Is it just me or are people fucking thick?

Stuart B · Post by **Stuart B** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:37 pm 0

Bog wrote:

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:47 pm 0

Stuart B wrote:
Guru-Meditation wrote:
piku wrote:Please raise a hand if you believe the earth is flat and that the sun goes around it, dragged by a god.
Only an idiot would think that god would pull the sun round the earth.

He pushes it.
Blasphemy!

He gives it a flick of course. Though he gets tired in the summer so it's not quite as fast or far away, natch.

Pffft, that's not it.

Think of the world as a clock, with god pushing the sun around in a clockwise motion around the clock. Round the left side of the clock God has to push the sun up and around, hence it takes longer. Round the right side he's going downhill so it doesn't take as long.

And Jed if you pull down on the plane too hard and make us crash I will haunt you for the rest of your life.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:50 pm 0

Bog wrote:Christ. Get it right, children....

tufty · Post by **tufty** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:06 pm 0

So, what you're trying to say is that emo is dragging you back back, the pixies will get you high, Jedburgh is a downer, and all we have in front of us is an endless treadmill?

Can't say I disagree with that.

Simon

Post by **Jedburgh** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:08 pm 0

Have you ever listened to The Pixies?

TheGoodbyeGirl · Post by **TheGoodbyeGirl** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:12 pm 0

page 22 eh

Outstanding

P.S. I'm only here to

tufty · Post by **tufty** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:12 pm 0

Jedburgh wrote:Have you ever listened to The Pixies?

Better than emo, innit. Or listening to you whining on, come to that.

[edit] Ban requst, also

Simon

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:13 pm 0

handbags

Mir Nyet · Post by **Mir Nyet** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:16 pm 0

Here is a good one, how hard is Tufty going to have to hit Jedburgh with that handbag in order to propell him down a runway fast enough to attain lift?

Discuss

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:16 pm 0

TheGoodbyeGirl wrote: page 22 eh

Outstanding

P.S. I'm only here to

It's more fun if you read it in gobsmacked disbelief that people can be this... obdurate.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:20 pm 0

Mark wrote:So, speed of wheels = speed of wheels + speed of plane.

WRONG!!

Speed of wheels == speed of plane.

This isn't rotational velocity, if the plane's moving forward at 5km/h then the treadmill is running at 5km/h.

Therefore takeoffage.

And if you're grasping at the imopssibility of the rotational speed matching to back you up then I'd still say you're wrong since the scenario says :

The conveyer belt is designed to exactly match the speed of the wheels

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:20 pm 0

Ooh, hark at her.
Someone got a thesaurus for... halloween then, didn't they.

Main Entry: obdurate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: robocop-like

tufty · Post by **tufty** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:26 pm 0

My god, this is the thread that keeps on giving. I haven't laughed so much in ages, and I could hardly have expected it to still be going, 22 pages and 30 hours later. It's been awesome. Honestly, I'd like to nominate this as thread of the year.

Simon

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:27 pm 0

I was actually thinking of Tit Willow from The Muppet Show. Nobody knew what it meant there either.

My greatest contrafibularities on your comment.

Mir Nyet · Post by **Mir Nyet** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:29 pm 0

disciple wrote:
Mark wrote:So, speed of wheels = speed of wheels + speed of plane.
WRONG!!

Speed of wheels == speed of plane.

This isn't rotational velocity, if the plane's moving forward at 5km/h then the treadmill is running at 5km/h.

Therefore takeoffage.

And if you're grasping at the imopssibility of the rotational speed matching to back you up then I'd still say you're wrong since the scenario says :

The conveyer belt is designed to exactly match the speed of the wheels

The way I sorted this in my head is that the plane is pushing forward which rotates the wheels against the treadmill, the treadmill reacts to this rotation by rolling in the opposite direction to the direction of travel of the plane (ironically in the direction of rotation of the wheels anyway) - but by the time the treadmill even attempts to react, the plane has already moved forward - damage done...

The threadmill is purely reacting to the rotation of the wheels, the rotation is a by product of the movement of the plane which is completely unaffected by the reaction of the threadmill.

As has been pointed out many times, the wheels just spin twice as fast.