Re: [Phys-l] Is something wrong here?????

[chuck britton <cvbritton@mac.com>]

There are no bears of ANY color near the South Pole.

	(In spite of a famous faked 'photo' commissioned and used by 
the Nat. Geo. Soc.)

The puzzle that you present has an infinite number of solutions, all 
located 'near' the North Pole.
.
At 12:22 PM -0800 2/14/12, Christopher M. Gould wrote:
> Besides, does no one remember the old joke:
>
> 	"A man walks a mile north, a mile west, and a mile south,
> 	and finds himself back in camp.  What color is the bear?"
>
> The answer, of coruse, is "white" because it's a polar bear.  The man
> started from the South Pole where EVERY direction is north, and walking
> west meant that he never got further than a mile from the South Pole
> before turning south.