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Student method.
Untranslatable from russian.

Offered by Vlad Berditchevskiy, 2:2426/3190.26


The method of Successive Optical Operations.
Let's take the binocular, tweezers, and a small box. Come to an elephant and look at him in the turned binocular. Using tweezers, pick up the elephant and put it into the box. Then go to the cage, place the box into the cage and look at the elephant in the unturned binocular. That's is.
P.S. This method could be applied for crocodile hunting.

Offered by Teimuraz Abashidze, tga@geocell.com.ge


The Paradoxical method.
Let's catch 6 elephants and free 5 of them.

Offered by Teimuraz Abashidze, tga@geocell.com.ge


The Gravitonic method.
Let's cut the desert from the earth's crust by the perimeter and raise one side, putting the cage to the opposite low side. The elephant due to the law of gravity will fall into the cage.
It should be remarked that the number of elephants could be much more then one.

Offered by Igor Pozdeev, pgar@chat.ru


The method of Psychologic Pressure.
Let's take the desert out of the earth's crust by activating the direct oriented explosives. The blast forse should give the body (i.e. the desert) the first space velocity. Elephant is the earth animal, and it would not like to become a satellite, so it will jump off the desert right into cage (the cage should be placed with the door upward).
Notes:
  1. It may be too late when the elephant dares to jump, so at the end of its flight it could be little crumpled.
  2. The power of the explosives should be strong enought for overcoming the earth's attraction, otherwise the Sakhara desert surface will fall upon some innocent territory.

Offered by Igor Pozdeev, pgar@chat.ru


The Guileful method.
Take the veneer, the hammer and go to Africa, where you should wait for an elephant in the ambush. As soon as it approaches, go out and show yourself to the elephant. When it rushes to you, put the veneer in front of you like a shield. When the elephant's tusks stick in the veneer, bend them down with the hammer. The elephant is all yours!

Offered by Yuri Varivoda, varivoda@lotus.vniigaz.gazprom.ru
Obviously, the method is taken the story "Bengal tiger" by Ostap Vishnya.


The Salesman method.
Let's take something of grey colour, put it into the cage, and say to the customers that is the elephant.

Offered by Vitaly Cooperman, vita@camtek.co.il


The Copy method.

Let's bring two grown-up elephants of different sexes into the cage and leave them alone for some time. The result will be the third (needed) elephant in the cage

Offered by Sergey V.Ushakov, stl_serg@chat.ru


The Complicated Deformation method.
It is enough to project an elephant onto the sheet of paper, and then roll it up. You can even crumple it, and the elephant will not show any resistance.

Offered by Igor Shaposhnik, igor@stealthcomp.com
The elephant was crumpled by john tÙrkoff, thanks.


The Police method.
Take the rabbit, and beat it, until it says it is an elephant.

Offered by Sergejs Roze, Sergejs_Roze@swh-t.lv


Chess method.
Untranslatable from russian.

Offered by Denis Khlebnikov.


Method of Greenery.
Elephants are used to the desert. Upon the decrease in area of the desert to the dimensions of the elephant, it is not difficult to find the elephant.

Offered by Eugene A. Kuznetsov smith@lab.sun.mcst.ru


Method of Evolution.
A primitive method, but very long and unreliable. We take a cage and place it in the middle of the Sahara. We put inside the cage some blue-green algae. After "n" billion years, the result of the natural course of evolution is an elephant. If the desert still exists at this point, then the elephant is from the desert.

Offered by Eugene A. Kuznetsov smith@lab.sun.mcst.ru


Lottery Method.
Every elephant receives a lottery ticket. The prize is redeemable from the clerk in the cage. The winning elephant enters the cage, the cage is closed. Now all that remains is to remove the clerk from the cage.

Offered by Eugene A. Kuznetsov smith@lab.sun.mcst.ru


Method of the Unlucky Elephant.
Development of the elephant-trap idea. We put a broken elephant-trap in the desert. There will always be some elephant that will find a way to get captured in even a broken elephant-trap.

Offered by Eugene A. Kuznetsov smith@lab.sun.mcst.ru


Method of Provocation.
"Well..who's going to make it to the cage faster?"

Offered by Eugene A. Kuznetsov smith@lab.sun.mcst.ru


Method of Building.
Build a cage around the whole desert. The problem is solved upon completion of fence.

Offered by Eugene A. Kuznetsov smith@lab.sun.mcst.ru


Method of fashion.
We announce in the Sahara that in this season everything plaid is in style (note: this is a pun. In russian the word plaid stems from the word cage). As a result, at least one female elephant will appear in the cage.

Offered by Silanty Kr-skoj silanty@dux.ru


Bureaucratic Method.
We make a note in the book for keeping track of caught elephants. If after this there are still doubters, we show them a completed Certificate of Caught Elephant with a stamp from the Sahara Bureau of Elephant Hunting and receipts regarding the payment of hunters and commanders with all necessary signatures.

Offered by Silanty Kr-skoj silanty@dux.ru


Social custody Method.
We build a retirement home for elderly elephants. It is not difficult to get an elderly elephant from the home into a cage. Upon getting the elephant into the cage one must make sure that the elephant doesn't die from old age.

Offered by Eugene A. Kuznetsov smith@lab.sun.mcst.ru


Shaving method.
Catch a mammoth (this problem has been solved in the past). Shave it bald.

Offered by Silanty Kr-skoj silanty@dux.ru


Paleontological Method.
It is obvious that elephants have resided in the Sahara in the past. We locate and dig up remains of the old elephants and build a cage around them.

Offered by Silanty Kr-skoj silanty@dux.ru


TV method.
Place a TV in the Sahara and televise a melodrama about elephants. If too many elephants show up, we scare the extra ones off by broadcasting weather reports.

Offered by Silanty Kr-skoj silanty@dux.ru


Tomatoes method.
This is a great method, based on using a bait. It is well known that elephants have red eyes because this helps them camouflage in tomato gardens. The method is trivial: buy a truckload of tomatoes, put them in a cage. The elephant immediately runs to the cage to hide in the tomato camouflage. We close the cage. The only problem is finding the elephant amongst the tomatoes.

Offered by revil@sgb.ru


Method of Bouridan.
On the elephant path to the water hole, we place on both sides equidistant, two stacks of hay. Elephants passing by will stop in their indecisiveness and will stay indefinitely. At this point it is simple to take the elephant with your bare hands (i.e., a tractor) or simply build a cage arond the standing elephant.

Offered by Silanty Kr-skoj silanty@dux.ru


Special thanks to Yan Pritzker, yan@airvertise.com for the help in methods translation.
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