leave door open. own it.
Ha ha ha. No.
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
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.
Dana - Sep 07, 2007 6:15:59 am PDT #9019 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Vortex - Sep 07, 2007 6:17:16 am PDT #9020 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
You're thinking of acceleration due to gravity, which is 9.8 meters per second² (or 9.8 meters per second per second. The first "per second" is the velocity, the second is how much the velocity increases each second.)
Hey, I remembered something from physics. I say go, me.
meara - Sep 07, 2007 6:19:37 am PDT #9021 of 10001
Well, it depends on the object, doesn't it? Some reach terminal velocity. Like cats, falling out of a window. They're safer falling from higher stories, because they reach terminal velocity and have a chance to right themselves before hitting ground.
tommyrot - Sep 07, 2007 6:21:42 am PDT #9022 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.
Well, it depends on the object, doesn't it? Some reach terminal velocity. Like cats, falling out of a window. They're safer falling from higher stories, because they reach terminal velocity and have a chance to right themselves before hitting ground.
Yeah. Except the terminal velocity is due to wind friction. Which we're ignoring here (but I suppose ignoring wind friction would make the question less intuitive.)
Anyway, I'm gonna start answering the questions. What will take more time is explaining the answers.
bon bon - Sep 07, 2007 6:23:15 am PDT #9023 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Are they of specific department stores?
I don't think so. I believe at least some, if not most, of their stock is direct from manufacturers.
Dana - Sep 07, 2007 6:24:19 am PDT #9024 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
It was on this day in 1927 that a man named Philo T. Farnsworth transmitted the first ever all-electronic television picture in history. Farnsworth had gotten the idea for television when he was just 14 years old, living on a potato farm in Idaho. His high school science teacher had gotten him interested in electricity, and he studied electrical engineering in his spare time. One day, he was tilling a potato field, walking with the horse back and forth, when he suddenly had a vision of a machine that could break an image down, line by line, and then reconstruct it on a screen.
And then his brother-in-law, Cliff Gardner, learned to make glass tubes. t /Sports Night
shrift - Sep 07, 2007 6:25:49 am PDT #9025 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Would it be weird to close my office door so I could chair-dance to Rage Against the Machine?
Going home on the El last night, I was angry and listening to Helmet. Nobody sat next to me. I think they could sense the homicidal fury. This morning I had Sleater-Kinney cranked to drown out the screaming baby.
I wish I had an office door I could close.
Nutty - Sep 07, 2007 6:26:10 am PDT #9026 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
1) I also guess 2X.
2) I know that gravity is measured in meters-per-second squared, so I know it's an acceleration rate. So the ball dropped from 10 feet will not be going as fast as a ball dropped from a gerater height. OTOH, I also know about terminal velocity (thanks Mythbusters), so I know that, to tie it all together, a cat thrown from a 10-story window is just as likely to survive as a cat thrown from a lower window.
Dana - Sep 07, 2007 6:27:51 am PDT #9027 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I wish I had an office door I could close.
Well, I won't have one in a couple of weeks. They're moving me to a new project. Upside: better commute. Downside: no office (and certainly a lot less internet time, sigh).
§ ita § - Sep 07, 2007 6:28:07 am PDT #9028 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
a cat thrown from a 10-story window is just as likely to survive as a cat thrown from a lower window.
Really? I thought that they were less likely to survive if the window was sufficiently low that they didn't have time to get in a safe landing position.
Then again, not a fan of Mythbusters, so it's not like I saw the ep.