OT Sphere of Knowledge

It's a piece of pipe.

Jack G.

A pipe piece? Or a peace pipe?

----- You have a cylindrical piece of hard pipe 6 inches long with an inside diameter of 6 inches. You place the pipe on a table and with your hand you insert a 3 inch brittle sphere on the right end of the pipe. You repeat the same procedure on the left end of the pipe. Can you push so both come out the other end? Carl Hirsh of CT. submitted this question to Marylyn Savant. Supposedly the most intelligent woman in the world. She's known to not back down.

How the f... can one push the ball through the table in either direction?

e=2E

You want to ask Marylyn Savant if 3+3 =3D 6?

That's what she said.

That's what she said.

I have something hard and cylindrical, if not somewhat longer than 6 inches.....

That's what she said.

------------------------ There's no time better than now to call this off. I discovered what was printed in her column differs from the online version. I want to thank those of you who tried in good spirit.

That's NOT what she said.

Why can't one sphere be pushed to the left and the other pushed to the right, letting the spheres pass one another inside the cylinder without causing either to crash and break, as would happen if one sphere passed over the other.