Question?

[Ant]

If it is a 50 mph per hour wind and you drive your car at 50mph downwind, if you stick your head outside would you feel the wind?

[Jeff]

You would still feel some wind because the car's aerodynamics would create buffeting etc. If you took that out of the equation tho....I guess not? :confused:

[AndyT]

Originally posted by Ant
If it is a 50 mph per hour wind and you drive your car at 50mph downwind, if you stick your head outside would you feel the wind?

How many of us are going to crash tomorrow trying this :rolleyes: ;)

[tim rome]

well try this one then, if you are driving at the speed of light and you switch your headlights on will they have any effect.

[Chris_Lacey]

That depends... Do you switch the lights on AFTER reaching lightspeed or before. If before then the lights will be a projected distance ahead of the car, if at the same time then the light would be caught by the vehicle..

Wonder how much horsepower you'd need to go that fast? :)

[Ant]

Seeing as though we're entering randomness....

Are judges and lawyers eligible for jury service?

[Chris_Lacey]

I don't know, but more importantly when does "quick" become "fast" ? :D

[Chimp]

who knows... but what colour does a smurf turn if you choke it to death?

and what would a world without hypothetical questions be like?

[Mad Max]

Excuse me for answering a question with a question but...

What would happen if you strapped a slice of toast butter side up on the back of a cat and dropped it? Would it just hover in mid air?

[Phil L]

Originally posted by Mad Max
What would happen if you strapped a slice of toast butter side up on the back of a cat and dropped it? Would it just hover in mid air?

I've been thinking about this cat/toast business for a while. In the buttered toast case, it's the butter that causes it to land buttered side down - it doesn't have to be toast, the theory works equally well with Jacob's crackers. So to save money you just miss out the toast - and butter the cats.

Also, should there be an imbalance between the effects of cat and butter, there are other substances that have a stronger affinity for carpet.

Probability of carpet impact is determined by the following simple formula: p = s * t(t)/t? where p is the probability of carpet impact, s is the "stain" value of the toast-covering substance - an indicator of the effectiveness of the toast topping in permanently staining the carpet.

Chicken Tikka Masala, for example, has a very high s value, while the s value of water is zero.

t? and t(t) indicate the tone of the carpet and topping - the value of p being strongly related to the relationship between the colour of the carpet and topping, as even chicken tikka masala won't cause a permanent and obvious stain if the carpet is the same colour.

So it is obvious that the probability of carpet impact is maximised if you use chicken tikka masala and a white carpet - in fact this combination gives a p value of one, which is the same as the probability of a cat landing on its feet.

Therefore a cat with chicken tikka masala on its back will be certain to hover in mid air, while there could be problems with buttered toast as the toast may fall off the cat, causing a terrible monorail crash resulting in nauseating images of members of the royal family visiting accident victims in hospital, and politicians saying it wouldn't have happened if their party was in power as there would have been more investment in cat-toast glue research.

Therefore it is in the interests not only of public safety but also public sanity if the buttered toast on cats idea is scrapped, to be replaced by a monorail powered by cats smeared with chicken tikka masala floating above a rail made from white shag pile carpet

[Chimp]

if it were anything like the crust i had from our works "canteen" today, it would hit the ground like a sack of sh_it and break its spine.

[Martin T]

Originally posted by Chris_Lacey
That depends... Do you switch the lights on AFTER reaching lightspeed or before. If before then the lights will be a projected distance ahead of the car, if at the same time then the light would be caught by the vehicle..

Wonder how much horsepower you'd need to go that fast? :)

Answer a hypothetical question with a real answer.
Infinate!
According to Einstein, mass tends towards infinity as you approach the speed of light, therefore the mass of say a 200sx would be infinate, requiring an infinate amount of horsepower to get it to the speed of light.

Here's another Q.

If you are in a 200sx travelling sideways at 3/4 of the speed of light (relative to me), and someone else is travelling at 3/4 of the speed of light in the opposite direction (relative to me), then what is their speed relative to you?

[Leon]

Originally posted by Martin T


If you are in a 200sx travelling sideways at 3/4 of the speed of light (relative to me), and someone else is travelling at 3/4 of the speed of light in the opposite direction (relative to me), then what is their speed relative to you?

It depends if I@ve got the blue lights on or not...

[Vez]

RElative speed is not true speed :)

You would still see both behicles from one another as when the light is reflected, that surface is actually stationary, therefore you would see one another.

But the relative speed from say an impact would be quite quick ;)