It's very possible. Napkins are notorious for stealing orders of magnitude.
troyunrau
joined 2 years ago
Actually kind of an amazing read. I suspect it shall live another life on 3-axis router tables and such for a while. The mechanic is single stroke lettering remain the same
I concur. I saw a truck with a flag on it the other day, and my immediate thought wasn't "antivaxxers nutcase" this time. Well, until I saw the bumper stickers. But the point stands -- there's been a really around the flag from the centre and it feels good to wash away the associated feelings.
I ain't doing hyperbolic equations on my napkin ;)
Instructions unclear, car stuck in dick.
Okay, napkin math... his nose is about 20cm long, and assuming it rotated about a perfect circle. The car moved say 10m. At the speed the car is moving, it covers that distance in ~120ns. So he has to move the end of his nose around a quarter circle of radius 20cm in 120ns. Let's say 30cm total movement, for easy math. 0.25cm/ns or 0.00025m/ns. The speed of light is 0.300m/ns, so we're talking about ~0.001c at the tip of his nose. Which is incidentally very close to the speed of sound in air.
So, probably not quite a sonic boom off the end of his nose. Assuming my math is correct. Very strong neck muscles. Also, he's been vapourized.
Okay, just back of the envelope math. Assuming the car is truly 550nm, so the blue car is 400nm, and the red car is 700nm... How fast is the car going?
Napkin math says 0.27c.
Δλ=λ(V/c)
Now someone else can figure out the kinetic energy of the car and why the whole continent just exploded...
You have the technology!
Seize the memes of production!
I use old.reddit in desktop mode still, on occasion. Today I clicked on a screenshot of a game cause I wanted more detail. I was directed to the new Reddit interface. I right clicked on the image and chose "open image in new tab" and got the new Reddit interface. I tried CTRL-scroll to zoom in the image, and it made the UI elements larger and in the process shrunk the image. I left the site.
The most ridiculous thing here is the assumption that Canadians would ever be more than Puerto Ricans in this scenario.
(1) We'd only ever join under duress
(2) If democracy still exists in the US, we wouldn't be given the vote, because we'd vote against them
(3) If democracy doesn't exist anymore, then whether we are called a state or not is irrelevant
(4) Canada gets turned into a strip mine with everyone conscripted to go fight against Mexico or whatever Roman Empire-style nonsense follows so that we can't organize resistance
A good contrast is something like Outer Worlds, where there is usually multiple possible outcomes. I think it comes from their Fallout lessons learned and GURPS background. Love the game design. (Dislike the combat, but that is a separate thing.)