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| zoobrenok 3/20/2003 07:48:05 [ report this post ] |
 Subject: Math questionMessage: You have 8miles bridge with 55m/h speed limit. You know an exact moment when you entered a bridge. Bridge has 3 lines and in a shape of concave. At the end of the bridge police pulls you over and claims that you were going 30 miles over speed limit. Try prooving him wrong. An exact moment of you getting of the bridge is known, but it is 'adjustable' number and you can use it to help to illustrate your point. Assume two cases: 1. not many cars on the bridge, bridge almost empty 2. traffic is not heavy, but there are cars on the bridge Enjoy and -- drive safe and stay away from police :) |
| jean_marc 3/20/2003 08:09:09 [ report this post ] | 55m/h !!!! Message: they would have been ticketed even for pushing the car across the bridge... :) |
| jean_marc 3/20/2003 08:16:11 [ report this post ] | scratch Message: the last post. It was only after I had pushed the post button that I realized that m stands for miles and not meters... |
| silverwolfwsc 3/20/2003 08:30:27 [ report this post ] | haha Message: thats funny cause it took me about as long to figure out that you meant meters when you posted the first one! |
| pawntificator 3/20/2003 22:44:57 [ report this post ] | Zoob Message: clarify that question would you? 3 lines? concave bridge? You know the time you got on and off the bridge? |
| swarm 3/21/2003 10:26:46 [ report this post ] | Pawntificator Message: I was confused by one of his other math problems -- I think he's looking for a formula with variables |
| zoobrenok 3/22/2003 09:34:55 [ report this post ] | pawntificator Message: this is not REAL LIFE scenario. but imagine that you go pulled over by the officer who is in love with Sceince (Math, Chemestry, Physics - you name it) and who will let you go if you proove him wrong. And yes, you were in fact SPEEDING that fast, you just need to proove him wrong and this is the only goal here. If you proof has well hidden mistakes -- fine, let it be there! This is not real life situation, but let's have some fun here :) |
| knightrider7 3/22/2003 17:25:06 [ report this post ] | proof this Message: well, as long as we're just having fun: if olive oil comes from olives and peanut oil comes from peanuts, then where does baby oil come from??? |
| knightrider7 3/22/2003 17:29:24 [ report this post ] | or.. try this Message: tell the cop your car got carjacked by an Al Qaeda terrorist just after you got on the bridge. he drove 100 m/hr across 7 miles of the bridge. then he stopped, got out and jumped off the bridge in to a boat waiting for him with some of his cohorts. you then drove the last mile at the correct speed limit. does this solve your problem??????? |
| legion 3/22/2003 18:13:41 [ report this post ] | Don't play this fundies games! Message: <<but imagine that you go pulled over by the officer who is in love with Sceince (Math, Chemestry, Physics - you name it) and who will let you go if you proove him wrong. And yes, you were in fact SPEEDING that fast, you just need to proove him wrong and this is the only goal here.>> Never, EVER help this guy prove science wrong. A. You can't. B. If you THINK you can, he's gotcha. He'll have you denying evolution next! Don't you remember that episode of Friends? The one where Pheobie kept on and on at Ross about the fossil record being crap? Ross, being a good guy and mainly to shut her up, finally gave in to Pheobies plaeding and cajouling and agreed that there may be a slight possibility that his lifelong held beliefs may be wrong. Whereupon Pheobie immediately rounded on him and cast aspertions on the strength of his beliefs, citing the ease with which he was willing to give them up! These guys don't play fair! They have a totally different morality than us. You can not talk with them. You can not reason with them. And they absolutely will not stop, ever. |
| knightrider7 3/22/2003 18:53:19 [ report this post ] | Message: thank God. i thought i was alone. were you abducted by the gray aliens last night too? wasn't it scary in that big spaceship? i got probed but good again. can't hardly sit down today. they're really hung up with human orifices aren't they??? |
| ares 3/22/2003 21:46:36 [ report this post ] | Message: I cannot express in words how pathetically stupid your way of wording your question is. Know now not to ask questions you cannot say. |
| hamlet 3/23/2003 01:11:43 [ report this post ] | hmm Message: you point point out that you were only on the bridge for 8 minutes and 45 seconds, giving you an average speed of just under 55 mph. (because you could have been going 30 mph or more for the first part of the journey, and then you hit the traffic and were going sorely under speed.) or you could point out that the guy in front of you was going faster. do I pass? |
| stenlis 3/23/2003 01:26:58 [ report this post ] | Message: never try to show a policeman, that you think you are smarter than him |
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