“Right, let’s go through this again…”

“Oh, do we really have to?” said Geoff. “I know and you know that this is a stupid idea, we’ve been through this so many times, just please shut u-”

“AS I WAS SAYING ,” said Daniel forcefully, “we know that some things bounce. This is an indisputable fact. And how do we know that things bounce?”

“By looking them up on thingsthatbounce.com?” asked Geoff, wearily.

Daniel glared at him. “No. By observing them. So we don’t know whether an object will bounce until we bounce it. Therefore, the only way to tell whether a specific object is going to bounce is to drop it and see if it bounces.”

Geoff tried, in vain, to end the madness. “But you can surely see-”

“See? SEE ? You’re one of these people that are always holding back true science! Observation! Repetition! Experimentation! This is all that I see!”

“Yeah, well, that’s as maybe. But if you drop my laptop, I’m still going to beat you to death with the hard drive.”