Notes and Queries Thread

teagar

TheTalkingTurboTrainer wrote:

teagar wrote:

TheTalkingTurboTrainer wrote:

Teagar, what's your definition of Thrust? Or at least what IS the definition of thrust?

Doesn't it involve some kinda movement? If, so, then how are the scales exerting thrust?

Also, what's the water got to do with it in the other example? The ship is going to displace water equal to it's weight (or something like that). So if all these pigeons are sitting around in the hold of the ship, ya know, chilling and and discussing who the've poohed on, and then they all take off into the air (but still within the hold of the ship but obviously not touching the shop), then SURELY the ship is now lighter therefore it rises higher in the water!?

And do you reckon the Pope masturbates? :shock: What does he think of? If anyone says little choir boys, I'm calling the police! :roll:

Definition of thrust: : the force used in pushing; "the push of the water on the walls of the tank"; "the thrust of the jet engines"


The ship is only "lighter" if the downwards force of the birds (created by the flapping of the wings) is dissapated over areas that arn't the boat. Birds arn't weightless
As for the pope: Mother Teresa surely?

I wonder how the term "one eye'd biship" came about, come to think of it...

I think I want to see this proved now. I'm not saying you're lying (although your tag line indicates otherwise!), I guess in my head it's hard to imagine a bird's wings providing thrust equal to their weight. Though I guess it makes sense. I'm not a scientist so it's all greek to me. I prefer derivatives and beta and alpha returns!

Hmmm maybe Jeremy Clarkson could do this experiment? He could use a massive supertanker and say a few Apache gunships to represent the pigeons! .... Cos using actual pigeons would be dull! 8)

Wow, I didn't know the Pope was into necrophilia?! :shock:

I was told that rocket scientists were going into finance because the maths was so complicated!


I'm sure the Pope can draw on a few memories.

TheTalkingTurboTrainer

teagar wrote:

TheTalkingTurboTrainer wrote:

teagar wrote:

TheTalkingTurboTrainer wrote:

Teagar, what's your definition of Thrust? Or at least what IS the definition of thrust?

Doesn't it involve some kinda movement? If, so, then how are the scales exerting thrust?

Also, what's the water got to do with it in the other example? The ship is going to displace water equal to it's weight (or something like that). So if all these pigeons are sitting around in the hold of the ship, ya know, chilling and and discussing who the've poohed on, and then they all take off into the air (but still within the hold of the ship but obviously not touching the shop), then SURELY the ship is now lighter therefore it rises higher in the water!?

And do you reckon the Pope masturbates? :shock: What does he think of? If anyone says little choir boys, I'm calling the police! :roll:

Definition of thrust: : the force used in pushing; "the push of the water on the walls of the tank"; "the thrust of the jet engines"


The ship is only "lighter" if the downwards force of the birds (created by the flapping of the wings) is dissapated over areas that arn't the boat. Birds arn't weightless
As for the pope: Mother Teresa surely?

I wonder how the term "one eye'd biship" came about, come to think of it...

I think I want to see this proved now. I'm not saying you're lying (although your tag line indicates otherwise!), I guess in my head it's hard to imagine a bird's wings providing thrust equal to their weight. Though I guess it makes sense. I'm not a scientist so it's all greek to me. I prefer derivatives and beta and alpha returns!

Hmmm maybe Jeremy Clarkson could do this experiment? He could use a massive supertanker and say a few Apache gunships to represent the pigeons! .... Cos using actual pigeons would be dull! 8)

Wow, I didn't know the Pope was into necrophilia?! :shock:

I was told that rocket scientists were going into finance because the maths was so complicated!


I'm sure the Pope can draw on a few memories.

It's true. Their IS a rocket scientist in my team and my firm boasts a stupid number of professors on staff. We're known as 'a firm of geeks' actually. Well ... not for much longer given we've been bought so we'll lose that tag line.

We don't let the Prof's out much though. No client/external contact for them, we're not stupid!! 8)

Stewie Griffin

For the aeroplane on the conveyor belt and is something with birds in it lighter if the birds fly watch Mythbusters, both myths busted

muffin top

iainment wrote:

muffin top wrote:

CHRISNOIR wrote:

Cool, seems well answered! Anyone else got any niggling queries* to put to the collective wisdom of Cake Stop?


*Apart from the one about an aircraft on a tradmill - it always causes internet warfare...

Do you meam like 'why does dropped toast always land sticky side down on the carpet'? Bit dull that one.
Another one, that really should be directed to my family, is why am I the only person in our house that understands that light switches can be used to switch lights off as well as on? Yes, I have tried explaining this and given practical demonstrations. They just stare at me with blank expressions and tell me not to shout ....

Finally, what would happen if you put an aircraft on a treadmill?

Cats always land on their feet, so if you strapped a slice of buttered toast onto a cats back and threw it out of a top floor window which side up would it land ? Buttered side down or cats feet down?

That cat toast thing is profound. Belongs in another thread me thinks.

Mothyman

if one of the parrots died in flight . dropping onto the buttered toast....would the writhing cat increase the roll of the plane?

TheTalkingTurboTrainer

Mothyman wrote:

if one of the parrots died in flight . dropping onto the buttered toast....would the writhing cat increase the roll of the plane?

Depends.

Is the Pope flying the plane? And if so, what's he thinking of?

Mothyman

the Pope missed the flight..but the whole of the Bahrain first 11 soccer team are on board...mostly parrot collectors in their spare time...


what am i babbling onabout?

iain_j

I thought of this thread today.

Why did I just spend my whole Sunday afternoon out the back cleaning my bike, giving myself a bad back and cut fingers in the process, when I know full well by the end of the week (probably the end of tomorrow in fact) it'll be filthy again?

freehub

Can this make yer go wappy?

http://bestiario.org/research/eyecandy/

iainment

muffin top wrote:

iainment wrote:

muffin top wrote:

CHRISNOIR wrote:

Cool, seems well answered! Anyone else got any niggling queries* to put to the collective wisdom of Cake Stop?


*Apart from the one about an aircraft on a tradmill - it always causes internet warfare...

Do you meam like 'why does dropped toast always land sticky side down on the carpet'? Bit dull that one.
Another one, that really should be directed to my family, is why am I the only person in our house that understands that light switches can be used to switch lights off as well as on? Yes, I have tried explaining this and given practical demonstrations. They just stare at me with blank expressions and tell me not to shout ....

Finally, what would happen if you put an aircraft on a treadmill?

Cats always land on their feet, so if you strapped a slice of buttered toast onto a cats back and threw it out of a top floor window which side up would it land ? Buttered side down or cats feet down?

That cat toast thing is profound. Belongs in another thread me thinks.

Why thank you kindly, I'm rarely known for being profound.

Pip pip

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