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Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« on: March 17, 2016, 02:42:22 PM »
I was contemplating Mr. Taylor's tank problem and calculated what wedge angle on a conventional 1" x 2" stunt tank would give you 1 oz./ inch.  I figure it's 104 degrees, assuming infinitesimally thick tank walls.  Being ever-so-helpful, I recommended a Veco T-21H.

Now for the quiz: How does this lady write backwards on the glass so easily, and why would a man come up with the answer faster than a woman?

Clarification: The answer to why she writes backwards so easily, not the answer to the math.
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2016, 02:52:46 PM »
I cannot answer your question, but dang she's good!

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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2016, 03:02:16 PM »
I get 103 degrees (102.68, etc., actually).

(2 - x) + x/2 = 1.8

x/2 = 2 - 1.8 = 0.2

x = 0.4

angle = 2 * tan-1 (2 * 0.4) = 2(51.34o) = 103o (rounded).

I suspect they flipped the video around.  Otherwise she's both left-handed and able to write backwards.

A man would get an answer quicker because he'd flub his math somehow and round to the wrong number.
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2016, 03:14:16 PM »
If you used more significant figures on the conversion (it's 1.80469), you'd get 104 degrees.

You correctly answered the first question, but see the clarification regarding the second question.
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2016, 03:16:13 PM »
She's on the other side of the glass, writing so that she can read it. If she was nice. she'd write backwards so that we could read it   D>K
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2016, 03:17:55 PM »
Are you sure she's not writing it on a mirror?   D>K Steve
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2016, 03:19:05 PM »
Question 2     A man wouldn't really take the time to figure it out. He'd just pull a number out of the air and expect you to have faith in his accurac   H^^y
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2016, 03:20:55 PM »
Are you sure she's not writing it on a mirror?   D>K Steve
Only if it's a one way mirror and we're looking through it. I suspect she is actually using magic, to confuse us.   y1
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2016, 03:22:36 PM »
there's nothing wrong with small breasts........

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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2016, 03:23:38 PM »
Steve is still trying to use a mirror to pitch his left-handed props with a right-handed pitch gauge.
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2016, 03:25:11 PM »
Ken is getting warm (figuratively also).
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2016, 04:06:29 PM »
I know a little bit about magic and magic tricks.
The first thing we need to understand---NOTHING on a videotape should be believed.

Now then.
If she is right-handed and simply writes on a piece of while being filmed.....al we must do to make this tape is .......
reverse the image and she will appear as a left-hander who is writing backwards.

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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2016, 04:53:37 PM »
When I was in tech school I could write fluently in reverse. The teacher graded my papers in a mirror for a while because he thought it was neet but eventually started giving my F's.

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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2016, 05:10:37 PM »
I toured a retired Navy carrier in San Diego and they have glass boards to report the location of items and the crew had to write on the back side in reverse so that the commanders could read it from the front side of the glass.

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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2016, 05:19:16 PM »
I'm with Kenny on this issue...   y1 Steve
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2016, 05:46:34 PM »
When writing backwards, I find keeping everything under the table, out of sight, helps.

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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #16 on: March 17, 2016, 06:16:25 PM »
My wife writes backwards as easy as she writes forward. She use to send me notes that I had to hold up to a mirror to read. I still love her anyway.
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« Reply #17 on: March 17, 2016, 06:39:35 PM »
there's nothing wrong with small breasts........

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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #18 on: March 17, 2016, 06:45:20 PM »
If it is a mirror image why is her wedding band on the correct, left, hand?

Humm.

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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #19 on: March 17, 2016, 09:19:01 PM »
If it is a mirror image why is her wedding band on the correct, left, hand?

Good observation, Mark.  That was meant to be question #3.  I'll go ahead and answer it.

It's Darwinian selection.  She knew that guys seeing the video would be hitting on her and wanted to filter out those who couldn't figure out that the video was flipped. 
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #20 on: March 17, 2016, 09:51:26 PM »
why would a man come up with the answer faster than a woman?


Because to a man, everything looks like 9 inches?

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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #21 on: March 17, 2016, 10:00:16 PM »
I know a lot of women that have a ring on their right ring finger.
I'm just saying......
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #22 on: March 17, 2016, 10:02:44 PM »
And, if she was my math teacher, I would be intentionally missing some questions to get some extra tutoring.
I'm just saying.
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #23 on: March 17, 2016, 10:34:06 PM »
If it is a mirror image why is her wedding band on the correct, left, hand?

Humm.

It's easy enough to put a ring on a different finger.

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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #24 on: March 18, 2016, 05:51:44 AM »
The camera is looking at a mirror.
I may be wrong but I doubt it.
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #26 on: March 18, 2016, 02:05:51 PM »
She is writing on a piece of glass.   Look at the other videos of to the side of this one.  How many are old enough that took print shop in high school.   Had to learn to set type with the type upside down and the letters were back ward.  It takes practice.   Have any seen the message in which the only letters in the correct order are the first and last letter,  all others are scrambled.  Just like stunt or any model plane flying, it takes practice.
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #27 on: March 18, 2016, 06:59:15 PM »
The buttons on her blouse are on the wrong side, so it is mirror image.  She is right handed.

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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #28 on: March 18, 2016, 07:50:11 PM »
Just to be clear, the buttons on women's clothing are normally the opposite of men's I think.
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #29 on: March 18, 2016, 09:39:23 PM »
Yeah, it kind of explains how I helped a young college coed put on her blouse inside out in the dark so many years ago.  The buttons were on the right side and so it felt fine to me, not knowing back then that women's clothes have them on the left.  We didn't notice, but the first person we ran into sure did.
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #30 on: March 19, 2016, 12:36:28 AM »
The buttons on her blouse are on the wrong side, so it is mirror image.

Well done.  That's the answer to question 2.  It's the area of the picture men would see first.
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #31 on: March 19, 2016, 12:49:43 AM »
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Re: Fuel Tank Capacity Quiz
« Reply #32 on: March 19, 2016, 06:43:40 AM »
I still think Fred is right and she is prior service Navy.
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