Scenario: Person A of height 1.63m is moving at a constant velocity of 1.3 ms-1 towards west, carrying an unzipped bag on her right shoulder with a 0.1m x 0.1m opening. Bird B is flying at a constant velocity of 15 ms-1 towards north, 2m above Person A, carrying a 0.1m x 0.1m soaked piece of bread (C) of mass 0.3 kg in its beak. Bird B releases Bread C at unknown time t.
Question: Assume that there is no air resistance, calculate the probability of Bread C landing directly into Person A’s bag.
Answer: Apparently not zero.
Source: Life.
P.S. Yes, this could have been much, much worse.
P.P.S. I hate birds.
Vickie Diablos is an unemployable bum allegedly qualified to work in the health field, a hardcore gamer geek and a socially awkward logic and science nerd. She thought keeping a "cool blog" would make her a cool person. Alas. 




Keat
26 Aug 2010
2:40 am
hi ya, nice blog you have here
Vickie
26 Aug 2010
10:36 am
Hi!
I just wanted to let you know…my name is Vickie and I also am Cantonese (Assuming that since you came from Hong Kong, that you know some sort of Cantonese). I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE MISPELL MY NAME TOO. I just wanted to say that.
Cool blog you have here too! Bye!
Vickie
26 Aug 2010
10:49 am
ALL CANTONESE-SPEAKING VICKIES UNITE!
Meg
26 Aug 2010
2:24 pm
If I were you, I would not have turned a slightly unfortunate situation into an infinitely more unfortunate one by making it into a physics problem. Eeek physics.
Also, I’m really happy for you that it was soggy bread and not bird shit.
Whitney
2 Sep 2010
2:17 am
that is… so unfortunate.
if it makes you feel any better, my friend had her sun roof open while driving, and a bird pooped, and it went directly into the sunroof, (luckily) missed her head, and splattered/covered the entire back seat. she didn’t even see it until 2 days later. (semi) lucky for her, she had leather seats.
at least it landed in your bag and not your face.