Straight Line of the Day: They Say “Garbage In, Garbage Out,” But According to the Conservation of Energy, Wouldn’t Some of the Garbage Remain in the System?

… and wouldn’t the conservation of momentum apply to the velocity at which garbage comes out?

Counterintuitively, garbage seems to come out much faster than garbage enters.

7 Comments

  1. Garbage is usually energy-intensive to collect, but saves energy for the lazy louts who scatter it about the countryside. The law of entropy suggests that for any garbage that is put into a system, more garbage is the inevitable result…

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