Maths genius at work

[Nieninque]

http://www.robmonroe.net/upload/2007/1/24/elephantintheway.jpg

[Methais]

I'm afraid I just don't have the power, captain.

[Bobmuhthol]

I love physics questions that are both impossible and contradictory, which explains why the solution is that there is an elephant in the way - there's no solution in the first place.

[Sean of the Thread]

I was wondering how long it would take for Bob to show up in this thread.


It's like the pools we have on how long it takes Mel to bring up diabetes in ANY medical thread.

[Keller]

I was wondering how long it would take for Bob to show up in this thread.


It's like the pools we have on how long it takes Mel to bring up diabetes in ANY medical thread.

Or the pools on how long it takes for Xyelin to make a condescending off-topic post.

[Keller]

I love physics questions that are both impossible and contradictory, which explains why the solution is that there is an elephant in the way - there's no solution in the first place.


It's been 9 years now since I took physics, but I'm not sure why it's impossible?

Explain?

[Bobmuhthol]

My original thinking was actually using wrong data. :( I thought it was asking about the object as opposed to the spring.

However, asking if an object moves after it comes to rest seems.. awkward, at best.

[Keller]

My original thinking was actually using wrong data. :( I thought it was asking about the object as opposed to the spring.

However, asking if an object moves after it comes to rest seems.. awkward, at best.


Ya, I think it was a poor word choice. They probably meant the pinacle, which would be 5m.

[Latrinsorm]

It's phrased accurately. The answers are radical 3 meters, yes, and 5 meters, respectively.

This image cropped up on PsiNet about a week ago and I laughed for several minutes. It's a classic.

[Sean of the Thread]

Was only condescending because bob thinks he knows all and is usually way off base. Par for course.


Physics was one of my favorites but if there was to be a board expert on anything mathematical I'd vote for Latrin.

[Artha]

Was only condescending because bob thinks he knows all and is usually way off base. Par for course.
Cough.



This picture reminds of Planes, Trains and Plantains: The Story of Oedipus (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/image/essay/1).

[Sean of the Thread]

Rofl @ your cough.

[Soulpieced]

How the hell did that kid only get a D- for that paper. Ridiculous.

[The Ponzzz]

How the hell did that kid only get a D- for that paper. Ridiculous.


Hah, that essay fucking rocked! And that professor's hand writing sucked fucking ass! The colored paper just makes it even more funnier!

And the elephant thing was classic!

Reminds me about my 10th grade History final where I had to write an essay about the Untouchables and I drew a huge blank, so I talked about Ghandi and Neo-India. It was hilarious and scored me a nice 66(D). I was happy, and according to my little sister my teacher(Mrs. Bartlett) uses it as an example of what NOT to do on a final exam. I like to think I made high school history.

[Artha]

I hated my 11th grade english class with a passion. It was seriously a chore to go there (I had it as my first class), and at one point in the year I went and played tennis for a half hour before school on days when I had that class. Why a half hour? Because if you make it to school in 45 minutes, it's a tardy and not an absence. We were allowed 19 absences a year, and 3 tardies is an absence, so I worked it out where I could be late every day and still pass.

Anyway, come the final exam, we had to write an essay about transcendentalists. I wrote that they lived deep underground, breathed fire, and were worshipped by the Peruvians as gods - though they were not gods, which caused El Nino.

I got full credit for the question, with the comment of 'ok' and did better than my friends that studied and wrote legit answers.

[TheEschaton]

How did you get full credit?

-TheE-

[Artha]

My teacher was totally unqualified to teach.

[Sean of the Thread]

Lol.


To put it in perspective.. teachers regularly have other people grade their students papers. It's not that they don't care really.. it's just that highschool DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER.

That being said I've also bluffed myself a free midterm when I didn't even take it in college... They have no clue either.

[Daniel]

lol. What do you even say to a student at that point?

[Stanley Burrell]

I would be really happy if I were a teacher and received such l33tness.

I was also under the impression that the No Child Left Behind act covered elephants as viable physics intermediums :shrug:

[StrayRogue]

lol. What do you even say to a student at that point?

You fail?

[Daniel]

Fair enough