do you know science?

Here is a question I have pondered a long time:

you are in a car and it is traveling at 40 mph. You have two choices

1. Hit a 20'x20'x20' block of cement perfectly head on

1. Hit another identical car which is also going 40 mph both hit perfectly head on.

Which choice?

In a perfect hit, there is no difference. The plane of the block you hit,stays where it is , causing certain damage. Now when the two cars hit headon, the plane between the two cars also stays in place, causing the same damage.

Only when cars are different, the lightest car bounces back from the heavy car, causing more damage to the lighter car. The lighter car would be better of with the concrete block.

However I would decline to participate in any of these experiments :)

The smallest car.

The car, obviously, because you can steer around it, or at least go for a glancing blow. ;-) As far as the force of impact, they're exactly equal other than maybe the different shape of the crush in the front end.

Kinda like this: If you've got a fish scale suspended horizontally with a string at each end, and the strings each go to a pulley and there's a 10 lb. weight at the end of each string, how much does the scale indicate? _______ ______/ scale \_____ O \_______/ O

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The chewed rope 'length' is the WRONG answer, idiot.

Evaporation of black holes?

-- Rich

Consider a flickering candle flame. What exactly is fire?

Again, Joe Sixpack has no more clue than Aristotle.

-- Rich

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The chewed rope 'length' is the WRONG answer, idiot.

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Tidal effects are pushing the moon into a higher orbit. Total energy is still reducing because the Earth's rotation is slowing.

Sylvia.

You did mean to say "average rotation" I trust, and "roughly the same face".

Sylvia.

Valid point, but the correct answer was "yes".

Sylvia.

It's a trick question because most people don't know about the curlicue in the isthmus. The "east" end is in the Pacific, and the "west" end is in the Atlantic.

'scuse me - the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Panama:

Cheers! Rich