Moving Mount Fuji

[JustJack]

Here's a question I got the other day, and they're asking for the most creative answer possible.

"How would you move Mount Fuji?"

Naturally, your first response is "it's a mountain...you don't move those." :confused: But...if you're still thinking that after I asked for the most creative answer possible...then you're probably a one dimensional foo'.:moon2: So, step out of the box for this one. Be a smartass if you must. :evil:

How would you move Mount Fuji?

[Ben]

I already have. I was on a train watching it and it was moving. I'm also moving it because a piece of it is still in my mind.

Another possibility would be showing it Grave of the Fireflies.

[Eddie G.]

I already have. I was on a train watching it and it was moving. I'm also moving it because a piece of it is still in my mind.

Another possibility would be showing it Grave of the Fireflies.Well beyond that since it is part of the Earth which is in constant movements it is moving. You could move everything around Mt. Fugi half an inch to the left so it seems that the mountain has moved. I could write a said play and perform it, or maybe sing one of U2's 80's songs and hope mountains have emotions. You could just over a long time slowly blow up the mountain, that way it's kind of moving. Man could at this point probably screw with the movement of continental plates or something to move the mountain slightly.

[zmanjz]

Feng Shui master might say that you move it by moving that which it interacts with it.

Change what's around it, and it is no longer where it was.

[EightOh]

I think I'd just ask it.

Politely.

[HumanoidTyphoon]

Smoke and mirrors.

Or if I'm feeling like it a KameHameHa...............What? I can do it.

[Tienshin]

Left eye, right eye, left eye, right eye...

[Salvor]

Mount Fuji... god I had the most traumatizing experience climbing up Mount Fuji. A piece of advice to anyone who dreams of climbing Mount Fuji : don't do it by a rainy night.

huh what was the question again? :D

[Magwheel]

...or maybe sing one of U2's 80's songs and hope mountains have emotionsThe Unforgettable Fire, anwyone? Good stuff (wait... is that because you think they were good in the 80s, or bad? )

I would take the pacifist/laisser-faire/passive/lazy approach, and allow the mountain move itself. Works better with volcanos, but I could, and do, affirm, that everything is in motion, especially big rocks, and as long as I restrain myself from stopping the process, I am, in a manner of speaking, moving the mountain.

However, I would immediately be laughed at by anyone who [edit ISN'T] tricked by my way of putting it. And for good reason ;)

Or, I could bolldoze the eastern half of it, then put the loosed material on the west. There ya go. :D

[SSJPabs]

Definitely Where The Streets Have No Name to move a mountain.

Hmm how would I move Mt. Fuji? I'd probably show it "It's a Wonderful Life" I mean, sure it's cliched now, but whenever anyone sees it for the first time, they must weep.

Projection screen, set it up on a foothill and let 'er rip.

[TimTwoFace]

How would I move the mountain? Easy. Just walk away. Relative to me, it would be moving, yes?

You know I'm right!

-Tim

[Lu775]

Well, a mountain's pretty big, so I'd take a handy dandy pick axe and move it grain by grain. It would take a long time, but at least it would save wear and tear on my back. :anime:

[The Falcon]

i'd summon godzilla who would then venture out of the watery depths that is his home. he would walk up to mount fuji, but on his way there he would run into mothra! OH NO! confused japanese people would run through the streets shouting really bad english phrases which don't match their mouths while miraculously they do not get squished by godzilla. godzilla makes quick work of mothra by dousing it in his flame breath. he then proceeds to mt. fuji, swats it with his massive tail, the mountain crumbles, and he returns to the ocean

Hero

[CookieS]

Claim the land around Fiji to be a new country, such as Canada2. Therefore the mountain as moved to a new country.

[RogueMartian]

I suppose you could just get really wasted...I suppose after that a lot of things that don't normally move would move quite a bit :D

[Mr. Pedro]

I would simply break off a piece of the big rock and walk away with it, technically moving a (very small) portion of the mountain.

[Parallax]

I'd pick it up and move it somewhere else.


Yeah. Beat that.

[sl4]

I'd ask God. According to the commercials, he can do everything except see the cinnamon sparkles in Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal.

[TimTwoFace]

Claim the land around Fuji to be a new country, such as Canada2.
Don't worry my friend, that plan's been in the pipeline for years. ;)

-Tim
(Noo doot aboot it!)

[Roger Smith]

Hmmm.....
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I know dream of mount fuji then move it in your dreams or use hmm a gundam yes a gundam

[Jave]

Buy Mount Fuji and Mount Everest. Rename Mount Fuji as Mount Everest, and rename Mount Everest as Mount Fuji. Not only you moved Mount Fuji but you just moved Mount Everest as well!

[Romanesque]

1) Purchase Mount Fuji with no money down, with my patented technique!
2) Market it as a tourist attraction, by putting small ads in hundreds of newspapers. The more ads you print, the more money you'll make!
3) When the tourists show up, equip them with simple mining equipment, including in the price of their visit.
4) Get paid, as the tourists carry home chunks of the mountain for you!
5) Retire on your new Mountain of CASH!!!

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--Romey

[Elven Moon]

I would use a giant spatula, lather it with Crisco and pour cheese down its sides. Then eat it.

[Chris Wood]

Just hike up to the summit and show your girlfriend a REALLY good time.

[shogunthethird]

the best way to move mount fuji would be with a massive nuclear explosion, the explosion would reduce the mountain to dust and the dust would be spread to the wind, and given that matter cannot be destroyed, merely altered in form the mountain itself would have changed and moved on a molecular level, or for something with less property damage, just wait a few million eons, eventually the tectonic plate Japan rests on will be subducted back into the earth and melted down to its basest elements

but those are all logical, you want a creative answer


I'll ask my friend Faith, because they say faith can move mountains

[Romanesque]

given that matter cannot be destroyed, merely altered in form the mountain itself would have changed and moved on a molecular level

Ahh, but matter can be destroyed... or, rather, converted into energy. That being the principle by which the nuclear bomb would be blowing up the mountain in the first place.

This leads to another approach entirely. What if you could drop an anti-Mount Fuji on top of Mount Fuji? The entire mass of both mountains would be converted into energy (more radiation than any puny nuclear weapon could ever dish out!)... no more mountains! (And potentially reducing the planet to a plasma cloud... that's certainly gotta be some huuuge energy output.)

Of course, this doesn't actually move the original mountain anywhere... it just obliterates it... and it requires finding and moving an anti-Mount Fuji of equal mass into position above the original... but let's not get too technical, now. :p

--Romey

[EightOh]

Don't worry my friend, that plan's been in the pipeline for years. ;)

-Tim
(Noo doot aboot it!)Hai, eh?

Just hike up to the summit and show your girlfriend a REALLY good time.If the mountain's a bumpin', we're up there humpin'.

[RD!]

"So, he and his friends, and his friends' friends, and his friends' friends' friends, and his friends' friends' friends' friends, and some rather less good friends of theirs who happened to own a major... trucking company, put in what is now widely recognized as being the hardest nights' work in history, and sure enough, on the following day, [Mount Fuji] was no longer visible..."

[Magwheel]

"The entire mass of both mountains would be converted into energy" - Romey

I like the end results of your theory, but ... wouldn't anti-matter have anti-mass, and not mass? then what? they cancel out each other's existance? or would it be moved to another dimension, a dimension that is being formed by our experiments with antimatter? Which dimension would then have a Mount Fuji! I bet all the Anti-people are smoking their Anti-drugs and plotting Anti-plots to get us to send all of our mountains to their dimension. Yes, their Anti-dimension. In fact, I bet this thread, nay, Anti-thread!, is a part of it. We been duped! :mad:

Well, at least the mountain is moved.

Strawberry Jam: I thought that sounded a lot loke Douglas Adams, but didn't recognize it from anywhere specific (s'been a while) ... is it Life, the Universe, and Everything?

My second laisser-faire solution: Don't stop time. The mountain is moving through the stream of time. Of course, that's provided that time is a place, which it isn't, but we speak of it as if it is, so... good enough. Or, if that's not quite doing enough, figure out a way to travel through time, and stand on the mountain, and go either back or forward in time, and voila. Because, it is moving through time now, but that doesn't mean we have to be lazy about it. :)

[Proto DUDE]

I'd have Mount Fuji play Superman 64. It would move to get away from the game.

[Romanesque]

I like the end results of your theory, but ... wouldn't anti-matter have anti-mass, and not mass? then what? they cancel out each other's existance? or would it be moved to another dimension, a dimension that is being formed by our experiments with antimatter? Which dimension would then have a Mount Fuji!

Umm... wha'? :p

--Romey

[Magwheel]

you know... anti-matter... has anti-mass.... transfers/transports it's non-anti-counterpart to the anti-dimension upon merging...

...I mean, that's some pretty basic anti-theory . :p

And don't get me going about converting matter to energy, then moving the energy, then converting it back to matter, again. That's not a healthy obsession, even if it would allow one to move Mt. Fuji. Or anything else you like. Cars, for example. You [i]know we could use an alternative fuel source! Ok, I'm done.

[True Noir]

Well, I could chuck off a piece of Mt. Fuji and put it a few ft. away from the mountain and I guess Mt. Fuji would be moved.:sweat:

[shogunthethird]

you know... anti-matter... has anti-mass.... transfers/transports it's non-anti-counterpart to the anti-dimension upon merging...

...I mean, that's some pretty basic anti-theory . :p

And don't get me going about converting matter to energy, then moving the energy, then converting it back to matter, again. That's not a healthy obsession, even if it would allow one to move Mt. Fuji. Or anything else you like. Cars, for example. You [i]know we could use an alternative fuel source! Ok, I'm done.
matter...to energy....back to matter, now if only we could do something about that pesky heisenberg uncertainty principle we might just be on to something here (and they said Star Trek reruns weren't educational)

[Magwheel]

meh, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is only a theory... what do we do with theories we don't like? Ignore them! Or, prove them wrong.

Just like we do with people who say that star trek reruns are not educational ;)

Another solution: Lasers! Use lasers to slice it from the earth, or, bump into it with a big space ship, then get the Enterprise/Voyager/Defiant to use its tractor beam to pick it up!

[Romanesque]

I'm still trying to figure out what Heisenberg has to do with any of this. :p

[OnlyJedi]

I, for one, instead of working out how to move Mount Fuji, would instead ask "why"? After all, there must be some end goal in mind, that moving Mount Fuji is only a part of. Want more sunlight in some area? Setup a field of mirrors. Want to change weather patterns? There could very well be an easier way to get the desired effect. Think its an eyesore from the view in your office? Move to an office on the other side of the building. In short, the point is not just to tackle the problem; tackle the *reason* for the problem in the first place.

[Liger Zero]

Drop a tactical nuke down its throat.

[cowboyardee]

Oh, doggone it, I just moved that stupid thing last week! Make up your mind!

[Mario500]

Leave a painting of Lupin the Third at the very bottom of the mountain. Wait 24+ 1 hour and you'll find out find that there is nothing left but large writing with the words "Sick Pervert, that painting ki....". Not so mysterious, don't y'all think? :D