Receptive and innovation test

[rlortie]

Following the "Assuming Bessler did it" thread and its last 5 posts as of this writing, brought the following test to my mind.

You are handed a teaspoon, coffee cup and a bucket. You are told to go empty a full bathtub of water. What do you do?

Ralph

[Stewart]

Pull the plug and then sit on the upturned bucket while drinking a cup of tea as you watch the water disappear down the plug hole. (The teaspoon is for tapping out your favourite tune on the side of the bath).

Stewart

[rlortie]

Stewart,

Darn you, you spoiled the fun too soon.

I like your reply and my hat is off to you!

Ralph

[Fletcher]

Step very gently into that nice hot bath. Sit down very carefully. At 6'5" & 260 the bath will pretty much empty of its own accord. Relax ... slurp a nice cognac, maybe smoke a good cigar. Save the coffee cup & spoon for after & when finished use the bucket to collect my toys.

[ken_behrendt]

Here's my answer:

Figure out a way to convert the spoon, cup, and bucket into a working PM gravity wheel. Then build an Archimedean screw and use the gravity wheel to power it to then empty the tub!

Well, that's how Bessler could have done it...

ken

[underdog]

I would handle it right back to the next dummy
DOUH!!; there is no more dummies!??..
Oh ,what heck!.. I WILL "SPOON IT OUT", MYSELF, THEN!!!!!.....

[ME]

1. Do not try to bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. That there is no spoon. Then you will see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself...
2. Breaking the coffee cup, makes the cup no longer a cup, but the coffee is still coffee....
3. There's a hole in the bucket, it's a black hole, it's a black hole, there's a hole in the bucket, and it suck up the bath..tub.