[attrition] Question of the month (year/decade/century)

[Lyger]

We had a few excellent responses and conversations about the question 
asked a couple of weeks ago (and at the bottom of this email), but 
two stood out.  I'm going to call it a tie between them, which are 
oddly related mathematically.  Enjoy: 

From: akoimeexx at gmail.com
To: staff at attrition.org
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:04:41 -0400
Subject: Re: [attrition] Question of the month (year/decade/century)

Assuming the centipede only has one remaining good leg, we'll generously
say the centipede can move at one-one hundredth its average speed (approx.
15 in/s):

0.15in/s / 1in, or 9in/min.

Average dill pickle length is 3-5 inches, say 100 seeds per spear with
20second time per seed removed...

5in / (0.15in/s) + (20s * 100)

Wolfram Alpha gives us 33 minutes 53.3 seconds.

The man who was given the task of removing 99 perfectly good legs and
installing wooden ones on the centipede gives us the finger.


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From: Cailean Keniston
To: staff at attrition.org
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:22:36 -0700
Subject: Re: [attrition] Question of the month (year/decade/century)

I remember this from high school trig, the answer is: "Fuck Pythagoras
and variables and shit, let's talk about bitches"
Thank You,
Cailean Keniston


On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, Lyger wrote:

:  If a chicken-and-a-half can lay an egg-and-a-half in a day-and-a-half, how
:  long would it take a centipede with 99 wooden legs to kick all of the seeds
:  out of a dill pickle?
:  
:  Funniest, most original, or most logical replies get re-sent to this list.
:  Any answers that try to correlate the question to infosec automatically get
:  discarded, or the author mocked, at my own discretion.
:  
:  For your amusement,
:  Lyger (the other white meat)