Science WTF Sunday
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I will be doing a post every Sunday with a Science theme, but not your ordinary stuff.
None of that plain school book science stuff, this is going to be the “Ripleys Believe or not” of science posts, the Cirque Du Soleil of science stuff but without those creepy mimes.
Curiosities off the beaten path, paradoxes of the mind, things that will make you go….. WTF?
Since this is just an introduction, I will leave with just a small teaser.
Where does the missing hole come from? WTF?
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I missed it only cause the brains of the outfit, Dulce, escaped into the backyard.
Solution to Science WTF Sunday…
This is known as the Fibonacci puzzle because of the dimensions used as parts of the puzzle (2, 3, 5, 8, 13)
The four figures (the yellow, red, blue and green shapes) total 32 units of area, but the triangles are 13 wide and 5 tall, so it seems that the area should be 32.5 units.
But the blue triangle has a ratio of 5:2 (=2.500:1),while the red triangle has the ratio 8:3 (≈2.667:1),and these are not the same ratio. So the apparent combined hypotenuse in each figure is actually bent.
The amount of bending is around 1/28th of a unit, which is difficult to see on the diagram of this puzzle. Note the grid point where the red and blue hypotenuses meet, and compare it to the same point on the other figure; the edge is slightly over or under the mark. Overlaying the hypotenuses from both figures results in a very thin parallelogram with the area of exactly one grid square, the same area “missing” from the second figure.
Let me finish this beer, I might be able to answer the question WTF??
Well what I see is a groinangle bordering on a thighangle. So when the former moves over the latter, shifting the bonerangle, it exposes a weakness, i.e. the hole. There. Simple. Simple. Simple. Most exciting indeed Mr. Science.
MadMike, everyone knows the bonerangle applies only to circles and not triangles.
Okay I’ll bite. It’s made up of a small portion of each of the squares touching the colored area running diagonally.
And you thought I didn’t have a serious side. 😛
Just don’t ask me to do the math for this.
If I understand you right, I think you got it!
WTF? There’s a missing hole????
…..my arse
‘The Royal Family’…BBC TV 1998 – 2000
Er, uh…I don’t know Mr. Science. Where TF does the hole come from?
I can tell lawyer sarcasm when I read it….
I’m beginning to think it’s an optical illusion. No it’s not. Yes it is. I don’t know.
WTF beats a hangover! I’m intrigued but Dulce wants to know what’s in it for her.
Tell her you will spend an hour in quiet contemplation of her butthole. That always works for me.
Also a great icebreaker when meeting someone new.
Always worked for me. Wait. Are you talking about cats?
This may explain my lack of success with the ladies. That, and weighing under 160 lbs.
Of course! No way would I stand agape at a HUMAN’S leather starfish (unless I was a proctologist being paid by the minute for it). But lock onto a cat’s red eye with your own “third eye” and you’ve opened up a psychic mind-meld a Vulcan would envy. Mike, you can try this with your dog, but it will most likely fart right in your face so I don’t recommend it.
Not sure how to reply to this really….from puzzle to leather starfish in less than 7 degrees of separation. Incredibly, not even close to the record for MH.
Krell I guess you got to watch her every minute!
LOL! WTF???
When you live with Krell, every day is Science WTF Sunday.
Somehow I can see that MH 🙂
Huh??