Douglas Keachie TWENTY
STORIES OF BuILDING ABOVE THE IMPACT ZONE, 208 feet by 208 feet. Even
the slightest depression gets the inertia train rolling, and down she
comes. Simple physics, a body in motion, and so on.
Yeah. No.
Douglas Keachie And your grade in physics was?
Didn't take physics. Took choir, and was editor of the school paper for 4 years. Didn't go to college either.
Douglas Keachie So
here is an experiment for you. Get eggs, remove contents, and fill 20
of them about 1/3 up with BB's. Now make a toothpick tower, that can
contain all 101 egg shells, the empties on the bottom. Carefully stack
them, the first 82 all empty should be
easy. #82 gets a pull string attachment, that allows you to yank it out
of the stack in a flash. The next 20 I suggest you handle very
carefully. Once the whole assembly is set up, snatch out the 82nd egg.
20 1/3 filled eggs start downwards. The equivalent of six eggs, full of
BBs, approximately. Do you think floor 81 will survive the inertia of
the eggs above coming down, 6 full eggs equivalent falling one egg
diameter downwards? I don't think so. You can do this experiment in
your head, to save time.
Yeah. Interesting. But, no. No time for experiments to prove or disprove something I've already spend at least 100 hours listening and reading information on, the proof or disproof of which would not make a significant positive impact in my life. I appreciate your commitment to your world view, though.
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