Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.

'Beneath You'


Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Emily - Oct 22, 2006 6:53:33 pm PDT #4846 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

it ought to land back in your hand.

Like, if you keep walking, or if you stop immediately after throwing it up?

ETA: Let me just add, I feel like a total moron for not knowing this right off, but... well, but I think it's a really bad experiment and demonstrates exactly nothing, since there's no way to orient your throwing muscles in exactly and only one direction and turn off your compensating brain.


§ ita § - Oct 22, 2006 7:02:38 pm PDT #4847 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The ball has the momentum of your forward movement as well as the thrown momentum. So it'd land right back in your hand...as long as you keep walking. Otherwise it'll land in front of you.

Had sushi. Every now and again I crave the Philadelphia roll. I have to remember not to do that. I can't eat six of those and anything else.


Emily - Oct 22, 2006 7:20:47 pm PDT #4848 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Right, that's what I thought (as long as you don't, say, compensate for your forward movement because you think you're supposed to).


§ ita § - Oct 22, 2006 7:37:30 pm PDT #4849 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't think most people do. It'd be something I'd have to think about doing--tossing a ball up in the air and expecting it to come right back down to the same relative point, moving or stationary, is second nature for me. Anything else would be forced, and probably ill-calculated.


tommyrot - Oct 22, 2006 7:38:06 pm PDT #4850 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Emily, you're over-thinking the problem....


§ ita § - Oct 22, 2006 7:42:12 pm PDT #4851 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

tommyrot - Oct 22, 2006 7:43:25 pm PDT #4852 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

ita, that link goes to b.org.


billytea - Oct 22, 2006 7:45:49 pm PDT #4853 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

BF or not, I sleep with two stuffed animals. They just happen to be alive.

So Drew's one of them, which cat are you counting?


aurelia - Oct 22, 2006 7:53:08 pm PDT #4854 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains folate, which in the US can be added only to breads and cereals.

That is bizarre. The folate in Vegemite is naturally occuring in the yeast, isn't it? Our lawmakers need to read up on nih factsheets instead of listening to lobbyists.

. There is no health risk, and no UL, for natural sources of folate found in food. >[link]

Only pets get the open door treatment during bathroom activities.

Is anyone else watching Brothers and Sisters? So far it's my fave of the new shows. It's like a mix of Six Feet Under (minus the bodies and f-bombs) and Thirtysomething with a really great exploration of a complicated family dynamic.


Lee - Oct 22, 2006 7:55:27 pm PDT #4855 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I'm home. YAY.

My vacation is over. BOO.