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(Message started by: Jigsaw on Jun 5^th, 2008, 12:25am)

Title: height of a nickel
Post by Jigsaw on Jun 5^th, 2008, 12:25am

I found this question in a game development forum(all replies seemed stupid though)
You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by towr on Jun 5^th, 2008, 1:12am

[hide]Well, you're small enough for the blades to miss you by a mile, if you stand under them. But the vortex of air they whip up may drag you into the blades.
You might be able to jump out, considering you'll be disproportionally strong (volume, and thus weight, goes down with the third power of scale; strength with square, I think.)[/hide]

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by JiNbOtAk on Jun 10^th, 2008, 6:17pm

on 06/05/08 at 00:25:24, Jigsaw wrote:

What do you do?

Pray. Pray real hard.

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by chronodekar on Jun 24^th, 2009, 3:07am

Our first priority will be to stay alive, right?

towr mentions that the air movement caused by the blades can/might kill you if you just duck under them.

[hide]So why not stay at the center of the blender? The air there should be stationary enough for it to be safe. (Think something similar to staying in the center of a tornado or hurricane)[/hide]

-chronodekar

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by nega1sqrt on Oct 19^th, 2009, 4:47pm

You could climb the etch marks of the blender. I've heard that answer from somewhere. You could also run around and around the blender, kept up by centrifugal force. ;)

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by Grimbal on Oct 20^th, 2009, 2:20pm

I would stop smoking that stuff.

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by Azgard on Oct 20^th, 2009, 2:37pm

on 10/19/09 at 16:47:53, nega1sqrt wrote:

You could climb the etch marks of the blender. I've heard that answer from somewhere.

Aren't the etch marks on the outside of the blender?

You could always start knocking on the glass in hopes of getting the attention of the person operating the blender.

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by towr on Oct 20^th, 2009, 3:01pm

on 10/20/09 at 14:37:24, Azgard wrote:

You could always start knocking on the glass in hopes of getting the attention of the person operating the blender.

I don't think you can make a lot of noise at that size; it's smaller than a fruit fly.

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by Azgard on Oct 20^th, 2009, 3:24pm

on 10/20/09 at 15:01:31, towr wrote:

I don't think you can make a lot of noise at that size; it's smaller than a fruit fly.

There must be some monster sized fruitflies where you are! :o

Where I come from, fruit flies are smaller than a pin head, way smaller than a nickle!

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by towr on Oct 21^st, 2009, 1:17am

on 10/20/09 at 15:24:37, Azgard wrote:

There must be some monster sized fruitflies where you are! :o

Or maybe you have monster sized nickels.
1.95 mm isn't an exorbitant size for a fruit fly. (But that's the US nickel, I had our own equivalent in mind, which is smaller)

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Where I come from, fruit flies are smaller than a pin head, way smaller than a nickle!

How large are your pin heads?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Drosophila.jpg/250px-Drosophila.jpg
That fruit fly looks like about 2-3 mm to me, if the given scale is correct.

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by Grimbal on Oct 23^rd, 2009, 2:56pm

It is not clear whether your height equals the nickel diameter or the nickel thickness.

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by physx on Oct 23^rd, 2009, 10:56pm

Stand between the blade and the edge of the glass (there should be some room), hold your shirt above your head, and just as the blades start to spin, jump. The air should move fast enough up the sides to catch on the shirt and push you up. If this attempt fails... well...

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by diemert on Nov 21^st, 2009, 8:24am

u could either bend the blades back and forth till they breakk
or scream while inside it woud make more noise

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by bmudiam on Dec 31^st, 2009, 8:27am

You could cut the cables at the center of the motor to stop the rotation of the blades 8) 8) 8)

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by tehran_games on Aug 10^th, 2012, 12:20am

Hard to answer ! just stupid answers are possible ! then it's better for me to leave it unanswered ! isn't it?

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by cartoonle on Dec 13^th, 2012, 4:17am

Is this a philosophical question or it actually exists correct answer?

Title: Re: height of a nickel
Post by Grimbal on Dec 14^th, 2012, 1:52am

For the guy in the blender, it is not a philosophical question, it is a matter of life or death!