How good is your Geography?

How good is your Geography?

  • West

    Votes: 151 93.2%

  • East

    Votes: 10 6.2%

  • Dunno

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Total voters
    162
jlw said:
They tested this on Mythbusters and found, somewhat to their own surprise, that they got less wet by walking. One theory was that running splashed up more standing water from the ground.

Don't know what theoretical physics says, but that's an experimental result.

I always figured that if the rain was falling continuously at a steady rate, the path you have to take as you walk or run forms a three-dimensional corridor in which raindrops are going to be distributed randomly. That means you'll encounter the same number of raindrops regardless of how fast you traverse the corridor. If you run, you might get more of the drops hitting you in the front, and if you walk, you might get more of the drops hitting you on top, but you'll pass through the same number of raindrops regardless as long as you don't stop moving.
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Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. Ignoring for now the possibility of splashing water due to running through puddles, the less time you spend between point A and point B, the less wet you will be. Therefore, walking will get you more wet than running.

What if you walked at a super-slow pace, let's say one one-thousandth your normal walking pace? It's obvious you would have spent 1000 times longer out in the rain, and therefore would be wetter.
 
I remember from school that Frankfort is the capitol of Kentucky.

In the 4 days I've stayed in Louisville, the locals seem to pronounce it "Loo-uh-vull"

Robin
 
Originally Posted by charjohncarter
I overheard, in a restaurant, some (US) college students (4) discussing the location of the country Scandinavia. Of course, now that we have spell-checker, I misspelled three words in the previous sentence.


erikhaugsby said:
That's really sad. Was this in California?
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No I think it is somewhere in northern Europe ;-)
 
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The previous posts in this thread predate November 2008, but it's worth noting that Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house.
 
My son's 5'th grade school teacher recently told me she thought geography was not an important subject, and that she was teaching it only because the requirement was imposed on her from higher-ups (unusual in the Catholic school system). I think this attitude towards geography is common (any teacher here want to comment?). Why school teachers in America think geography is unimportant confounds me - I think they are being brainwashed to think this by the education "establishment" (whatever exactly that is).

Knowing where you are and where other people and things are is pretty damned fundamental!
 
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