Interesting things to ask Wolfram|Alpha.....

[chongkeat]

Seriously, plug these in into the search box. You might be surprised.

1) what is the meaning of life?
*Of course, everyone knows the answer to this question.....

2) are you skynet?

3) ninjas vs. pirates

4) where do babies come from?


As an example,
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Answer:
A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
(according to the tongue-twister, although the paper "The Ability of Woodchucks to Chuck Cellulose Fibers" by P.A. Paskevich and T.B. Shea in Annals of Improbable Research vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 4-9, July/August 1995, concluded that a woodchuck can chuck 361.9237001 cubic centimeters of wood per day)
And to break the system,
"when is 5 trillion days from now?"
http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2009/06/amusements_with_alpha.html

[chongkeat]

And as an excuse for a bump, more questions....

5) Which weighs more, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?
6) What is the sound of one hand clapping?
7) How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
8 ) Who am I?

[youngyew]

On a more technical side of things, while WA's mathematical prowess is amazing (http://www86.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=integrate+sin%5E3%28x%29+%2F+cos%5E2%28x%29), it still has some difficulty with some "standard" questions. For example:

What is 1.00001^100000 (approximately the same as e)
http://www86.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.00001^100000

WA failed to give us a good answer while google did it (http://www.google.com/search?&q=%281.00001%29%5E100000&sourceid=firefox) with ease.