I have been know to do some VERY stupid things in my day, but..........
MJ
Re:For us engineers - a bit of fun
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:24 pm
by haoli25
EE here. That is in the realm of CE's. Right, Bear?
Bill
Re:For us engineers - a bit of fun
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:57 pm
by BigBear
haoli25 wrote:
EE here. That is in the realm of CE's. Right, Bear?
Bill
Wait, I've almost got the equation worked out! Now was acceleration squared or was it the square root? Let's see, I need to find "x" but MJ says "x" always equals 8... so "y" must equal -4, or is it +5?
Okay, I've got it! If that dude kept going he would gradually acellerate to the speed of light at which point he would warp into another dimension.
Ooooohhh, this civil engineering stuff makes my head hurt!!! :silly:
Re:For us engineers - a bit of fun
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:22 pm
by BigBear
I'm pretty sure the degree you need to pull this one off isn't in Engineering, but rather Computer Graphics...
Re:For us engineers - a bit of fun
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:23 pm
by haoli25
Damn, I forgot the distance to the pool.
Re:For us engineers - a bit of fun
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:18 pm
by Music Junkie
Knew I'd get the fun juices flowing with this one. I agree with fjvdb in that computer graphics and video editing are probably at work here, but you gotta admit, it looks like fun (or at least something that would have passed for fun back in college...)....lol
I would do it if I was flying into an olympic sized pool, but no way on earth I would do it into that little bucket!
:woohoo:
Re:For us engineers - a bit of fun
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:24 pm
by Lavallee
The difficulty is to survive the first three trials before you know where to put the pool.
Marc
Re:For us engineers - a bit of fun
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:59 pm
by tovo
The Engineer idea of fun is extremely disturbing! :blink:
Re:For us engineers - a bit of fun
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:57 pm
by wrench
check the decay in the angle of descent to the pool. there isn't any.
this video was made for a German ad for Microsoft Office, and yes, it's all graphics editing and no physics. no calculators were injured in the making of this film.
Re:For us engineers - a bit of fun
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:10 pm
by BigBear
wrench wrote:
check the decay in the angle of descent to the pool. there isn't any.
this video was made for a German ad for Microsoft Office, and yes, it's all graphics editing and no physics. no calculators were injured in the making of this film.
Maybe that's why my calculations didn't work! LMAO!! :silly:
