The Boy and His Egg

Careyp74 said:
Oh, now that the whole topic is derailed you offer an intelligent basis for your premise? Too late, if this was a thread on JREF, it would be in the AAH bucket by now
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He tried with all his might to establish that premise from the start, but the snot-nosed devil beautiful child kept interrupting him and asking him to prove it was a bird. He tried and failed, tried and failed. At the end he only returned, like a dog to its vomit, because thought he had come up with a fail-proof method of spelling it out - but no luck.

Surely some of you here have gone through something similar enough that you can relate?
 
Aepervius said:
The solution is easy : clasp both hand of the child over the ufo egg and show him the yolk, then ask him "does that look like robot part to you?".
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Of course not. The baby robot is made of nano-bots, which, when hatched, would have assembled themselves into a baby robot form. But you had to go and squash them before they could assemble, and in this non-organized state, they just happen to resemble an uncooked egg. Prove me wrong!
 
Blackwell said:
Of course not. The baby robot is made of nano-bots, which, when hatched, would have assembled themselves into a baby robot form. But you had to go and squash them before they could assemble, and in this non-organized state, they just happen to resemble an uncooked egg. Prove me wrong!
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See my previous post after the one you quoted, the goal was not to convince the kid, and as somebody said, it was quite evil :).
 
Great story

Two things came to mind while reading the story on what might work as 'proof' without breaking the egg.

Candling, could work to see the shadow of what's inside (depending on thickness of the egg). This will likely just be seen as something is inside of the egg, such as a baby robot.
Magnet, as most kids know robots have some metal parts. This will likely be seen as this robot is not made out of metal or is made of some non-magnetic metal.

Great, now I'll be avoiding omelets till i can figure out whether or not I'll end up as part of the robot insurrection of 2018.
 
Thanks everybody, for the feedback/complements. :) It was fun to write.
 
I can't wait for "The Cad vs The Kid" round two......next time take some help, give me a call and we will sort out this little Pipsqueak Plato.
 
Funny story. :)

I'm surprised this kid didn't respond to you pointing out that robots don't grow the way humans or living creatures do.

I think I might have asked, when he showed me the picture of the robot at Tommy's house, if he had actually personally seen the robot standing there. That might have led to a lively discussion about what kind of evidence he had that any of these robots actually existed, beyond his friends claiming they did.

Good luck!
 
Get back at him by taking a potato out to him and claim it is also a robot egg and force him to disprove it. Revenge - the sweetest emotion. :)
 
jer_j said:
The Boy and His Egg​

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* All people mentioned in this work are fictional. Certain connections to real life people or debates may be made by some, but such interpretation is entirely the responsibility of the reader. Adjectives used to describe the boy are solely those of the narrator, representing HIS feeling about the boy, and are not meant as an insult to any living person.
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This has an all too familiar ring to it. Nominated.

BTW, you still never proved it was a bird...
 
If at all possible, I would have suggested we allow the egg to hatch naturally so that we could both learn something.


M.
 
RoboTimbo said:
Did the boy claim to be a scientist?
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Yes... But when pressed for details he said it didn't matter. He laughed condescendingly at the idea anyone would wonder about his credentials, and insisted that the narrator drop the whole thing and judge the the baby robot hypothesis on its own (cough, cough) merits.

He then reiterated the fact that the burden of proof was on the narrator for claiming the egg contained a bird, denied half the claims he'd made earlier, and blamed the narrator for bringing the whole thing up.

The narrator ran back into his house and locked the door, wondering whether the child even cared about whether or not the egg contained a robot. Even a coherent but illogical discussion would have been nice - but instead the boy had lowered himself to making and retracting/denying the existence of various random claims so quickly that it became clear he was purposefully wasting the narrator's time.

Does that answer your question?
 
jer_j said:
Yes... But when pressed for details he said it didn't matter. He laughed condescendingly at the idea anyone would wonder about his credentials, and insisted that the narrator drop the whole thing and judge the the baby robot hypothesis on its own (cough, cough) merits.

He then reiterated the fact that the burden of proof was on the narrator for claiming the egg contained a bird, denied half the claims he'd made earlier, and blamed the narrator for bringing the whole thing up.

The narrator ran back into his house and locked the door, wondering whether the child even cared about whether or not the egg contained a robot. Even a coherent but illogical discussion would have been nice - but instead the boy had lowered himself to making and retracting/denying the existence of various random claims so quickly that it became clear he was purposefully wasting the narrator's time.

Does that answer your question?
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Yes, but I'm sure I'll have another one in the future.
 
Moochie said:
If at all possible, I would have suggested we allow the egg to hatch naturally so that we could both learn something.
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Good point. In the same way, I suggest that we wait for aliens to land on the White House lawn. That too would be a very educational experience. :)

Of course one of the limits of this story's analogy is that an egg is bound to hatch (unless a child takes it out of its nest:yikes:), whereas there's no set timeline for the UFO question to be settled.
 
RoboTimbo said:
Yes, but I'm sure I'll have another one in the future.
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No doubt. This has been an endless fount of questions, the least of which has been the actual topic at hand. Which is why I can only suggest that you all run - don't walk - at the sight of children bearing robot eggs. :D
 
It seems the boy still thinks that the baby robot is a more plausible theory. Why? Because a local ordinance forbids exotic birds as pets. :hb:
 
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