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September 21, 2004
Frank Answers: Wacky Measurements, NHL Lockout, Lasers, Influencing, and Drinking Your Eight Ball
Katie from Mansfield, Taxachusetts writes: What's an 'm' and a 'km'. I only solve problems with real measurement values... the types used by humans. Go ask some Frenchman, and, when he starts to answer, punch him.
1. I don't care, but I have to pretend because SarahK likes hockey. I blame... uh... the Jews. 2. That's just silly. It's a straight beam. Why would a laser have anything else? Well, some laser sights blink for better visibility, but other than that, the point of a laser is a continuous beam. It's the best way to lase.
Bombs, bombs, me. Chuck F. Chadwick Anyway, my question: What's the liquid inside a Magic Eight Ball? And if I drink it will I become powerful and all knowing too? The liquid is mystical and magical in its properties, for within lie the secrets of the future. If you were to drink it, all would be known to you, and you would despair. For true knowledge of your future leaves you with no hope. So drink naught from the eight-ball. Ye be warned. * * * * If you've got questions, I've got answers... maybe even answers to your questions. E-mail me your questions about politics, science, math, theology, or whatever with the subject "Frank Answers". Include the name you want to be referred by, your town, and URL if you have one. 24 Responses To "Frank Answers: Wacky Measurements, NHL Lockout, Lasers, Influencing, and Drinking Your Eight Ball"
First #1 - Posted by: M1A1 on September 21, 2004 01:05 PMWow. Now I feel like a college student again, except this time I'm living in my parents' basement, and I'm even geekier than before. I need a shower. #2 - Posted by: M1A1 on September 21, 2004 01:06 PMNot only will the fluid from the Magic 8 Ball give you ghastly visions of a horrible future, it'll also turn your pee blue. I wonder what my teacher would say if I handed in my physics homework with Frank's answer. Only one way to find out! #4 - Posted by: Katie on September 21, 2004 02:25 PMAnswer to the sneezing driver distance problem: 1 gesundheit. Thank you. #5 - Posted by: Todd E on September 21, 2004 03:29 PMWhoa. So is was not an apple. It was a magic 8-ball. Something must have been lost on translation. I've heard that old semitic for "apple" really means "middle sized round reddish or greenish thing", this explains a lot. #6 - Posted by: kyber on September 21, 2004 03:44 PMFor Katie: 1) 90 km/h = 25 m/s, so in 0.5 seconds, you travel 12.5 meters, or 41.0105 feet. 2) 200m /6.509s = 30.72669 m/s = 110.6161 km/h. That's 68.73366 miles an hour in real units. 110.6161 km/h + 19.0 km/h = 129.6161 km/h = 36.00447 m/s. 200m / 36.00447 m/s = 5.554866 seconds. Sam's speed on the bike was 80.53971 miles an hour, which regardless of how you count it, is pretty f'ing fast on a bicycle. I couldn't help it. Had to use the engineering degree for something today. #7 - Posted by: mailman on September 21, 2004 03:54 PMJust one second, sir, I beg to differ. Katie postulates an impressive mental challenge and the conversion to m is quite simple as well as flat out fun to do. To actually determine the true length of 1 meter all one must do is measure the distance a beam of light travels (in a vaccum, of course) in approx 1/300,000,000 of a second. Frazier: Dogrobbered? LibertyBob: I'll not ask how you came by that info... #9 - Posted by: Syd Barret on September 21, 2004 04:25 PMAnd I have to disagree with you on the laser issue. I've found pulsed lasers to be very useful for that whole "science" thing... #10 - Posted by: prolix on September 21, 2004 04:28 PMFrasierCrane, Au contraire, mon ami! The current method for measurement of a meter is determined as you suggest. However, it's origin is far more sinister, more evil and dark - it's French. In 1795 the French Science Academy decided to determine the distance from the North Pole (like they had ever been there), running through Paris (all roads lead to Paris - NOT) to the equator and divide it by 10,000,000 (amazing they could count that high). This was the origin of the meter. The current definition is the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. Coincidentally, the inverse being the metric speed of light. So the origin of the meter is just as irrational as the British system - which by the way should be named American, the only major country that uses it. http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmetric.html Which is why everybody else plays metric football. #12 - Posted by: sleeper on September 21, 2004 04:34 PMYes, yes, of course I hesitated to use precise figures in the fear that it would disuade the casual reader into believing this was indeed some sort of arduous task, but mea culpa, mea MAXIMA culpa to all. No Niles, easy now. Blow is only an expression, dear boy. #13 - Posted by: FraserCrane on September 21, 2004 04:59 PMI've a feeling drinking the 8-ball juice would have quite another telltale sign: One would likely answer all questions with such things like, "Doesn't look good," "Don't count on it" and "Not a good idea." Therefore, not only would one lose their own hope but there'd be no way of keeping it to oneself. Everyone would know, whether they'd see yer blue piss or not, that you'd drank the juice of the AEB (Almighty Eight Ball). Bummer. I'm with Frank. Forget it! #14 - Posted by: Veda on September 21, 2004 05:08 PM- Actually, not meaning to pee in your cornflakes Frank, but pulsed lasing gives you the potential for a trully Godzilla increase in power on the target. It also reduces the heating of the equipment...something that only becomes a problem when you get into stratospheric power levels...Pulsing provides some time for cooling between hurculean blasts....You should have checked this one out with SarahK....from the looks of it shes the gunners mate of the family.....Heh #15 - Posted by: Hunter on September 21, 2004 05:56 PMCutting lasers often pulse to allow the plasma to disperse. Otherwise you wind up with a little cloud hovering over where the laser is trying to cut, defocusing the beam and preventing the laser penetrating deeper. Hunter's right, too, about maximizing peak power without melting your equipment. So there. This is the real reason for the lock out I posted this at SK's. #17 - Posted by: Joshua on September 21, 2004 07:21 PMNothin' like punching Frenchman. You could make it into a game! 10 points if he surrenders, another 10 is he uses his underwear to make a white flag of surrender, and another 10 if he yells, "Aah! Qui Qui! Zis face, she hurts!" #18 - Posted by: Faren Algorah on September 21, 2004 09:35 PMBut I have a much more important question: My mom made me velcro mitts and I live on a sheepranch, is it O.K. if I am more nervous than the sheep? #19 - Posted by: effengee on September 22, 2004 11:25 PMBlogging is the next generation of the Internet. If you've got something to say that interests somebody else, by golly, then there you have it! It's not about search engine rank or advertising, either. It's about word-of-mouse, and presentation. More here #20 - Posted by: Bloggerman on December 2, 2004 10:27 AMGreat discussion. Just a slight change in the subject. You may be interested in one of these seasonal tax topics: Great discussion. Just a slight change in the subject. You may be interested in one of these seasonal tax topics: Great discussion. Just a slight change in the subject. You may be interested in one of these seasonal tax topics: Great discussion. Just a slight change in the subject. 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