Beep,beep!

[John Hofstetter <hofs@domain.elided>]

>Subject: Re: "Roadrunner logic"
>
>Tom Mandera wrote:
>
>> Once I figure out how much static weight the snow will support, we add in
>> another variable.. as your truck is MOVING, it "weighs" less..
>
>Dunno where you studied physics, Tom, but this sounds waaaayyyyy too much
>like "Roadrunner logic" to me.  Does this mean that if the Coyote runs fast
>enough, he'll ultimately weigh so little that he'll NEVER fall into the
>canyon? Or that at some point (when he travels fast enough to become
>lighter than the surrounding air) he'll actually begin to rise?
>
>I seem to recall learning that the horizontal and the vertical vectors were
>entirely independent of one another. <g>
>
>Bill Thebert


All I can say about that is beep,beep. No, I guess that I could say: Did
you guys see the bus cross the gap in the freeway overpass in the Sandra
Bullock movie whose name I can't remember. That proves that Wiley and Tom
may have a point.
John



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