Highly Dangerous Situation

[bigbadbrody]

You are driving in a car at a constant speed. On your right side is a valley and on your left side is a fire engine traveling at the same speed as you.

In front of you is a galloping pig which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it. Behind you is a helicopter flying at ground level.

Both the giant pig and the helicopter are also traveling at the same speed as you.


Question : What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?




For the answer click and drag your mouse from star to star.

* Get your drunk ass off the merry-go-round. *

 

[chalet0005]

I have heard the joke before and still love it!

 

[Dutchman]

Funny joke!!

 

[D-rock]

Ironic, since something moving like that would be one of the worst places you could end up while drunk. Oh well, at least if it’s moving fast enough the centripetal force will create interesting vomit trails as you spin around.

 

[Slam]

...! Are you insane? Getting off the merry-go-round would put you in far greater danger as your vechile would also become another potential hazard. Best thing you could do is hold on for dear life, hope your speed remains constant and nothing moves out of the perfect balance it is in till the proper authorities can come save your ass!

 

[DrMotorcity]

In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky and they stand there...

You are driving in a car at a constant speed. On your right side is a valley and on your left side is a fire engine traveling at the same speed as you.

It would be impossible for the fire engine to be traveling at the same speed as "you." Depending on the direction of rotation of the m-g-'r, the fire engine would either be going faster or slower—and not at the same speed—unless, of course "you" happen to be riding sideways (not an unlikely happenstance, given one's "condition" as expressed at the end of this conundrum), in which case it would then be impossible for both the helo and the pig to be traveling at the same speed as "you"—but they, as in "themselves," would be traveling at the same speed as each other, regardless of what exactly it was that you were up to that day.

Take a knife to the extreme edge of a vinyl record album in such a fashion that the sound groove may be unreeled in a continuous, linear configuration, and then attempt to "replay" the recording through a specially devised machine which draws the vinyl strip at a constant speed past the stylus, as a capstan/ roller assembly does to magnetic tape in a tape machine, and "you" will readily observe that the pitch of the recording will uniformly increase at a constant rate from what now was the "outer" edge of the vinal disk as it proceeds towards the very end of the track.

It's O.K., you can try this at home, and I am resolute in the belief that doing so will only enhance the listenability of any Aerosmith album released in the past twenty years or so.

 

[AFA]

Yes, I believe I see your logic. Those pigs, ponies and rocket ships traveling closer to the outer edge of the merry go round, would be moving at a much greater rate of speed then those pigs, ponies and rocket ships toward the center of the rotation.

I believe NASA first discovered this phenomena when considering using the Moon's gravity in a similar loop to build up momentum and propel satellite's into outer space.

:jester:

 

[dave_rhino]

I believe NASA first discovered this phenomena when considering using the Moon's gravity in a similar loop to build up momentum and propel satellite's into outer space.

Must of been drunk aswell

 

[bigbadbrody]

Gosh Its just a joke guys:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

[DrMotorcity]

Gosh Its just a joke guys:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Yes, we thought it as being funny.

 

[nicking]

I really don't understand the joke!