If....

[FLOTSOM]

   No! you only exist because you think you do.


   

no no no no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you all only exist because I think you do!!!!!!! and from the look of you all i can see justhow twisted my imagination has gotten!!!!!

 

[Meatwad]

IF swallows are migratory, then why cant coconuts be migratory also?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

But how do you know it make a noise when it falls when nobody is around? 

Tape recorder. Problem solved.

[Dragon]

IF swallows are migratory, then why cant coconuts be migratory also?

They are, they sag, er, migrate south with age.



As to the original post; sound is how an ear interprets the vibrations in the surrounding environment.  The tree doesn't make a sound, but it will create vibrations in the air and ground.  If nobody is there to "hear" it, then the answer should be no.

[dedalos]

A tree fell in the woods and nobody was not around.  Dose it make any sounds? 

If a man speaks, and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong? 

[Sol75]

Why do we park on a driveway, drive on a parkway.. and for sure, we dont run, on a runway!?

[curry1]

This is true, It should. The problem here is that one can not provide evidence, as there is no suitable experiment.

Thats a lie you put a camera watching it and when one randomly falls it records the noise when no one is around to hear it.

[minke]

As to the original post; sound is how an ear interprets the vibrations in the surrounding environment.  The tree doesn't make a sound, but it will create vibrations in the air and ground.  If nobody is there to "hear" it, then the answer should be no.

I agree that the tree technically does not make the sound, however the sound vibrations that it creates are still there therefore the sound exists.

[FiLtH]

 We are the data collecters of nature...without us..nothing happens.

[VonMessa]

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Oops, Ded already beat me to it....

[DREDger]

No, it does not make a sound.  It does compress the air which are interpreted as sound only if someone or something is there to hear it.

Now if a bear is there, and near the tree as it falls, it would hear it.

..and likely crap in the woods.

[oakranger]

No, it does not make a sound.  It does compress the air which are interpreted as sound only if someone or something is there to hear it.

Now if a bear is there, and near the tree as it falls, it would hear it.

..and likely crap in the woods.

There is a old saying by a Native American tribe in the northwest.  If a needle falls off the tree, the bear will smell it, the deer would hear it and the eagle would see it.