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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 09:37:42 +0100, Jim S wrote:
... but this is the place for it http://xkcd.com/730/ g I must have missed that one. http://xkcd.com/765/ is one of my all time favourites -- |
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"Jim S" wrote in message ... ... but this is the place for it http://xkcd.com/730/ That's the secret diagram for going directly down wind faster than the wind!!!!! I think http://xkcd.com/619/ is quite apt and not related. |
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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 14:19:34 +0100, "dennis@home"
wrote: I think http://xkcd.com/619/ is quite apt and not related. I liked that. |
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:37:42 +0100, Jim S wrote:
... but this is the place for it http://xkcd.com/730/ I like many of them. My personal favourites (laminated copies on my office door!) a http://xkcd.com/205/ and http://xkcd.com/350/ -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On 8 Oct, 19:18, Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:37:42 +0100, Jim S wrote: ... but this is the place for it http://xkcd.com/730/ I like many of them. My personal favourites (laminated copies on my office door!) a *http://xkcd.com/205/ and *http://xkcd.com/350/ -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: *http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor Well, I looked at the home page ("airfoil") on that site and just found out the school description of how wings work (faster air over the top so less pressure, and the air must join back up at the far side) is actually wrong (or at least vastly over simplified). I never thought to question it. But then, how does an aircraft fly upside down? No idea why that question never popped into anyones heads at school ! At bit like A-level chemistry. I soon gave up trying to understand a few things from first principles, since you came to a different answer than the text book. I thought I was being thick, and it turned out I was the genius after all ! Simon. |
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Bob Eager writes: On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:37:42 +0100, Jim S wrote: ... but this is the place for it http://xkcd.com/730/ I like many of them. My personal favourites (laminated copies on my office door!) a http://xkcd.com/205/ and http://xkcd.com/350/ I flicked through several. I got to http://xkcd.com/214/ and thought, yep, know that scenario well... -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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sm_jamieson wrote:
On 8 Oct, 19:18, Bob Eager wrote: On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:37:42 +0100, Jim S wrote: ... but this is the place for it http://xkcd.com/730/ I like many of them. My personal favourites (laminated copies on my office door!) a http://xkcd.com/205/ and http://xkcd.com/350/ -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor Well, I looked at the home page ("airfoil") on that site and just found out the school description of how wings work (faster air over the top so less pressure, and the air must join back up at the far side) is actually wrong (or at least vastly over simplified). I never thought to question it. But then, how does an aircraft fly upside down? No idea why that question never popped into anyones heads at school ! Dont go there. It transpires that actually the Bernoulli equations are for inviscid fluids and wings would never work in inviscid gases. I do more or less understand the issues, but do you REALLY want to? At bit like A-level chemistry. I soon gave up trying to understand a few things from first principles, since you came to a different answer than the text book. I thought I was being thick, and it turned out I was the genius after all ! Yep. I remember physics..'all motion is relative'...Ok..I thought. No. It can't be 'Sir?' '..yes boy?' 'If all motion is relative, and I spin round and my arms fly out and I get dizzy, what am I spinning relative TO?' Very long silence. 'The integral of the fixed mass of the rest of the Universe'. ******* had a PHD in atomic physics so never likely to catch him out, but that was the longest he ever took to answer.. |
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