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- From: boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell)
- Subject: Re: Walking Between Rain Drops !!!!
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- Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
- References: <1992Dec21.211033.9241@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:49:39 GMT
- Lines: 69
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- In article <1992Dec21.211033.9241@news.columbia.edu> bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte) writes:
- > I am somewhat new to this news thread and do not know if this
- > is a new or old subject, but some my colleagues and I have
- > recently started a discussion about the rain.
-
- "Say, Jeb, whuzzat fallin' on our heads?"
-
- "Dunno, Bruce."
-
- "S'wet."
-
- "Yup."
-
- "S'pose it's rain?"
-
- "Mebbe."
-
- "Les' go post to talk.bizarre. Mebbe we can get rainwater in
- our keyboards."
-
- "Sure thing, ol' buddy."
-
- Alas, only Jeb's keyboard was shorted out.
-
- > We have pondered
- > in what way can you not get hit by rain drops ???
-
- Stay indoors.
-
- > Some of the issues we have been discussing are:
- > - if you run through the rain, do you get wetter since
- > you will obviously get hit by more rain drops, or do you
- > stay drier since you will spend less time in the rain ??
-
- Consider a body (a) with a velocity (b) running through
- raindrops (c) carrying pizza (d). Body (a) begins debating
- the question of whether it will get wet or stay dry by
- running toward building (e). Body (a) stares upward at the sky,
- catching raindrops on tongue and doing other dumb things.
- Body (f) snatches pizza and runs inside,
- reasoning that, while running may get body (f) wet,
- body (f) will be considerably happier than body (a), which
- will be (1) wet and (2) pizzaless.
-
- > - what effect does the rain have on this if the rain comes
- > down consistently or when it varies ??
-
- As any fool knows, rain falls consistently. All raindrops
- are exactly 1cm apart and contain one cubic hemisemimeter
- of H2O. If you can shift yourself exactly 90o out of phase
- with respect to the raindrops' periodicity you will, in fact,
- not get wet at all. You will soak your pizza however.
-
- > Any new views on this would be interesting !!!
-
- This must be a postulate, I sure can't derive it.
-
- >Bruce
-
- If you say so.
-
- -T
-
- What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again (WHACK)
-
- --
- Tom Boutell, boutell@cshl.org
-
- Clausthaler is the best non - alcoholic beer in the known universe.
-