January Stundie Finals

[Travis]

Actually that is kind of scary Jay.

But it does continue to make me giggle that he thinks air resistance is "magic".

 

[Damien Evans]

3 is one of the stupidest things I ever read. 15 made me angry. The suburbs just to the north and northeast of me came under ember attack on Black Saturday and if the wind hadn't changed direction and driven the fire back north we would probably have been hearing of (and, in mine and Lionkings cases, seeing and losing our homes) the fire burn through Hurstbridge, Diamond Creek and Warrandyte instead of Kinglake, killing thousands rather than hundreds in all likelihood. It could have been even worse if the wind changed to a North-Easterly, then it would have spread into a wide band as it did in reality, only instead of going North-East towards Kinglake and the relatively sparsely populated land beyond it would have headed in the opposite direction right into the heart of Melbourne's suburbs, right down at least to the Yarra River in Eltham and I shudder to think where that could have ended.

 

[SomedayGirl]

9, 14 (which I'm considering as my new tagline), 18 -- but truly 3 is in a class by itself.

 

[BazBear]

It's even funnier when you realize the author of #3 claims to be a professional engineer.

Yes, I believe he attended the same technical university as the late Ralph Rene; the scary thing is I suspect Rene might have been a better engineer than contestant number three

 

[GlennB]

I wonder what the person who posted #3 would say if he understood the principle of conservation of angular momentum?

Go into a headspin.