare rotational speed with one another. In fact, this the preferred way because it ignores the planets motion around the sun. However, it is not the way one would measure a day if you were actually on the surface of that planet. Take Earth for example, Earth's "sidereal rotational period" is 23 hours 56 minutes. Why is it not exactly 24 hours? Because during that time the Earth has also been revolving around the sun and it now in a different position relative to the sun. So the Earth has to continue to rotate for another 4 minutes until the sun appears at the same point in the sky as it did the day before. We on Earth know our "day" to be exactly 24 hours, because that IS the "lenth of day" on our planet.
Now, on Venus this difference is much more exagerated and its "lenth of day" is LESS than its "sidereal rotation period". This is due to the fact that Venus rotates in "retrograde" (it spins on its axis the opposite direction than that of Earth and most other planets). So as Venus revolves around the sun this motion actually helps to shorten its true "day" rather than lenthen it as it does on Earth. Also Venus's revolves around the sun much more quickly than Earth does. Again, combined with its retrograde spin, this tends to further shorten its "lenth of day" compared to its "sidereal day".
This teaser actually works for the planet Mercury, however. Mercury's "lenth of day" is 175.94 days and its year is only 87.97 days long. So it's day truely is twice as long as its year as observed from the surface. Also Mercury's orbital speed overtakes its rotation speed at some point in its orbit which to an observer on the surface would cause the sun to slowly come to stop in the sky, go backwards for a while, halt, and then continue to tavel on its path across the sky. At certain places on Mercury this could also result it two sunrises and two sunsets in one day. |
charitybabe
May 04, 2005
| wow bbbz you think too much the teasers are supposed to be fun not technical  but its ok because i love everyone |
drea_r_70
May 04, 2005
| Very brilliant thinking  |
woodline
May 04, 2005
| Question....does everyone wake up this long winded? Great teaser! |
Ozymandias
May 04, 2005
| Nice teaser! I enjoyed bot the teaser and bbbz's comments.  |
timilee
May 04, 2005
| Ok, i read all the other posts and allot of you folks are finding little quirks in the logic, but nobody mentioned that:
by the time NASA could design and test a craft that could make it to Venus, withstand the heat factors, provide cable (or dish) TV, store water, store food, store oxygen, deal with the human waste factor, then make it back to earth...it would be many many years from now before NASA (at the rate that they develop new technology) could accomplish this.
Take into account the rate of economic inflation, 2 million bucks then would not as much as 2 hundred bucks now, therefore not worth the time to sit on Venus for a year and miss your family and friends.
But i liked the teaser. It was fun to read all the comments.
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(user deleted)
May 04, 2005
| bbbz - check your math.... You state that the earth must rotate an EXTRA four minutes to complete one day, yet our day is 23 hours 56 minutes, instead of 24hours 4 minutes. |
BrownEyes
May 04, 2005
| Aw shoot! I shoud have known
that awnser. |
je_russell
May 04, 2005
| Judging by the number and content of the comments for this puzzler this one got a lot of people thinking. Of course the riddle mentioned nothing about the air supply which would run out in not renewed over the course of a Vesuvian year. Also we Earthlings are protected by radiation from the Sun by the Van Allen belt-I know Venus has a thick cloud layer but would radiation on the surface of Venus be a problem? Also cable TV has been shown to kill (brain cells). |
live860
May 04, 2005
| Here's a thought. Me being a guy (from Mars), and women being from Venus.... |
donfrench
May 04, 2005
| I would bust out of the capsule as fast as I could because I would know that it was a trick someone was playing on me. Cable on Venus?! Ha! From the Venutian branch of Comcast, maybe? |
lotr321fan
May 04, 2005
| could have made it a little harder! But it was ok!! |
darthforman
May 04, 2005
| neat trick. But nothing was mentioned about whether it would be an earth day and year or a Venus day and year. I would choose nether because my family and friends are more important than a couple of millions of dollars. |
fishpike
May 04, 2005
| How do you expect to get CABLE TV on Venus???  Otherwise, excellent puzzler! |
Chakoteya
May 04, 2005
| Good one, needing extra knowledge. |
mi2mo2tx
May 04, 2005
| I may have gotten it if it were in the trick catagory... but I didn't. Good one! |
Muffintins
May 04, 2005
| That was awesome!! LOVED IT!!! |
quantumpbrane
May 04, 2005
| not bad. took a sec, but i got it.
love love love |
zelaya322
May 04, 2005
| I still don't understand. Can someone explain it so my dumb butt can understand. |
FeaerFactorY666
May 04, 2005
| Very interesting!! Fun, and I learned something. By the way, thaty would be awesome!! |
zelaya322
May 04, 2005
| Nevermind, I forgot that a year can change depending on it's period of oribit. I need to go back to school. |
Icykillamonkie
May 04, 2005
| I liked that one had me stumped a first but I got it. |
lilianxie
May 04, 2005
| Heh..I cant believe i didnt get that! Good teaser anyways. |
brain_dead
May 04, 2005
| good one |
libra0890
May 04, 2005
| oooooooooookkkkkkkkk. lol that was great. lol. i love it.
libra0890 |
brainyng
May 04, 2005
| ya way to tell it off missie
Great teaser i loved it |
aznboi1324
May 04, 2005
| stumped  |
sueintexas
May 05, 2005
| Stumped, and now know something I didn't. educational and fun. |
jannie_delta
May 05, 2005
| You should have said 2 million for 1 day and 1 million for a year. |
(user deleted)
May 05, 2005
| Ok, now if a day on Venus is longer than a year here on earth, and you chose to stay a day for the $1mill, then you would be there a little longer than an earth year, so they suggest you stay 2 yrs and get the $2mill. Are you kidding me. If one day is longer than a year then a year is longer than 365years.....you could never collect you money because you are dead!!!!!!!!! |
saucyangel
May 05, 2005
| and does it look like i care?
um, no. |
saucyangel
May 05, 2005
| by the way, i liked the teaser. i was commenting on all the crappy comments. |
zonahobo
May 07, 2005
| I learned something again I probably once knew, learned more from the bbz short course .. either way I would probably loose the remote and go stark raving nuts .. no internet and no remote! .. I liked this one all in all .. looks like riddles come around about once an earth year .. I though days were getting longer? |
padme
Jul 13, 2005
| hey good one! it's even on jake's favorites!! |
summachick
Jul 22, 2005
| I got it but the reason was wrong...... I wanted 2 million and kindof hought a day was longer than a year |
deepsea
Oct 02, 2005
| `i just left
i dint want to die |
FriarFox
Oct 17, 2005
| I'd rather spend the year on Venus than a year on Jupiter!! |
medster99
Mar 16, 2006
| im not sure if this is what bbbz was saying, but think about it: the time will not be different, you will just have to deal with a longer night and day.
just because one night-day rotation on venus is longer than a one day-night rotation on earth, it will take the same amount of time |
medster99
Mar 16, 2006
| oops terribly sorry i miss-read the answer |
teen_wiz
Mar 25, 2006
| That was cool! |
OldChinaHand
May 04, 2006
| I was going to say ' a cool teaser' but a Venus teaser would be anything but cool...a good thinker for sure. |
coachpisco
May 04, 2006
| I didn't know that...! |
Lexicat12
May 04, 2006
| I actually did know that!! But I'm sure a lot of people didn't and it was very clever.
Nice one. |
tca2
May 04, 2006
| Wait.... Does it raelly matter what a year is on Venus? Because wether your on venus, jupiter, or pluto a year is a year to us earthlings. So the earthlings will be picking us up on thier earth time for a year. Not venus's. (Hopefully) |
alec5216
May 04, 2006
| If they give you perfect conditions why not stay longer???
Then
You stay a year and collect 2 mil then when a day comes around another 1 mil so you end up with 3 mil and perfect life conditions! |
tca2
May 04, 2006
| Besides, you've got everything you need...CABLE TV! |
rachellanders
May 04, 2006
| Does it really matter how long you stay? Both the year and the day are less than one earth year. Knowing that, I would stay for both, winning $3 million! |
lindquist_25
May 04, 2006
| A great piece of info that I'm sure will come in handy! Thanks! |
tulip4u2c_80
May 04, 2006
| Ok... it's a small capsule... wouldn't you get stiff and become immobile... Nice teaser though! |
iteachkids
May 04, 2006
| Not just a good teaser, but a GREAT teaser, judging by the number of brains that got hopping on this!!! |
tca2
May 04, 2006
| I Wonder if you get high speed internet connection..... |
TehIgnored
May 04, 2006
| Yeah....I don't care about the TV...I'd want internet..... |
scallio
May 04, 2006
| Fun teaser... Thanks!
I found myself wondering if they meant a year on Venus or an Earth year. If you were offered 2 million to stay the duration of one Earth year, then you'd have to stick around until one year had passed on Earth... hmmm... still wouldn't mind being paid 2 million for one year's salary!
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tonjawithaj
May 04, 2006
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banzai
May 04, 2006
| I am so sick of people who take everything so seriously. "You forgot the punction mark at the end of the sentence. Bad teaser!" AAAARRRGGHH! Get over it. Thank you for submitting a fine teaser. |
kendra72
May 04, 2006
| Good one!!!! |
lorelle_b
May 04, 2006
| You people are making things so complicated! Lol. Just read the teaser and let it go. It's not like any of this could actually happen, but it's just a scenario. *rolls eyes, laughing about people who look too much into things* |
POPS
May 04, 2006
| Like the old saying(You learn something every day) |
choptlivva
May 04, 2006
| Very clever teaser!! I liked it! (didn't get it though)  I think it's great when a teaser gets SO many people thinking!!
I know I've said this before, but I wish people would see that most of the comments that they object to, are simply the product of critical thinking (which is a good thing)! This site is MEANT to exercise your brain! I don't think most of these comments are trashing the teaser OR it's author! IMO, when a teaser provokes lively discussion, it is all the more fun! |
queenofpiano7
May 04, 2006
| why would I be on Venus?! That would make me SOO angry!  |
sccrclssc5
May 04, 2006
| Very original, and interesting too!
Excellent teaser! |
wizkid
May 04, 2006
| Aw man. I wanted to stay longer. Oh well. I guess I could survive. |
jabdr
May 04, 2006
| I guessed right...for no reason at all. You either know this sort of thing or you don't. |
monkey93
May 04, 2006
| Got me stumped a little, but I got it eventually (5 mins later lol). |
shawneeo
May 04, 2006
| i GUESSED IT! I didn't know the exact reason, but I just figured that the teaser wouldn't be phrased this way unless the answer was the opposite of what seemed reasonable.
I agree with chotliva above, unless someone is putting down someone or using offensive language, I don't mind people poiinting out this that and the other thing. I thought about all those things too, the air, the food and waste, etc. and maybe the author could add all that next time and make it even better. But, people should still thank the writer and respect the work that goes into it, while still politely offering some additional insight or fact. Like I do, LOL!
Thanks for the teaser, its a good one!!!
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lmurray 
May 04, 2006
| ALL YOU PSEUDO INTELLECTUALS SHOULD HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN TO PICK APART THE TEASER. IT WAS "OBVIOUSLY" SUBMITTED TO TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE FACT THAT A VENUSIAN DAY WAS LONGER THAT A VENUSIAN DAY. ACCEPT IT FOR WHAT IT WAS INTENDED, A TEASER! |
lmurray
May 04, 2006
| I MADE A MISTAKE, I MEANT A VENUSIAN DAY WAS LONGER THAT A VENUSIAN YEAR. |
spazzyjazzy93
May 04, 2006
| great teaser!
i actually got it right cuz there was this kid in my math class last year that told everyone little like trivia things everyday and this was one of the things i remembered
turns out you do learn something in math class every once in a while! |
ChrisKing
May 04, 2006
| One of the best teasers I have seen in a while |
thimblenoggin
May 04, 2006
|
I think this teaser needs more comments. |
Qmeister
May 05, 2006
| i had no clue!!! but it was fun |
elshawno
May 05, 2006
| i agree chris... MORE COMMENTS!!!! But anyways, I thought it was well done, and very interesting...
how would they get cable tv up on venus? wouldn't it be too far away from our satellites?
i'm so confused...(although it doesn't take much)... |
vlerma
May 05, 2006
| Great informative teaser. Am not sure how I will ever put this info to work, unlike the teachers in the group, but still enjoyed trying to solve this one. I also found reading the comments interesting, how the posts kind of c hanged in four years, and yet remained the same. |
choptlivva
May 05, 2006
| Imurray, may I remind you that using all caps is considered shouting. |
tdbrsun
May 05, 2006
| I missed it but, since I never knew the correct facts, I would probably be happy with the one million anyway. Good one |
stang99
May 13, 2006
| learnt somthin new from U pal! Would have got it if I knew the rotation thing. By the way, who bothers about other planets when they don't remember everything about their own!!! |
learningchinese
Jun 19, 2006
| 8th or 9th grade science class??? |
calmsavior
Sep 17, 2006
| easy |
vbguy101
Sep 30, 2006
| DARN IT!
I forgot a Venusian day is LONGER than a Venusian year. |
vbguy101
Sep 30, 2006
| THis comment(right here is #13(WHOA!) |
cloughme
May 05, 2007
| Excellent! Get us doing research on the net to find the answer! I love it! |
Lavedaluva
May 05, 2007
| This is a pretty cool teaser! It got me stumped but I soon figured it out. |
grams60
May 05, 2007
| very fun teaser. made me think for a while, but then I took the least money and got the answer. {for the wrong reason} does that mean I get $3,000,000.
lost of fun |
Stupidenator
May 05, 2007
| Since they are deciding when to come get you, they will probably be measuring Earth days and years. If you say one day, the next day they'll come get you. If you say a year, they'll come next year. |
kitty728
May 05, 2007
| Whatever.... I would take the option of receiving 2 million dollars so that when I get back to EARTH I can afford to fill up my GAS TANK.... LOL, T- HEE, HAHA............. |
bradon182001
May 05, 2007
| I chose the right answer on ahim.Does that count? |
bradon182001
May 05, 2007
| OOPS, that should be whim |
auntiesis
May 05, 2007
| I assumed that the day would be longer than the year, otherwise it would not make a very good teaser. And I was right. But I feel so dumb after reading some of the comments. |
nerdyiscool
May 05, 2007
| See, I thought you would stay one day, because they never said they would supply oxygen...
Didn't realise it was a science teaser. Fun though! |
piano_player
May 05, 2007
| i had a feeling it had something to do with time but i wasnt sure. great teaser! |
GobyDude
May 05, 2007
| How was a person supposed to know that you were talking about 'venusian' days/years instead of 'earth' days/years? |
Sahara
May 05, 2007
| First of all, I thought this was a great teaser!
Next, it's a teaser, not a sci-fi novel! It's meant for fun, not to be picked to bits.
And anyway, it does make sense if you use your imagination. Nowhere in the teaser does it say the capsule is from NASA, or anywhere on Earth. It could be made by aliens with a higher intelligence than us! Maybe the aliens have a tranparent, heat/pressure-resistant material that blocks out radiation. And assuming they have a way to get food and water into the capsule, it's not too much of a stretch that they have a way to get excrement out. Even though the teaser doesn't say that you'll be provided with oxygen, it makes sense that you would be, and also that there'd be a way to get carbon dioxide out of the capsule. Oh, and if these aliens have a higher intelligence than we have, it probably wouldn't be too hard for them to pipe in cable tv. lol
Anyway, there's my spiel. I'll be quiet now. |
SpikeZ
May 05, 2007
| It does say it's a Science teaser right up top and "You awake inside a small transparent capsule sitting on the surface of Venus." sort of implies the day/year will be Venusian -- Anyways just have fun with it and stop picking it to pieces yeesh. |
Braingirl07
May 05, 2007
| ok.that was a little weird.......but ok. bye 4 now. i didn't get it right though. |
mercedes13
May 05, 2007
| VERY interesting. going to my favorites. |
luckyduck
May 05, 2007
| Oh wow! This is really wierd that this was the daily teaser because I just learned the whole thing about Venus this week so I was able to get it in a snap! This was fun and if people don't like the teaser they shouldn't waste their time adding comments. |
ejhops
May 05, 2007
| I must thank my grade 9 science teacher for getting this right, but must that bbbz even more for that enlightening explanation. Very cool stuff |
oddrey
May 05, 2007
| That would be really wierd. You have one wild imagination dude.
That was great teaser by the way!! |
Thrashmeister
May 05, 2007
| TECHNICALLY, it's whatever choice I want it to be.
But still, cool teaser. |
j9mattfield
May 05, 2007
| Fun teaser! I was going under the assumption that the capsule would keep out the carbon dioxide and compensate for the 90x pressure. My concern was a lack of bathroom facilities LOL. I cheated and looked up the day and year length of venus, so chose the year. Well done. |
HarryPutter
May 05, 2007
| i almost peed my pants when I heard the answer because I held it in because I wanted to finish the teaser. good one!!!!!!!!!! |
kasiecom2
May 06, 2007
| the tv and internet problems can be solved using satelete transmission similar to the way that SETA uses it to search for life in other parts of the universe. the heat problem can be solved with airt conditioning, food problem with refrigrigation and freezing of the food until needed, electricity problem by using solar panals, the water can be stored in bulk containers. |
Andy_L 
May 06, 2007
| OOOOOOOO ahhhhhh |
teri12265
May 06, 2007
| I never gave this any thought before. Thanks for enlightening me!
I also used to (before I read this teaser) feel that there weren't enough hours in our day, now I think that our 24-hour day is just fine and dandy. Who'd want a day that lasts hundreds of hours??? True, one could get lots of work done, but at times it would drag.
Thanks again. And bbbz's factoid was wonderful.
Take care all! =) |
OwenY
May 18, 2007
| What is 70 degrees fairenhite in celcius? |
Qrystal
Jun 11, 2007
| 70 F = 21.1 C (thanks to my good friend Google, who gave me the answer when I typed: 70 F in C .. gotta love that!)
So many comments, so many, many comments.... if you've read them all and made it down to my comment in one sitting, you have way too much time on your hands, or (like me) are procrastinating doing something else you should be doing. Hah!
Good teaser, btw. I didn't bother looking up the details, but I knew the Venusian "day" was really long... I wasn't sure if it was longer or shorter than its year, or if it was the same (though I guess I probably would've remembered if it was tidally locked). Neat to know, for sure! |
IZZY95
Jan 14, 2008
| FOR BBBZ ITS ONLY A BRAIN TEASER IT DOSEN'T HAVE TO BE EXACTLY RIGHT. |
tahoegiles
May 06, 2010
| A science teaser should be correct and the day on Venus is 117 Earth days. That is from High Noon to High Noon. I'm not picking it apart, just saying, "it should be correct." Good for you bbbz, maybe your explanation was a bit wordy and folks got lost in it, but you are right. |
patiencewithaP
May 06, 2010
| I thought this was a fun teaser...and I got it right! |
sunnybonghits
May 06, 2010
| I would have chosen to stay a year just because of the extra $1 million! |
BookwormAnG
Aug 28, 2011
| I picked one day. Venus is a volcanic planet, even though the lava just oozes out slowly doesn't make it safe. People need fresh air. besides, who wants to live on a planet doing nothing except eat for two years? |
royale-ninja
Jul 24, 2012
| i chose one year,i knew it bfore |
HABS2933
May 06, 2013
| I thought it was an okay teaser. Though I did know that a Venusian year was shorter than a day, I was not aware of its comparison to a day or year on Earth. |
cutebug
May 06, 2013
| If I had a good looking partner beside me, I might stay for 5 years and get 10 million. |
thecatladycac
May 06, 2013
| Cutebug has the right idea!!! |
