What is Fun: Definition and 427 Discussions

here is one of my favorites Ok, Imagine you are on a small island. Now, At this moment, lava is cascading down all sides of a volcano. You can not stay on this island and survive. Now, in the water surrounding this island their is a complete ring of people in boats with guns, who have to...

A child is lying on her back. The tension in the muscles of her neck is 55N as she raises her head to look past her toes and out the motel window. Ten minutes later she is screaming and sliding feet first down a water slide at a constant speed of 5.7 m/s in a horizontal curve of radius 2.40 m...

Picture two indentical circles with their radii overlapping. They form an intersection, what is the area of their intersection? I solved it the calculus route and it can be solved geometrically. Have fun.

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Hi everyone :smile: ! I have been looking for some data about something fun or interesting. I've only been able to find boring things like the results to a coin toss. Does anyone know of a website that has real data on something fun or interesting? ~Thanks

Many of the people here hate school, but I love school. Beneath all the hard work is fun, entertainment and an endless supply of excuses. Most of you probably don't even realized how great these things are until you've lost them. For starters, the girls are great. Where else do you get to sit...

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. A stone is thrown vertically upward at a speed of 45.50 m/s at time t=0. A second stone is thrown upward with the same speed 3.810 seconds later. 1) At what time are the two stones at the same height? 2) At what height do the...

What is it with them that makes them deserve it, while I have to miss out? What am I a spastic? I guess the fun comes in proportion with how much you are above a spastic... but if I know this then how could I be unaware, un-spastic?

As some theory resuly, in p or n, there is a tini wormhole, to pass the tini hole, only by a neutrino. Naturely lower enerty is super. To freeze p or n self whirlpoor in one direction by strong enough magnetic field. and pole the neutrino by strong laser beam structure. After some neutrino to...

Hello all, I am wanting to major in physics, and plan on going to graduate school. I am only in my freshman year, and taking basic classes but the math classes are very fun. Are the graduate level classes for the maths and physics fun?

Something occurred to me tonight as I watched the latest on the Iraq situation. I am just passing this on as some wild speculation that seems to make a bit of sense. Going into the war, I was extremely concerned that we had been duped. To me, Powell's presentation to the UN had all the...

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American dignity and freedom in Iraq? The great feeling of having the power? Shame on US ... bring prisoners to JUSTICE ?. What justice? Sick Justice. A photo from TV shows an Iraqi prisoner with a hood over his head, standing on a box and with wires connected to his hands. Photo: Sky News...

Fun problem: ? x / (x^2 + 6x + 10) dx Integration by parts proves 1=1! My mathematical fame is at hand! So how would you do this one?

How would the concept of having fun benefit animals? To the point in which natural selection favors animals that have fun over animals that do not have fun. I know it would benefit young animals, but how would the concept of fun benefit an older animal, especially to the point in which...

I'm thinking of throwing a party in three months or so. A fad that has been getting more popular lately is a foam party. To do this you need a foam machine. Rental for one of these units is well above $100, and sometimes around $400. That's a little pricy for my budget, but I figure that with a...

Just abit of fun! Find a 5 digit number that: · Has no two identical digits. · Has two digits that are perfect squares. · Has two digits that are prime. · Has one digit that is neither prime, or a perfect square. · That has the second digit six less than the fourth...

Here's a little puzzle that may provide some amusement. (I hope it's not too trivial!) I have attached a (rough) diagram to accompany the following description. Consider an empty tank with a circular hole in its bottom. (The tank is supported by a table that also has a hole it.) Also...

0, 1, 2, 9, 44, 265 ... Assume that the sequence has no "randomly" assigned values. That is, that (perhaps apart from the first) all the elements can be deduced from the index integer (n=1,2,3, etc) and the preceding values of the sequence. I don't claim there is a unique solution or...

I'm sure most of us have, at one time or another, thought of silly greetings to leave on our answering machine. I have recently come up with one that I wish to share. I would also like to know if anyone here is the legal expertise to tell me whether or not I can legally enforce the following...

First off I would like to say that, even though this may seam like I'm just asking the question I’m supposed to answer, and hoping for freebees. That is not the case. I have a tendency of making problems that are sum what easy way harder than they have to be, and after having dun a group of...

Fun for Molecular Biologists :) Seeking romance #1 I’ve been single-stranded too long! Lonely ATGCATG would like to pair up with congenital TACGTAC. #2 Menage a trois! Ligands seeks two receptors into binding and mutual phosphorylation. Let’s get together and transduce some signals...

Test your "ESP" Just for fun folks. A simple test: http://www.eciis.org/esptest/tester2.jsp More sophisticated: http://www.mdani.demon.co.uk/para/esp1.htm Please keep all ESP arguments in the M&PS forum: https://www.physicsforums.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=30&forumid=5

If you own any type of TI calculator (82, 83, 83+, 86, 89, 92, etc.), you may not know that it can do a lot more than math! You can build a robot (http://smallrobot.com), collect data like distance, velocity and acceleration (http://www.eaiusa.com/mo__texas__instruments__calculators__CBL-CBR.htm...

""Flash mobs," in which people show up at an assigned place at a certain time, perform some brief acts, and then leave, have descended on stores, a hotel and even a piece of a park in New York." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030725/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_mob_1

I'm not sure if anyone has stumbled across this, I'm sure most of you have, but here it is just in case. In the google search thingy type: "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and then press the "I'm Feeling Lucky" Button. Enjoy.

I wonder if you could scale this experiment up with a human it could be fun, mind you I am not convinced that the pioneering little frog was alive for very long, if you watch the movie it also seems that only one side of its body works but maybe its just confused or enjoying itself :/ see...