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>NASA

>> No.5573363

>losing to MLP

>> No.5573360
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NASA GOT BLOWN THE FUCK OUT

>> No.5573365

>Obama is watching
>NASA is closed.

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>> No.5573368

4CHAN CUP 2013

/mlp/ > /sci/

>> No.5573371
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TOP LEL

>> No.5573376

what happened?

>> No.5573379

>>5573376
A NASA scientist lost to some MLP watching, video game playing gamer gurl on a physics challenge in a game show /tv/ watches.

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>>5573379
>That explanation
Great work, sir.

>> No.5573398

Questions were probably all random, esoteric factoids that only people who actively try to get on game-shows care about knowing.

Take two people who weren't even prepared and it will be completely random who wins.

>> No.5573402

what happened, whats all this about

>> No.5573405

>>5573398
No, they had a whole evening and night to solve 3 tasks using maths and physics.

>> No.5573411

>>5573379
Wait, as in actual scientific facts or just the most inane trivial things?

>> No.5573416

>>5573405
Oh, they could use google? Was the scientist an old dude?

>> No.5573418

>>5573411
bowling ball dropped onto panes of glass

they had to guess how many would break given the thickness of glass and height and weight of the ball

>> No.5573420

>>5573418
How would you calculate that? Would you need to know how much force is needed to break a single pane of glass and how much force the ball will exert?

>> No.5573422

>>5573416
They had to solve how many glass plates would break on 3 different occasions

First, plates 2 inches apart, bowling ball (weight was stated) dropped from 7 feet
2nd different measures
3rd " "

The Nasa scientist tried to actually solve it. The gamer gurl tried to look it up on google, ended up looking at mlp and conspiracy theories all night and guessed all 3 right.

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>>5573416
this is what she looks like

>>5573422
she missed the last one, but still had more points

>> No.5573427

>>5573422
Oh so she just got extremely lucky?

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>>5573420
they received a lot of information

The NASA engineer lost to this

>> No.5573435

>>5573427
She didn't guess. My Little Pony and 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists are just better at physics and math then NASA.

>> No.5573441

>>5573432
>>5573426
Wait a sec, this is King of the Fags we're talking about? Oh shit well who cares who loses to who, I thought this was some gamer gurl actually winning against an experienced NASA scientist.

>> No.5573454

>>5573441
Moogega IS a NASA scientist, she's has a PhD and everything.
Fun Fact: She started college at 16 and has published papers

>> No.5573462

>>5573454
What's gamer gurls background?

>> No.5573470

>>5573462
She's a slacker that play's wow and makes youtubes money

>> No.5573479

>>5573470
Well shit, lots of /sci/ could have beat her right? right?

>> No.5573475

>NASA

>> No.5573477

AGAIN

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NASA GOT BLOWN THE FUCK OUT AGAIN

>> No.5573504

>>5573379
/tv/ will watch anything with underage women in it.
I went there once.
It creeped me the buck out.

>> No.5573505 [DELETED] 

>glass plates

This is an dubious material definition.

If all the info the NASA scientist had on the material is that it was "glass", she should have never tried to calculate it in the first place. There are equations for determining the force that a material can sustain before breaking but you must know intimate details about the structure of the material, what kind of glass it is and how it was manufactured or just look at it with a x-ray crystallograph, before those methods would have any chance is working.

My guess is she got no such information, which makes here attempt to answer the question with math a failure before she even started.

>> No.5573514

>>5573462
I think she has a degree in chemistry or something

>> No.5573520

>>5573470
dude she;s like so smart, she graduated top 10% in high school
and no college degree

>> No.5573516

>glass plates

This is a dubious material definition.

If all the info the NASA scientist had on the material is that it was "glass", she should have never tried to calculate it in the first place. There are equations for determining the force that a material can sustain before breaking but you must know intimate details about the structure of the material, what kind of glass it is and how it was manufactured or just look at it with a x-ray crystallograph, before those methods would have any chance of working.

"Glass" is a general class of materials that can range in strength from none of the plates breaking to all of the plates breaking.

My guess is she got no such information, which makes here attempt to answer the question with math a failure before she even started.

>> No.5573517

>>5573504
these are grown womenbabies and your forgetting feet.

>> No.5573519

>>5573505
They gave them everything they needed to know.

For the sake of time and entertainment, we werent shown the entire process.

>> No.5573536

If there was a physics challenge on a tv show where the contestants are a highly educated PhD and a gamergurl
Then the question was so mathematically obscure that either contestant had a somewhat equal chance of solving it.

Furthermore, for entertainment value the producers more than likely created a scenario where the more you know about physics the less likely you are to know the real answer as you are likely to be caught up in details that have little or no representation in the actual scenario and could even cause deviance from the answer.
In such a situation "common sense" would prevail.

How does /tv/ feel that their excitment/falsesenceof'accomplishment is but an illusion created by the producers to give them a feeling of value and worth in the viewer's ungifted lives?

>> No.5573539

>>5573536
Can't handle the banter?

>> No.5573545

>>5573539
nah
my father was a producer, its all a shadow show

plus after reality shows you would think people would realize this enough to not be entertained by tv

>> No.5573551

>>5573539
>>5573545
cont...

except for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VnC_h9dQUI
gets me every time

>> No.5573565

sounds like they both made educated guesses
and dumb shit gamer gurl's guess was closer to the real answer
>television