The universe according to MMM

[webny99]

Anyway, so is one of the guys in that video Scott5114?

No. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's SSOWorld.

[kphoger]

I don't know why kphoger deleted most of his previous post, but it appears to be an unintuitive part of how BBCode works and not a bug at all.

I deleted it because I realized posting a full YouTube URL between the tags still displays a video correctly.  So the bulk of what I originally posted was incorrect information.

All of these formats correctly display a video on this site:

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[youtube]https://youtu.be/TT89lJTAPms[/youtube]

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https://youtu.be/TT89lJTAPms

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[youtube]TT89lJTAPms[/youtube]

But what MultiDozenMiler had posted was this:

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/live/Le52HVJZy[/youtube]

Note the "/live/" part.  When I paste that URL into my browser, it returns a page that says "This video isn't available anymore".

[kkt]

This thread should be renamed to Alanland II, it already reached absurdity levels way beyond the original Alanland thread.

It's different because MMM actually is taking this all seriously.

Are you sure?  I don't think he's taking it any more seriously than any other troll.

[MultiMillionMiler]

Can someone add a poll to this forum with the following 4 options:

1. MMM is one of the few users who brought stability and intelligence to this forum, lessening the need for "Don't let on how crazy we are" in the intro board

2. Intelligent Ideas, but presents them in a Trollish Manner

3. Master Troll, straddles the line of being banned but very hard to believe he is actually attempting to troll.

4. Terrible Troll, 2 out of 10 for effort, painfully obvious.

Now I dont think 2, 3, and 4 are accurate, I am basing these options on what other users have said in this thread. My money would be on at least 53% choosing option #1.

Edit: OK to be conservative my guess would be 47% would choose #1, 23% would choose #2, and an even split between the other two.

[kalvado]

Two cars hitting each other at 50 mph is the same as one car hitting another stationary car at 100 mph.

Only because there are two cars involved.  For each car, it's the same as one car hitting a granite wall.

(And actually, not even, because a stationary car would absorb some of the impact, such that the driver would experience less than 50 mph impact.)

Nope. COM frame of reference would still be moving in ground frame of reference.

[webny99]

Can someone add a poll to this forum with the following 4 options:

1. MMM is one of the few users who brought stability and intelligence to this forum

OK, right off the bat, you can make the poll yourself if you really want to (however, I don't recommend making a poll about yourself).

More importantly, there are more than a "few users" that have actually brought stability and intelligence to the forum, so the premise of the statement is flawed. But even setting that aside, you already know full well that no one thinks that about you, and everyone knows that the forum's stability is largely unchanged - or if anything, gotten slightly worse - since you've joined.

[MultiMillionMiler]

It was a figure of speech saying "few", I didn't mean to imply that most of the users are bad.

[hotdogPi]

OK, right off the bat, you can make the poll yourself if you really want to (however, I don't recommend making a poll about yourself).

Max Rockatansky is the OP.

[Roadgeekteen]

Can someone add a poll to this forum with the following 4 options:

1. MMM is one of the few users who brought stability and intelligence to this forum, lessening the need for "Don't let on how crazy we are" in the intro board

2. Intelligent Ideas, but presents them in a Trollish Manner

3. Master Troll, straddles the line of being banned but very hard to believe he is actually attempting to troll.

4. Terrible Troll, 2 out of 10 for effort, painfully obvious.

Now I dont think 2, 3, and 4 are accurate, I am basing these options on what other users have said in this thread. My money would be on at least 53% choosing option #1.

Edit: OK to be conservative my guess would be 47% would choose #1, 23% would choose #2, and an even split between the other two.

47% voting 1  maybe 4.7%!

[kkt]

Would the poll have actual consequences?  For instance, if option 1 gets less than 45% of the vote, MMM goes away for at least a few months?

[triplemultiplex]

And how do we know that MMM is not George Santos himself?

Because he's Wesley Crusher, obviously.

Wesley Crusher was annoying because he was too smart.
That's not what's going here.

[kkt]

And how do we know that MMM is not George Santos himself?

Because he's Wesley Crusher, obviously.

Wesley Crusher was annoying because he was too smart.
That's not what's going here.

Wesley was annoying because way too often the writers would have him save the ship.  Like the Enterprise has no actual officers who know their jobs.

[Roadgeekteen]

Looks like Max added a different type of polll 

[SectorZ]

I don't know much about physics myself, but the wording I've often seen used in news articles when referring to head-on collisions is something along the lines of "two vehicles crashed into each other at a combined speed of 100 MPH." (100 MPH being an example combined speed.)

Yeah, the entire collision had a combined speed of 100 mph, I suppose (someone with more physics knowledge, please confirm or deny).  But there were two cars involved.  Each one felt half the force, i.e. 50 mph (assuming they were both going 50 mph and had equal size and mass).

Now imagine that oncoming car is a loaded 18-wheeler tandem

The car would still experience less than 100 mph in the collision.  More than 50 mph, certainly, but less than 100 mph.

If you want to get to 100 mph experienced by one of the parties, then you'd need something like a dragonfly hitting the front bumper of a turnpike double, and both going 50 mph head-on.  The dragonfly would experience 100 mph, and the trucker would experience nothing.

Even if each car feels only half of the force, whatever force they do feel is multiplied by a deceleration from 100, not 50. But I don't think that's correct anyway. Two cars hitting each other at 50 mph is the same as one car hitting another stationary car at 100 mph. But I do maintain that atomic clocks are a scam, and I'm not the only physics need who feels that way.

Ever watch Mythbusters? They did it, and proved it by...

1) smashing a car against a wall at 50 MPH
2) smashing a car against a wall at 100 MPH
3) smashing two cars head-on, each going 50 MPH

The cars in 1 and 3 looked exactly the same, whereas the one in 2 would be so beyond a survivable event for even rear-seat passengers (they used the same year Hyundai Elantra for all four destroyed cars)

I'd link Youtube but any I found were pulled due to Discovery asking them to be pulled.

It was good, because it didn't demonstrate with math, it demonstrated with physical results. Even a doubting Thomas like you would probably be convinced.

[SectorZ]

Looks like Max added a different type of polll 

I voted Morshu

And when M³ bites the dust here, my reaction...

[Max Rockatansky]

Looks like Max added a different type of polll 

I voted Morshu

And when M³ bites the dust here, my reaction...

I'm sorry Wesley Crusher, I can't give credit.  Come back when you're a little...MMM...richer!

[kphoger]

I voted Peewee Herman, because that's the only person in the poll I've ever heard of.  Therefore, it's the only person I'm confident exists in reality.  And I'm pretty sure MMM exists in reality.  (Don't read that the wrong way...)

[kkt]

I never heard of Morshu and haven't seen enough to PeeWee Herman to vote for him, so I voted Wesley.

[kphoger]

It was good, because it didn't demonstrate with math, it demonstrated with physical results. Even a doubting Thomas like you would probably be convinced.

In the universe according to MMM, physical reality is a scam.

[Roadgeekteen]

It was good, because it didn't demonstrate with math, it demonstrated with physical results. Even a doubting Thomas like you would probably be convinced.

In the universe according to MMM, physical reality is a scam.

MMM probably thinks that the government created the video as propoganda.

[dlsterner]

I voted Peewee Herman, because that's the only person in the poll I've ever heard of.  Therefore, it's the only person I'm confident exists in reality.  And I'm pretty sure MMM exists in reality.  (Don't read that the wrong way...)

Peewee Herman ... Movie Theaters
MMM ... ST:TNG

You may be on to something.

[roadman65]

I voted Peewee Herman, because that's the only person in the poll I've ever heard of.  Therefore, it's the only person I'm confident exists in reality.  And I'm pretty sure MMM exists in reality.  (Don't read that the wrong way...)

I say he is in The Twilight Zone.

[webny99]

OK, right off the bat, you can make the poll yourself if you really want to (however, I don't recommend making a poll about yourself).

Max Rockatansky is the OP.

Whatever is going on in this thread is irrelevant. MMM asked if someone could add a poll to the forum, which anyone can do anytime they want.

[Roadgeekteen]

OK, right off the bat, you can make the poll yourself if you really want to (however, I don't recommend making a poll about yourself).

Max Rockatansky is the OP.

Whatever is going on in this thread is irrelevant. MMM asked if someone could add a poll to the forum, which anyone can do anytime they want.

I could make a poll...

[kphoger]

Just make sure none of them can be construed as "harassing or insulting remarks towards another member".