Posted on 09/07/2022 5:07:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
EV runs out of juice, pushed by coal miners
DC tourist ran out of battery in the middle of a remote West Virginia road on Friday, near a coal mine on Mettiki Coal access road U.S. 48, a few miles outside of Davis, according to WTRF.
From FaceBook:
Randy Smith on Friday Some days are just better than others. Today at our mine off Corridor H an electric car from DC ran out of battery at the road entrance to the mine. Someone called one of our foreman and told him a car was broke down in the middle of our haul road. He went to investigate and found out they had indeed ran out of juice coming from DC to Davis for a get away weekend. He then went back to the mine and got guys to push the car to the guard shack so they could plug in to charge. ... See more
A Law can only be inferred if every instance is demonstrably shown to be true. Even when that condition is met, there will be people complaining, “but that’s only a theory!”
Most people turn their brains off when someone mentions math.
It’s sad. The Pythagorean Theorem is like the Rosetta Stone, able to be expressed in more than one form. It’s beautiful.
I don’t shut my brain off when math is mentioned. I was ill with rheumatic fever during the critical time at school when multiplication and division were being taught. I was never able to catch up until calculators became small enough to carry.
Even my cooking classes didn’t help — I failed algebra. I really struggled, but it was a case of the teacher thinking I was just too stupid to care.
I needed help and no one would offer. Math is a foreign language to me for the most part.
We went through one. Then we learned.
But you CAN draw a universal conclusion from a single universe.
Yeah, but I understand Pythagoras was a musician, so he would have seen the art in math.
Just so. But once you understand the symbiology it’s much easier to keep up with.
Most of us do OK with word problems.
“If son Larry and daughter Jenny are given a boy and a girl rabbit, and they have an average of 4 kittens per litter, how long before mom makes rabbit stew?”
Nice number.
Numbers can be fun to play with, and they don’t cost anything to use.
I like to remind myself that 12 x 12 = 144 and that 21 x 21 = 441. While that’s interesting visually, it has implications about math beyond base ten.
Math is open-ended. There are more numbers than there are atoms in the Universe.
I’m sure vacuum belts don’t like hair in other solar systems, either.
And yet, with all the atoms and all the numbers in the universe, there’s only one NicknamedBob.
I think the Vacuum Belt is just beyond the Asteroid Belt, just this side of Jupiter.
Word problems never made sense to me. They still don’t. The only good thing is that yours is funny! ;o]
Isn’t Wordle a word problem?
To me, it’s a spelling problem.
It is when the Website is down.
Word problems are just an introduction to Algebra.
Alice, and Beatrice, and Charlotte are simply A, B, and C. You have to learn to switch the names out for irrelevant markers.
Axel, X, delivers newspapers along Main street, while Yvonne rides with her dad to deliver on West street.
X, Y Cartesian coordinates, see? Ignore the names; they’re just markers.
Don’t get stuck in the hairballs on the way there!
Yes, and I failed algebra. So much for me.
But thanks, Bob. That did clear things up a bit. If I ignore the names, I’m lost in the equation again. *sigh*
Exactly!
Lost in the equations ...
Yvonne is Y plus one.
How many people in the car?
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