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  1. 12-04-2008, 11:04 PM #1
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    Ferris, yeah, a bouncing ball would probably be easier to explain than my column of smoke. But,...

    cyberiot, If viewed from outside the transparant boxcar, you will associate external objects with the smoke's rise. Let's say the car is moving from left to right of you, and is moving 5 feet a minute. If a puff of smoke escapes the fire and you watch it rise for one minute...the car will have moved 5 feet...and the puff of smoke will have moved that same 5 feet...and in the same direction as the car has moved...forward. Now, to an observer *in* the car, the smoke will have only gone straight up. Same with the bouncing ball.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Caplock50 View Post
    Ferris, yeah, a bouncing ball would probably be easier to explain than my column of smoke. But,...

    cyberiot, If viewed from outside the transparant boxcar, you will associate external objects with the smoke's rise. Let's say the car is moving from left to right of you, and is moving 5 feet a minute. If a puff of smoke escapes the fire and you watch it rise for one minute...the car will have moved 5 feet...and the puff of smoke will have moved that same 5 feet...and in the same direction as the car has moved...forward. Now, to an observer *in* the car, the smoke will have only gone straight up. Same with the bouncing ball.
    Oh! . . . Oh!!!! . . . I GET IT!!!! I GET IT!!!! I GET IT!!!! WOOHOO!!!

    I was ramping up to ask more questions, then you turned the lightbulb went on. Daggone it, Caplock, where were you when I was taking science class? I was operating under a faulty set of premises, the chief one being that the smoke would be wafting at an angle other than perpendicular to the boxcar floor. Bad premise, bad results. D'oh!

    Thanks for taking the time to help me connect the dots. I really don't wanna die stupid, if I can help it.
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    Well, cyberiot, you got no worries there, Friend. You ain't going to die stupid...because you ain't stupid. If you were, you wouldn't be a member here. Er, this *is* the Mensa website, isn't it?
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    Looks like Wyoming, Montana, and Nevada may be the places to be should the world, as we know it, crumble. I run a delivery route in the Rocky Mountains west of Denver. You might think that we could run to "them thar hills" but there are as many people living there as there are in Denver. It's a madhouse in many mountain towns and hamlet communities.
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