The posts on this thread made me laugh so hard my tummy hurt.
Well, they play fast and loose with the science on House.
Anyone who has had a real MRI knows that it’s quite noisy, as you can hear the ham being sliced. On the shows…no noise.
That’s true. It happened to my cousin. Only thing was, he didn’t come out of the MRI…in one piece. Turns out he was the one being sliced!:eek:
You just can’t hear the noise over the clicking of the cane, the witty banter, and the screams, vomiting, etc. of the patient.
So if I go to a special clinic in Minnesota for an MRI, could I get my sliced ham with cheese on rye at the Mayo?
And should I avoid jumping while on the plane there?
The plain in Spain is where you really gotta be careful.
If you were on a treadmill on a plane that I was on, you’d better start at the back wall. That would keep you from getting all smashed and stuff. But, more importantly, if the drink cart with my rum-and-coke(s) can’t get by, we’s gonna talk. Which might end with somebody getting smashed up against the back wall.
Cite?
Yeah well what happens if the plane is going at the SPEED of LIGHT and you jump? Then you’d be going faster than the speed of light and all sorts of bad things would happen I’m sure.
You may need a MRI-T, or an MRI-Tummy. Unfortunately, due to laws and regulations resulting from the 1971 fiasco, they can only be done in a plane on a treadmill at the equator.
There once was a lady named Bright,
Whose speed was much faster than light.
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night!
Odd you should mention this but in 1980 I had the opportunity to talk with Bob Haldeman. Just once and only for 20 minutes.
Anyway, he was talking about this exact thing. Seems like the code wasn’t just in reference to race. He told a story about the time Charles Nelson Reilly was aboard Air Force One (obviously this was subsequent to the event of 1971) and he was going to jump in the air. Apparently, Bebe Rebozo was there and told the pilot to radio the ground crew they had “a cone of tutti-frutti to clean up.”
(He also told the story about how Sherwood Schwartz based the Skipper/Gilligan relationship on the Eisenhower/Nixon dynamic, but I digress.)
That’s too bad. If the plane had been going fast enough close enough to one of the poles and you two jumped the right direction each time you crossed the International Date Line the conversation may have lasted indefinitely.
Ok, so one time, Randy Beaman went on a plane with his mom. And his mom said “Don’t jump, you’ll go splat in the back of the plane.” But Randy Beaman didn’t believe her, and he jumped, and he went splat in the cone in the back of the plane.
Ok, bye.
**mrklutz **for the win! I love Randy Beaman stories.
This is only theoretically possible. The Earth is pear-shaped and the stalk would collide with you rotationally.
Quoth Irishman:
Close, but not quite. The two orbits would almost certainly have slightly different periods, and the difference would probably be enough that, when the wrench came around to the same height again, the ISS would probably be in a slightly different point in its orbit, and it’d miss it. It might still eventually hit it on some later orbit, though, so it’d still be a bad idea to try it.
Oh, and I wrote a Staff Report on throwing fastballs from the Space Station, back in the day. To summarize, neglecting air resistance, you can’t hit the Earth, and with air resistance, you’ll hit the Earth eventually even without the pitch.
You’re right - it’s not just the next orbit you have to worry about, but subsequent ones as well, and as you say, it’s more likely the later ones will get you.