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evan price wrote:When I was in Olympics of the Mind in high school, ...
The teacher expelled me from the group for the rest of the semester.
I bet you can find the height of a building with a barometer, too.
Yes, there's more than one way to do that.
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Weetabix wrote:Evan would give it to the building superintendent if the guy would just tell him how high the building is.
I figured he'd drop it off the roof and record how long it took to fall. That would be my method of choice.
If they specified you still had to have a usable barometer at the end, I'd tie a rope to it and lower it off the roof like I was taking a sounding. Or sit it next to the building and measure the shadows of building and barometer. Or step back from the building a ways and hold it in front of your face so the barometer and the building occupy the same angular distance (think "I'm crushing your head!") and compare the distances to barometer and building.
Air pressure is boring.
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Weetabix wrote:The rope for a sounding is too direct. Swing it like a pendulum and measure its period, then back-calculate the rope length from that.
I'm not subtle. Using the rope at all is too indirect for my taste. But I like that one, I wouldn't have thought of it.
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For not subtle: Find the superintendent. Knock him out with the barometer. Rifle through his office until you find the building plans. Read the height.
Note to self: start reading sig lines. They're actually quite amusing. :D
Weetabix wrote:For not subtle: Find the superintendent. Knock him out with the barometer. Rifle through his office until you find the building plans. Read the height.
That's a new one.
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Weetabix wrote:For not subtle: Find the superintendent. Knock him out with the barometer. Rifle through his office until you find the building plans. Read the height.
Oh I like that. Or use the window washer scaffold and use the barometer like a yardstick to measure the height of the building.
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Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
But I like that one, I wouldn't have thought of it.
