Troy

Linux is as buggy as you want it to be. If you’re using Gentoo or Arch in production (and aren’t Valve) and are recompiling kernels cause you read a tomshardware article about a scheduler… Then yeah 😀

It’s very possible. Napkins are notorious for stealing orders of magnitude.

I ain’t doing hyperbolic equations on my napkin ;)

Okay, napkin math… his nose is about 20cm long, and assuming it rotated about a perfect circle. The car moved say 10m. At the speed the car is moving, it covers that distance in ~120ns. So he has to move the end of his nose around a quarter circle of radius 20cm in 120ns. Let’s say 30cm total movement, for easy math. 0.25cm/ns or 0.00025m/ns. The speed of light is 0.300m/ns, so we’re talking about ~0.001c at the tip of his nose. Which is incidentally very close to the speed of sound in air.

So, probably not quite a sonic boom off the end of his nose. Assuming my math is correct. Very strong neck muscles. Also, he’s been vapourized.

Okay, just back of the envelope math. Assuming the car is truly 550nm, so the blue car is 400nm, and the red car is 700nm… How fast is the car going?

Napkin math says 0.27c.

Δλ=λ(V/c)

Now someone else can figure out the kinetic energy of the car and why the whole continent just exploded…

My third year thermodynamics course opened with a similar quip by the lecturer. Entropy is actually depressing. You can’t fight it. You can’t not fight it. It just wins.