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There's that word, 'prove,' again. I don't think it means what they think it means.

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Nice day off. MST3K "The Atomic Brain"

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yeah I thought it was pretty straightforward. Can you tell me how to do the frictioness ramp/spring puzzle directly above??

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I don't actually know much physics, so I don't know which equation those things are supposed to be put into. I believe part b of that question is a trick, because if it's come to rest then it won't move. I just always loved that one for the creative way the student said "Fuck it, I don't know how to do this."

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I am reminded of one of my favorite band names - it was a cover band in South Carolina. They called themselves "The Betty Ford Experience."

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If you add two numbers, The first odd and the second even, the result is odd. If you add 1 to both numbers, the first one is now even and the second is odd, but the sum is still odd.

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Please do. I'm in Malibu. We love company.

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I feel for you. I had a hip replacement last year the day before Thanksgiving. Thank God there was booze and pie the next day.

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I’m doing fine. Getting ready for Thanksgiving across the border in NY. One of my markers is going down and the other one went up a bit. I get scanned in January and am guessing there might be treatment after. But my doc tells me there’s a new treatment about to be approved. Meanwhile I feel good. Thanks for asking.

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As long as nobody posts a recipe for that

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I love that glass!

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Very nice choice.

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It always comes to rest at the point of contact (well, except it deforms the spring, but there’s a change from kinetic to potential wherein its velocity is zero, and then potential to kinetic in the other direction)

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Literally. Just before Adobe went to Creative Clobbering, they report slightly over one billion PROFIT for the previous. And wailing "It's not enough, we're getting robbed!"

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Thanks. I have the album on vinyl. I should fire up the turntable. Maybe this weekend.

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