In fourth grade there was a science section about friction. One question in the section showed pictures of two tires. One tire was a racing tire, like you see on an F1 car. The other was a stubbly tire, like you see on a motocross bike.
The question was something like, which tire would do better in a race?
Everything I had learned in the section about friction (fourth grade science text) suggested that the dirt bike tire was the right answer. Thing is, I wondered why race cars don't have stubby tires. Why would they use worse tires? I was pretty sure that they wanted the dirt bike tire as the answer, but I picked race car tire and got it wrong. Now I know I was right.
I never had a problem with bullies in high school. While there were some in my school I just didn't have time to put up with their shit and they left me alone. How many of you had this childhood problem?
High school was when it ended for me. Early in high school a bully crossed the line against me in front of my my entire group of friends. Using them as witnesses I made a formal complaint and swift justice soon followed. It ended only in a warning and an apology, but I never had a serious issue ever again.
Well, if it was a race just between the tires, you'd assume it'd be rolling them down hill; In which case, the F1 wheel would get much further before falling over sideways.
Is childhood lack of material things assuaged in any way by acquiring the same things in adulthood?>
. . . or is it just not the same? I don't think it would be enjoyable to buy something you never had as a kid but always wanted. Buying something you did own as a child but had unfortunately lost can be a good experience, purely for nostalgia.
I sold all my games through the SNES area and was hit with huge regret. I never sold any game back that I enjoyed after that, and with my first paycheck out of college, I took a slice off and rewarded myself buy spending $200 on old video games. Also, I've found some old action figures I used to have at a yard sale and they make good nostalgic decoration. Jake the Snake Roberts adorns my bookshelf.
I never had a problem with bullies in high school. While there were some in my school I just didn't have time to put up with their shit and they left me alone. How many of you had this childhood problem?
I got bullied in elementary school but never had a problem after that. Non-existant in high school. Sure there were tons of jerks in the school but I didn't have to interact with them because I was in all honors classes, and did marching band in my free time. The only time I came across people that I had problems with in those early years was during spring track season, since I was a discus thrower, but they didn't give me any shit anymore cause we were on the same team.
it sucks so much when you were right and a teacher tells you you are wrong and they don't believe you
Shoot, that's a pain in the ass no matter how old you are. Fortunately in my case I got vindication out of it. In my high school geometry class the teacher had us up at the board in pairs doing some sort of problems - I think it was solving quadratics, and it was one of those "it's almost the end of the school year and I've got nothing left to teach you, so I'm going to give you something to keep you busy during class time" bullshit things, so it's not like they were massively hard. Anyway, she had called me and another girl who was the teacher's pet up to the board at the same time. She gave us the equation and I tore through it like a man possessed, and finished it before teacher's pet was halfway done. I called, "done" and the teacher barely even glanced up from the book she was reading and said, "no, that's wrong." I gave the teacher a look like she was on crack and said, "no, that's right." We argued back and forth for a minute and while we were arguing the teacher's pet came up with the same correct answer. I looked at the board, looked at the teacher, said, "I told you I was right" and stalked back to my seat. To this day I'm surprised I didn't get a detention out of that incident, considering that teacher had hated on me all year.
In our society there is a major problem with people being unable to admit, deal with, or accept being wrong about almost anything. Perhaps this is in some way ingrained in us by the example set by educators never being wrong.
6b. Nerd asserts himself and fights back. 7b. Nerd is punished for doing so. 8b. Repeat.
This. multiple times. And of course, I was always one of the tall kids so the adults just always assumed I must be the bully.
Its kind of stupid, but I remember one time at lunch I was eating spaghetti O's. I happened to like eating them with crackers, and scooped up the spaghetti O's with the cracker. Some punk kid went and told a teacher that, and she made me come sit with her and the teachers "until I know how to eat properly" or something like that. I never understood how that was even remotely punishable.
I've told this multiple times on there but it fits. In my 6th grade science class we were learning about evolution, and my teacher didn't believe in human evolution and said that it only exists to prove there is no god. Well we had to write a paper about evolution and I basically showed some examples and said that people against human evolution are ignoring mountains of evidence and are just being ignorant. The next day he proceeded to have a rant in the class about how we need to respect other peoples beliefs. He never mentioned my name but he quoted my paper and gave me the evil eye several times. That's one of the things that has pissed me off the most in my childhood.
I never had a problem with bullies in high school. While there were some in my school I just didn't have time to put up with their shit and they left me alone. How many of you had this childhood problem?
I got teased in 5th grade about my bunny because I gave a satisfying reaction. There were rumors about me in high school that I was gay, because I didn't really care about boys, cut my hair short, and liked sports and being tough a lot. I never got pushed around or anything, but boys would occasionally be like "Yo dyke!" I never got real bullied, though. It was just typical annoying high school BS. Nothing major. Besides, being gay and owning a rabbit are two things that I never found to be very insulting.
In our society there is a major problem with people being unable to admit, deal with, or accept being wrong about almost anything. Perhaps this is in some way ingrained in us by the example set by educators never being wrong.
I would think it's more about how being right is expected and being wrong is punished. I am not rewarded for driving the speed limit, but I am sure as hell punished for going over it.
It was a car race, and even rally cars don't have dirt bike tires with spokes.
Ummmm, yes they do. The tires are wider than dirt bikes, and the tread patterns more advanced maybe, but essentially they use knobbly tires much like dirt bikes. Now I shall explain why this is.
The coefficient of friction is low on loose surfaces like dirt or snow. Dirt bikes and rally car use knobbly tires to dig into in the loose surface, thus maximizing the surface area of the tire (you get to use the entire surface area of the spike, rather than just the end of the point). This does not work on tarmac racing as the surface will not be deformed, the road is harder than the tire. Using knobbly tires on a hard surface like this would result in only the tips of the tread touching the road. So for grip on a track you want smooth, wide tires to maximize the amount of rubber in contact with the road. F1 racing tires take this even further in that they are extremely soft and actually deform to the imperfections on the road. Like a dirt tire working in reverse, this has the effect of increasing the surface area of the tire that is in contact with the road. This combined with downforce and a tire compound that is actually sticky when hot is the reason they can generate such immense cornering forces.
Ummmm, yes they do. The tires are wider than dirt bikes, and the tread patterns more advanced maybe, but essentially they use knobbly tires much like dirt bikes. Now I shall explain why this is.
I know they are nobbly, but what I am saying is that the picture in the text book showed many small spokes, like a bicycle tire. No car has had spokes like that in decades. Maybe some Cadillacs with the white wall tires.
Ummmm, yes they do. The tires are wider than dirt bikes, and the tread patterns more advanced maybe, but essentially they use knobbly tires much like dirt bikes. Now I shall explain why this is.
I know they are nobbly, but what I am saying is that the picture in the text book showed many small spokes, like a bicycle tire. No car has had spokes like that in decades. Maybe some Cadillacs with the white wall tires.
Sounds to me like an extremely poorly worded question, or a poor recollection of said question. Given some of the questions I remember, I'd go with the former. They should bar physics teachers from talking about tires, they really don't understand them.
I was bullied in the 6th grade, and mostly in Gym class by a class of 5-7 guys. Their tormenting was relentless, but I would always go tell the gym teacher and the administration of the school. They would constantly talk to the boys, but they would keep coming back and tease and pick on me more. Eventually, one of them hit me in the face with a lacrosse stick which almost broke it and left a trail of my blood going through the locker room that as of my graduation from Middle School, was still there. Needless to say, the kid got suspended. Luckily for me, this was the year that I found out about my partial blindness and was able to get a doctor's note that got me out of gym for the rest of the year and put into art for 3 quarters (in my Middle School, you took all of the electives in a year and they would change every quarter. You have gym for 3 quarters and every other elective for 1). My art teacher even made up new projects for me to do since I was there longer than everyone else.
Oh, and I was generally disliked by almost everyone in my High School class, but that was because I answered most of the teachers questions and got away with a lot of stuff because I got my work done.
I got in trouble at school today because a teacher didn't understand what I was doing in the computer lab and didn't listen when I explained it to them. My school really sucks.
On more that one occasion I was nearly expelled for "hacking", which was usually just me using the command line to FTP schoolwork to my home so I wouldnt have to carry a floppy with me.
I was once suspended from middle school for 3 days for picking up a bully by the throat and throwing him a few feet away after he rippped a necklace, given to me by a girl I had a crush on, off my neck. The only reason I wasn't expelled was because the faculty pretty much knew that guy had picked me as his peronal punching bag (not because he touched me first). Fucker never so much as looked at me again.
Ya, all I did was sftp my report, realize my school doesn't have the font I used/formats my report weird, vnc to change it to pdf and sftp again. I didn't even use a command line, I got a gui ssh program.
If you haven't been in trouble for doing something wrong on your school's computer system, even if it's legit, there's no way you could be a GeekNights listener.
Perhaps that is the greatest injustice to children is that they have no respect in society. I mean, it's already injustice enough that they don't have any rights, but no respect is even worse. If a 12 year old is right, and the 30 year old is wrong, then that's how it is. Raise the kid up, don't bring him down.
From 11 to 14 I kept being raped by this one guy. When I finally got the courage to avoid his threats I went to the school. No adults took it seriously and my family thought I was making it up to get back at him. It because I was a "bad" girl because I cussed, lash out at bullies and wasn't godly enough at church. After all was said and done at school I remember my aunt who had to pick me up complaining that because of me she missed out on her free Thanksgiving turkey. It was my own fault back then for not being strong enough.
It was my own fault back then for not being strong enough.
No. No it was not.
Yeah it was. I could of done something much earlier, but I didn't. I was too submissive then. It was long ago though and it doesn't affect me. It's just chalked up to other experiences you know.
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The question was something like, which tire would do better in a race?
Everything I had learned in the section about friction (fourth grade science text) suggested that the dirt bike tire was the right answer. Thing is, I wondered why race cars don't have stubby tires. Why would they use worse tires? I was pretty sure that they wanted the dirt bike tire as the answer, but I picked race car tire and got it wrong. Now I know I was right.
I don't think it would be enjoyable to buy something you never had as a kid but always wanted. Buying something you did own as a child but had unfortunately lost can be a good experience, purely for nostalgia.
I sold all my games through the SNES area and was hit with huge regret. I never sold any game back that I enjoyed after that, and with my first paycheck out of college, I took a slice off and rewarded myself buy spending $200 on old video games. Also, I've found some old action figures I used to have at a yard sale and they make good nostalgic decoration. Jake the Snake Roberts adorns my bookshelf.
I got bullied in elementary school but never had a problem after that. Non-existant in high school. Sure there were tons of jerks in the school but I didn't have to interact with them because I was in all honors classes, and did marching band in my free time. The only time I came across people that I had problems with in those early years was during spring track season, since I was a discus thrower, but they didn't give me any shit anymore cause we were on the same team.
In our society there is a major problem with people being unable to admit, deal with, or accept being wrong about almost anything. Perhaps this is in some way ingrained in us by the example set by educators never being wrong.
Its kind of stupid, but I remember one time at lunch I was eating spaghetti O's. I happened to like eating them with crackers, and scooped up the spaghetti O's with the cracker. Some punk kid went and told a teacher that, and she made me come sit with her and the teachers "until I know how to eat properly" or something like that. I never understood how that was even remotely punishable.
I've told this multiple times on there but it fits. In my 6th grade science class we were learning about evolution, and my teacher didn't believe in human evolution and said that it only exists to prove there is no god. Well we had to write a paper about evolution and I basically showed some examples and said that people against human evolution are ignoring mountains of evidence and are just being ignorant. The next day he proceeded to have a rant in the class about how we need to respect other peoples beliefs. He never mentioned my name but he quoted my paper and gave me the evil eye several times. That's one of the things that has pissed me off the most in my childhood.
(you know you did, you know you did you know you did).
until I learned to spell.
The coefficient of friction is low on loose surfaces like dirt or snow. Dirt bikes and rally car use knobbly tires to dig into in the loose surface, thus maximizing the surface area of the tire (you get to use the entire surface area of the spike, rather than just the end of the point). This does not work on tarmac racing as the surface will not be deformed, the road is harder than the tire. Using knobbly tires on a hard surface like this would result in only the tips of the tread touching the road. So for grip on a track you want smooth, wide tires to maximize the amount of rubber in contact with the road. F1 racing tires take this even further in that they are extremely soft and actually deform to the imperfections on the road. Like a dirt tire working in reverse, this has the effect of increasing the surface area of the tire that is in contact with the road. This combined with downforce and a tire compound that is actually sticky when hot is the reason they can generate such immense cornering forces.
Oh, and I was generally disliked by almost everyone in my High School class, but that was because I answered most of the teachers questions and got away with a lot of stuff because I got my work done.
I was once suspended from middle school for 3 days for picking up a bully by the throat and throwing him a few feet away after he rippped a necklace, given to me by a girl I had a crush on, off my neck. The only reason I wasn't expelled was because the faculty pretty much knew that guy had picked me as his peronal punching bag (not because he touched me first). Fucker never so much as looked at me again.
Perhaps that is the greatest injustice to children is that they have no respect in society. I mean, it's already injustice enough that they don't have any rights, but no respect is even worse. If a 12 year old is right, and the 30 year old is wrong, then that's how it is. Raise the kid up, don't bring him down.