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Old 12-16-2002, 12:31 PM   #1
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12/16/2002: Paki passenger train



I always love these shots of tremendous numbers of people getting from point A to point B. IIRC, the IotD has had this sort of shot of cars, trucks, bikes. This is the first IotD shot of a train overloaded with humanity. These folks are Pakistani, returning home from an Islamic conference in Bangladesh. They had a long way to go like that! I guess mass transit works if we are all willing to do our part.
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Old 12-16-2002, 12:41 PM   #2
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wow. that is the only statement that I can make about that image.
on another note: has anyone heard if train service is restored between India and Pakistan?
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Old 12-16-2002, 01:25 PM   #3
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That's a lot of people. Impressive. Some of them seems precariously gripped. A train, lot's of people, a bridge. That's my kind of combination
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Old 12-16-2002, 02:37 PM   #4
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Oh, they'll never return.
No, they'll never return.
And their fate is still unlearned.
Pooooooor old Paki's....
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Old 12-16-2002, 02:55 PM   #5
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How the hell does the engineer know when to stop?
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Old 12-16-2002, 03:43 PM   #6
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I think this is a great example of the failings of the phrase "safety in numbers"
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Old 12-16-2002, 06:33 PM   #7
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Probably only when people start banging on the windshield and shouting at him.

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Old 12-16-2002, 08:14 PM   #8
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How the hell does the engineer know when to stop?
When my login stops working. Or when I stop receiving checks.

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Old 12-16-2002, 08:26 PM   #9
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Unfortunately there's no such thing as a quick stop (unless it hits something) for a train ... imagine the fun of an experiment in inertia as the train comes to a sudden halt and all those guys clinging to the outside continue to hurtle forward at the former speed of the train.

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Old 12-16-2002, 08:40 PM   #10
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(Pakistani train word problems)

If a Paki train is travelling at 60 miles per hour due west at 2 pm, with 250 people clinging to the outter chassis, and there is a camel walking due east at 6 miles per hour Paralell to the train track at 2:15, how many of the chassis riders wear American T-shirts and drink Coke?

At what point does the track contract under the shadow of the camel to allow a McGoat meal to be digested by the lefthanded riders?
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Old 12-16-2002, 08:58 PM   #11
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There is not enough information to solve either problem.
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Old 12-16-2002, 09:01 PM   #12
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If a Paki train is travelling at 60 miles per hour due west at 2 pm, with 250 people clinging to the outter chassis, and there is a camel walking due east at 6 miles per hour Paralell to the train track at 2:15, how many of the chassis riders wear American T-shirts and drink Coke?
255, the other five had to go piss off the side of the train from drinking too much Coke.


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At what point does the track contract under the shadow of the camel to allow a McGoat meal to be digested by the lefthanded riders?
2:45:33 CST
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Old 12-16-2002, 09:02 PM   #13
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Cam. Did you look in the back of the textbook for the answers?


I always wanted to use that , so here you go.
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Old 12-16-2002, 09:05 PM   #14
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There is not enough information to solve either problem.
Cam got it right (but he had to look it up in the answer key).
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Old 12-16-2002, 09:06 PM   #15
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Me no, that would be cheating, and against my standards. It's a simple matter of solving for the mass of the camels hump after 2 hours of walking. You plug that into (250X-3.443)/33 = Y and walla you have the answer to the first question. And the second question is just common sense.
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