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6_bleen_7

Random Stuff XLIX: Mostly Driving

Jun 07, 2008 00:22

You know someone's using far too much aftershave if you're standing on the sidewalk and you can smell it on someone driving by at 25 MPH (40 km/h).

Here's a little spatial reasoning problem you can try to solve in your head, if you haven't already seen it in real life. Suppose you have a bumper sticker on the rear window of your car. (I do; it's ( Read more... )

fundies, random_shit, cell_phones, suvs

Comments 7

q_pheevr June 7 2008, 04:56:20 UTC

I'm gonna say:

The decal as seen in the rearview mirror is right-reading.
24 m.p.g. (e.g., 120 miles on 5 gallons)
80 m.p.h. (i.e., 240 miles in 3 hours)
I didn't bother doing this one, because if I understand it correctly, I already did plenty like it in high school physics. It's just like throwing a ball 60 miles into the (hypothetically frictionless) air and waiting for it to come down, no? (Except that the acceleration and deceleration happen in the opposite order.) So as long as I know how to do it, I'm not actually going to bother bringing out pen and paper to work it out.

6_bleen_7 November 3 2008, 02:04:32 UTC

Right on the first three, and correct in principle on the fourth. At least in the US, there aren't very many people who remember x = ½at2 from high school, even if they learned it again in college. I reckon it would take about 3 min 18 s one way, with a speed of about 970 m/s (3490 km/s, or 2170 MPH) at turnaround.

ruthling June 9 2008, 00:35:34 UTC

this post is awesome.

saw plenty of cell phone idiots on today's drive. the best idiot was the woman doing her hair and weaving in and out of her lane at 80 MPH on the Garden State

6_bleen_7 June 12 2008, 01:19:45 UTC

Thanks! I got to do some highway driving in/around Boston last September. I think my hairline receded by an inch that week. Even the shoulders are fair game!

ruthling June 12 2008, 12:38:33 UTC

sometimes even the sidewalks! :)

6_bleen_7 June 13 2008, 03:48:29 UTC

They sure do come in handy during rush hour, though.

Wendover anonymous February 6 2010, 01:01:26 UTC

See when I go to Wendover I just try to stay on the road! Have you ever been on the road at night or when it's snowing. It can be kinda dangerous for sure. At least there is a series of bright lights at the end of the salty tunnel. Here is a cool site on Wendover I found if you wanted to check it out: http://www.WendoverWinnings.com