This joke gets posted so frequently, it should be eligible for flyer miles.
km/h lady, km/h. Or m/s at least.
Yeah, for most parents, measuring age in months ends right around the one year mark. For obvious reasons.
That and there’s no way the kid in this cartoon is 32 months. That’s 2 years, 8 months. Walking and talking and likely ~15kg. While not impossible, that would be pretty hard to yeet up to 16.4 mph.
Yeah, for most parents, measuring age in months ends right around the one year mark.
I know plenty of parents who refer to their kid in months through year two, as you’re hitting milestones every month or two (vaccines, physical/psychological development, age limit for certain pharmaceuticals, etc) and “2 years” is such a big milestone for them all.
Also, kids who are premature make things extra complicated. I still refer to my son as “13-months adjusted” because if I said “16-months” people would wonder why he was so small.
While I agree with you, I also have to say that a significant percentage of people have no idea of the size difference between 13 and 16 months, and that saying 13 months adjusted is a little silly, but fun! So you do you.
Oh, you like math?
Fun fact: if you take the displacement between your current position and the exact place where you were born, and divide it by your age, you can get your average velocity
Hum… At about 100m/year right now. I used to be faster than that.
holy shit looks like I’ve been velocitating at an average of 0,024 km/h due south-east. It’s pretty slow
Ts ts ts. Not metric enough.
The only useful miles is Miles O’brien.
Not useful, but kind of cool:
Miles Davis
As someone who loves jazz, that’s a bit more than just “kind of” cool. He’s a pillar in the genre.
I know, I just couldn’t resist the ‘kind of Blue’/‘birth of cool’ joke
Not vector enough either.
What about Miles Prower?
We don’t have metric months, only imperial month’s. Yeah, you can convert them, but I don’t want to deal with the number of bee wing flaps per 13,7 minutes at sea level right now.
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Metric is for people who don’t have a floating point coprocessor in their head.
Yeah it’s so useful to know the division table of the units so you can break it down, like how a mile is 1760 yards so I know that half a mile is… uh…
Guess that’s why the text uses decimal point miles.
Velocity is speed in a given direction. She only calculated speed.
Also, air resistance was acting on the baby immediately after it left the hands accelerating it. So was she reporting peak speed or the speed several feet away as shown in the frame of the comic. Additionally, she could have easily avoided this ambiguity if she stated the hypothetical speed of the baby being as if it was thrown in a vacuum, but she didn’t do that either. Its just pure laziness really.
Assuming the baby is a spherical point mass in a vacuum is so 101.
spherical point
That’s a new kind of math, definitely not 101.
Sphere with radius zero. Problem solved 🤣
But then quantum mechanics are significant, and you have black hole.
Black holes are GR and it wouldn’t make the calculations much different. Take the moon for example, the orbit would be exactly the same no matter if earth is a rocky planet, a black hole or a point mass.
Yeah, but how are you gonna throw a black hole baby?
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also, reaction time for the average human is around 300ms, and, since you can only measure speed after looking at it for at least a little bit, which makes this even more undefined: is that the speed where she started perceiving the throw, the time she completed the calculation or the time she finished spelling it out?
She also likes extra apostrophes.
Or is “month’s” a contraction of something?
nobody says 32 months
Looks pretty young for a 32 m.o.
She couldn’t even get the plural of “month” correct, you want her to know the difference between months and weeks?
That’s physics though.
A paradox that I crossposted this from [email protected]
