Exercise your critical thinking skills

Tiger - maybe these should go in the quiz section

the second one is easy - because it was daylight.

 

I find the first one easy; Bobby is dead

 

hehe, haven't been to the quiz section yet...

anyway, consider that both twins are alive.

 

Bobby was born just before midnight on the 29th February and Billy born after midnight on the 1st March, So after 4 years Bobby is 1 and Billy is 4 therefore older.

 

Where ever you go, there you remain.

 

wow, never thought of that way before...

how do they celebrate people with feb. 29 as a birthday :-?


well, the answer is that their mother gave birth to them in a fast plane/boat, and they crossed the international dateline in between the birth of the twins.

 

Billy is still older though... he has lived outside his mother for longer.

 

Of course the moment he came out his mother sooner he is technically by law and logic older.
The only way you could twist it with good argument is when somehow you'd be able to confirm that his egg was fertilized earlier, or both his seed and egg were created earlier.
But that's not quite possible.

 

Also that is not the moment from which age is measured. When you are born you are not proclaimed nine months old (even though technically you are).

 

Billy is older by law, for example, Bobby was born on 12:01 am, March 2nd.

They crossed the International Dateline, in which the current date is still March 1st, 11:50 pm. and Billy was born on that time.

So Bobby was born first, on 12:01 am, March 2

and Billy was born second, on 11:50 pm, March 1.

I doubt this will happen though, unless there is some nerd on-board which proudly exclaims this.