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User since 2006
Posts: 2715

20 Nov. 2009

A motorist is driving all healights switched off on a country road. There is no road lighting and no moon. All of a sudden a black-dressed person crosses the road in front of the car. The driver applies the brakes and so doesn't knock the crossing person over.
Please tell me how the driver could know there was someone crossing the road in front of his car.

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Fugendichter
User since 2008
Posts: 588
30 Nov. 2009

He was certainly blind. So he felt the obstacle with other senses.
He was certainly blind. So he felt the obstacle with other senses.
AhQ ['a: kiu]
User since 2006
Posts: 2715
2 Dec. 2009

You're full of imagination, Rike. I hadn't thought that way. Someone else rather narrow-minded had told me it was just daylight. Thank you for broadening my outlook.
You're full of imagination, Rike. I hadn't thought that way. Someone else rather narrow-minded had told me it was just daylight. Thank you for broadening my outlook.
Fugendichter
User since 2008
Posts: 588
6 Dec. 2009

Do you mean headlights, Sandy?
After reflecting the problem days and nights, I agree with the rather narrow-minded!
Do you mean headlights, Sandy? After reflecting the problem days and nights, I agree with the rather narrow-minded!
AhQ ['a: kiu]
User since 2006
Posts: 2715
11 Dec. 2009

Oh yeah, Arcor!
I hadn't noticed that a 'd' had slipped off my head, leaving me cerebrally challenged. Without that 'd' I was unable to see it was d-light, say, daylight.
Oh yeah, Arcor! I hadn't noticed that a 'd' had slipped off my head, leaving me cerebrally challenged. Without that 'd' I was unable to see it was d-light, say, daylight.
duberic
User since 2009
Posts: 1
15 Dec. 2009

You have never said that your storie was in day or night..."no moon"
You have never said that your storie was in day or night..."no moon"
AhQ ['a: kiu]
User since 2006
Posts: 2715
16 Dec. 2009

As long as I could notice it, duberic, sometimes the moon crosses my sky during the day, even though its shining is less bright. But anyway the moon wasn't shining at all that very day.
As long as I could notice it, duberic, sometimes the moon crosses my sky during the day, even though its shining is less bright. But anyway the moon wasn't shining at all that very day.
Freddie
User since 2009
Posts: 49
29 Dec. 2009

In two days we'll have an eclipse of the moon, which could be of some interst for you
In two days we'll have an eclipse of the moon, which could be of some interst for you
Fugendichter
User since 2008
Posts: 588
29 Dec. 2009

and fourteen days after it, we'll have a solar eclipse, won't we?
and fourteen days after it, we'll have a solar eclipse, won't we?
AhQ ['a: kiu]
User since 2006
Posts: 2715
30 Dec. 2009

Oh my God! what astronomers you are!
Oh my God! what astronomers you are!

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