{"id":394,"date":"2014-12-07T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/words.deviating.net\/?p=394"},"modified":"2014-12-07T18:31:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T18:31:04","slug":"shmoocon-word-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"ShmooCon word problem (UPDATE: solved by @CaptainDooley)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, i cannot believe the volume of tweets and discussion that this all generated. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Loads of people replied to me<\/a> on Twitter (that link is just one of about a dozen conversation threads that rattled away) and the answers I saw were wide-ranging. \u00a0Of course, there were more follow-up questions than there were actual answers, i think. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

People disagreed\u00a0if the distances\u00a0should be calculated based on surface travel or as the crow flies<\/a>. \u00a0The great-circle theorem and Haversine formula<\/a> were linked. \u00a0We all mentioned that moose do not fly. \u00a0Someone asked about the moose stealing a plane. \u00a0The question was clearly phrased with the words “running” and “walking” and no moose-bearing plane could fly at those low velocities. \u00a0Someone asserted that moose COULD fly and someone started working on art to show this. \u00a0Someone else asked about the forward surface area & air resistance of an adult moose<\/a>. \u00a0My house mate responded that this should already be presumed to be factored in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the ground routes, people disagreed over whether the moose would use Google’s walking<\/a> or driving<\/a> directions for route planning. \u00a0 I stated that while I hadn’t considered that, the photo in my blog post clearly shows the moose on a road, near a car. \u00a0Someone asked if that was just a moose CROSSING a road. \u00a0Bruce Potter brought up the issue of moose and swimming<\/a>. \u00a0Noise and Aloria both asserted that moose do not proceed across the landscape with any urgency and often stop to rest and eat<\/a>. \u00a0People discussed whether a moose could hijack a car<\/a>. \u00a0Someone else asked about a moose with a jetpack<\/a>… clearly irrelevant, but now that’s all I can picture in my mind and I wish to see Congress appropriate funding for the development of this technology.<\/p>\n

And there were no shortage of people offering theories involving the Philadelphia (or, alternately, the Cleveland) moose being drunk<\/a>, a brawler<\/a>, or eager to leave his or her own city faster. \u00a0Space Rogue pointed out<\/a> that neither city is part of the natural range of any moose so that the moose “From Maine” is the winner because that moose actually exists. \u00a0It was also pointed out that I did not specify which<\/em> Cleveland<\/a> in my original question.<\/p>\n

I was inclined to give a prize to Carl Numbus…<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnimbus\/status\/541644648734023680<\/p>\n

But ultimately, here is how I was calculating things…<\/p>\n

Cleveland, OH moose has to travel 369 miles and at 25 M.P.H. this takes\u00a014.76 hours<\/strong>
\nPhiladelphia, PA moose has to travel 138 miles and at 10 M.P.H. this takes\u00a013.8 hours<\/strong><\/p>\n

ANSWER: the Philly moose should get there ~58 minutes sooner<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaptainDooley\/status\/541645627755462656<\/p>\n

It turns out that the first person to actually tweet to me was the one who came the closest to the\u00a0answer I was expecting. \u00a0He followed-up with the answer in minutes shortly thereafter and was therefore declared the winner in my book. \u00a0He can email me this week and purchase a spare ticket I had grabbed for face value.<\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone and I’ll see you in Washington, D.C. this January!<\/p>\n

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– — —– ———-[ ORIGINAL POST ]———- —– — –<\/p>\n

Two moose are going to ShmooCon.<\/p>\n

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Moose 1 runs from Cleveland to Washington D.C. at 25 Miles per Hour<\/p>\n

Moose A walks from Philadelphia to Washington D.C. at 10 Miles per Hour<\/p>\n

If they start at the same time, which moose gets there first and by how many minutes do they beat the other moose to the finish? \u00a0(Plus or minus 5\u00a0minutes)<\/p>\n

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First person to tweet the answer to me gets to buy a spare ShmooCon ticket at face value from me.<\/p>\n

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So, i cannot believe the volume of tweets and discussion that this all generated. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Loads of people replied to me on Twitter (that link is just one of about a dozen conversation threads that rattled away) and the answers I saw were wide-ranging. \u00a0Of course, there were more follow-up questions than there were actual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}