Nerdy facebook chain-ficcery
You get tired of waiting for Frodo to drop the One Ring into Mount Doom,
so you decide to assault the gates of Mordor by building a spring
loaded catapult and launching your favourite flaming object at the 73m
high gate at 75m/s. The cataput itself has a base of 4.0m and a height
of 3.0m. The magic laden air has a drag coefficient, but the gates open and a
horde of orcs ten thousand strong overwhelms you, thereby saving you
from having to solve the question.
However, you still have time to describe how travelling wave ideas apply to the hordes of evil. From the top of a siege tower you can see, over the great wall, columns of orcs funnelling over paths towards the gates. With a spyglass you observe one lane of orcs experience a sudden slowdown, then a few troops later resume normal speed. No accident or obstruction is visible! Then you get shot down by an archer.
(classical mechanics is not my strong subject right now. and fic writing is much too far down the to-do list...the premises are multiplying. Fandom participation is reduced to browsing the first few pages of various Tumblrs and the f-list. I don't think I can attempt NaNo this year...not at my current lab writing efficiency.)
so you decide to assault the gates of Mordor by building a spring
loaded catapult and launching your favourite flaming object at the 73m
high gate at 75m/s. The cataput itself has a base of 4.0m and a height
of 3.0m. The magic laden air has a drag coefficient, but the gates open and a
horde of orcs ten thousand strong overwhelms you, thereby saving you
from having to solve the question.
However, you still have time to describe how travelling wave ideas apply to the hordes of evil. From the top of a siege tower you can see, over the great wall, columns of orcs funnelling over paths towards the gates. With a spyglass you observe one lane of orcs experience a sudden slowdown, then a few troops later resume normal speed. No accident or obstruction is visible! Then you get shot down by an archer.
(classical mechanics is not my strong subject right now. and fic writing is much too far down the to-do list...the premises are multiplying. Fandom participation is reduced to browsing the first few pages of various Tumblrs and the f-list. I don't think I can attempt NaNo this year...not at my current lab writing efficiency.)