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Comment Re:Biking is better (Score 1) 342

The one time I rode a neighbor's recumbent, I found hills are about the same as a regular bike. Because your back is against a backrest, I could push harder on the pedals. On an upright bike once you push hard enough to lift yourself off the seat you have maxed out. The best thing for hills is just to gear way down.

Comment Re:Why... (Score 1) 1113

"In the beginning, there was nothing. Then it exploded". - My irony detector doesn't seem to be working today. I can't tell if this comment is making fun of the religious interpretation of the big bang, or is a straw man deliberately misrepresenting what the big bang is.

"In the beginning, everything was in one place. Then it expanded in all directions. And, it's still expanding today"

Comment Re:Oh Boeing... (Score 4, Informative) 403

What? The sonic boom is generated by the passing of the shockwave from an aircraft flying overhead at supersonic speed. It doesn't just happen once when the aircraft "breaks the sound barrier". The shockwave is produced as long as the aircraft is flying at supersonic speeds. Everywhere that the trailing shock wave passes over will experience the sonic boom.

Comment Re:It will be like this (Score 1) 265

1. It's a math joke. Why have you lumped engineers and doctors together? The amount and depth of the math studied by those two groups is entirely different.

2. We didn't think we were superior to eveybody (remember now, the professor was an Artsman) just the dizzy girl in the front row.

3. "Engineering students and doctors and other professional degrees can't even balance their own checkbook" - citation needed.

Comment It will be like this (Score 2) 265

True Story: -Engineers at my school had to take 15 units of Arts courses as part of their studies, and Economics 100 was one of the popular choices. We had an Econ 100 class that matched a hole in the 3rd year mech and EE schedule, as a result we had about 2/3 engineers and 1/3 Arts students.

One day the prof, a very smart man with a subtle sense of humor, drew a graph of some function on the board. He drew the x and y axes, a straight line with a 45 degree slope and labelled the x intercept "a" and the y intercept "b". One of the girls from Arts puts up her hand and says "I don't think it should be that steep". The prof erases the line, redraws it half as steep and labels the x intercept "a" and the y intercept "b". "How's that" he says."Much better" says Arts girl.

Every engineer in the place falls over laughing. We laugh even harder as we see the confused look on Arts girl's face as she tries to figure out what's so damned funny. The prof never cracks a smile.

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