Swans on Tea

Sorry Star Wars fans, but Ghostbusters is the best film ever made
On the other hand, what human beings do need is “Things to say”. They need a huge supply of them. Amusing, essentially inconsequential things, which will make as many people in the room as possible feel relaxed and cordial. In this respect, Ghostbusters reveals [...]

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, 2009 results
An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. Although best known for “The Last Days of Pompeii” (1834), [...]

I noticed a very important lesson in Rhett’s post July 4th and an example of work-energy: checking the answer.
Let me make some checks here. Will the acceleration be positive? Yes. The first term will always be positive and greater than g because (d+h)/d is greater than 1. What if a jumper jumps from a [...]