

what, don't you have a toy tapir handy?!
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:11,
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for this stubbornly unhandy toy tapir.
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:12,
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I cunt hear you? Tits alright, bare-ass me again! Eh, we'll finger it out later.
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:28,
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HELLO EVERYONE AWAKE IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING/DIFFERENT TIME ZONES
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:02,
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i'm to bed soon though, just catching up on emails and such. i may pop in tomorrow if i get in early enough, though.
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:15,
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I need to be in Bristol at 7.20 to catch a bus to London.. I'm thinking that I might try sleeping until about 5am, watching the cricket for an hour or so, then buggering off for the journey.
I need to think of a way of filming some of the journey in a higher quality whilst on the bus so I can prepare my 5k post, otherwise I have to resort to my plan B =[
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:20,
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I need to think of a way of filming some of the journey in a higher quality whilst on the bus so I can prepare my 5k post, otherwise I have to resort to my plan B =[

Like illegally downloading things, instead of stealing hard copies.
Do you know where I can download a camera?
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:29,
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Do you know where I can download a camera?

Several paper flip style and
a few zeotrop sets.
Links and shit in archives
www.paperforest.blogspot.com/
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:41,
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a few zeotrop sets.
Links and shit in archives
www.paperforest.blogspot.com/

Still on the upslope, at least.
[not mine] www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/exam.gif
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:10,
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[not mine] www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/exam.gif

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i love that one, i'd have definitely given them some marks.
also does the question "does the object continue to move after it comes to rest" not strike you as somewhat stupid? by definition, no it doesn't.
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:29,
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also does the question "does the object continue to move after it comes to rest" not strike you as somewhat stupid? by definition, no it doesn't.

are also brilliant. where did you find them?
i think the question means that it's gone down the slope into the spring and they're wanting to know how far back up the slope it will be pushed. badly worded. they should have more questions like ours, with kids sliding down the backs of giant tortoises.
damn. got to get up and go to work. and mark students' work, coincidentally enough.
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:40,
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i think the question means that it's gone down the slope into the spring and they're wanting to know how far back up the slope it will be pushed. badly worded. they should have more questions like ours, with kids sliding down the backs of giant tortoises.
damn. got to get up and go to work. and mark students' work, coincidentally enough.

I was shown the elephant one a little while back and just did a search for other entertaing exam questions =]
They seem to be everywhere if you just do a search for something like "funny exam answers", people usually have a selection.
There are some real cracking ones around the place, it's just tough to find them all in one go =[
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:43,
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They seem to be everywhere if you just do a search for something like "funny exam answers", people usually have a selection.
There are some real cracking ones around the place, it's just tough to find them all in one go =[

in the meantime...
de.arxiv.org/abs/0712.1649
WARP DRIVES FTW! i'd do a nice photoshop but i lack for skills and time. i love the fact that the guys who wrote that are from waco...
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:47,
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de.arxiv.org/abs/0712.1649
WARP DRIVES FTW! i'd do a nice photoshop but i lack for skills and time. i love the fact that the guys who wrote that are from waco...

Although, I thought the idea of travelling faster than the speed of light was theoretically impossible, as time moves slower until you actually start moving backwards =[
Although if you had a "near light speed" drive, time might shift enough to propel the mass actually further, but not faster, than the light would be travelling... So you would get there sooner than the light, but without travelling faster...
*brain implodes*
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:53,
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Although if you had a "near light speed" drive, time might shift enough to propel the mass actually further, but not faster, than the light would be travelling... So you would get there sooner than the light, but without travelling faster...
*brain implodes*

it's all about expanding space behind you and contracting it in front of you. so you're moving much slower than light, it's space itself that's shoving you along. a bit like surfing through spacetime.
good stuff.
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 8:19,
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good stuff.

*builds one out of cardboard and sticky back plastic*
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 8:58,
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but by definition something that's moving isn't at rest and something that's at rest isn't moving. (i get your point, it comes to rest but the spring is going to accelerate it back again. it's just a badly-worded question.)
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 8:23,
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It leads right to misstatements like that[question].
edit: not your more correct one.
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 8:28,
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edit: not your more correct one.

We need more questions like:
"An insane tramp takes a snowboard to the top of the tallest hill in town. The hill is a 3:1 gradient and 20m in elevation. Assuming that the road surface is tarmac with a coefficiant of friction as given in Table 1, what speed does the tramp reach at the foot of the hill? How likely is the tramp to survive the collision 10m from the foot of the hill with a ten ton lorry loaded with razor blades? How likely is the tramp to quit halfway down and ask someone for money for a cup of tea?"
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 8:54,
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"An insane tramp takes a snowboard to the top of the tallest hill in town. The hill is a 3:1 gradient and 20m in elevation. Assuming that the road surface is tarmac with a coefficiant of friction as given in Table 1, what speed does the tramp reach at the foot of the hill? How likely is the tramp to survive the collision 10m from the foot of the hill with a ten ton lorry loaded with razor blades? How likely is the tramp to quit halfway down and ask someone for money for a cup of tea?"

'ning you. Wotcha doin' this side of the fence, did you get bored of being abused on the board full of text but strange dislike for words?
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 7:30,
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