The aerodynamics of teabags
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With a bit of practise, I have discovered that I can throw a teabag into a teacup from a distance of 10 feet or so. Not every time, of course, but maybe 1 in 20. Here's the secret: 1. Shake the tea into one corner of the bag. 2. Fold the bag up as small as possible. Take care not to split it. 3. Remove anything near the cup that might cause trouble if hit by the teabag, such as plates of butter, bowls of sugar, open tins of catfood etc. 4. On windy days, close any open windows, to prevent cross winds. 5. Take aim. The cup looks awfully small, doesn't it? Use the power of positive thinking: visualise the teabag thunking into the cup with satifying precision. 6. Throw. 7. Retrieve. 8. Throw again. etc. Round teabags fly better than square ones, so bear this in mind next time you go shopping. Lest you think this is the occupation of a man with too much time on his hands, think of it as a healthy alternative to having a cigarette while you wait for the kettle to boil. Caution: if teabag becomes wet, get another one (or give up).
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
You've got some big builds to do and a lot of spare time on your hands, don't you?
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For those that are even more bored, This has real Article possibilities. A Simulation program of teabag throwing. adjustable parameters: - distance - shape - target size - (for the poor)is the bag being used before
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BadKarma wrote:
For those that are even more bored, This has real Article possibilities.
For those who are even MORE bored, this has excellent research project potential.... What is the drag coefficient at each orientation and tumble factor for each brand of teabags? I wonder if there is a government research grant for this?
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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With a bit of practise, I have discovered that I can throw a teabag into a teacup from a distance of 10 feet or so. Not every time, of course, but maybe 1 in 20. Here's the secret: 1. Shake the tea into one corner of the bag. 2. Fold the bag up as small as possible. Take care not to split it. 3. Remove anything near the cup that might cause trouble if hit by the teabag, such as plates of butter, bowls of sugar, open tins of catfood etc. 4. On windy days, close any open windows, to prevent cross winds. 5. Take aim. The cup looks awfully small, doesn't it? Use the power of positive thinking: visualise the teabag thunking into the cup with satifying precision. 6. Throw. 7. Retrieve. 8. Throw again. etc. Round teabags fly better than square ones, so bear this in mind next time you go shopping. Lest you think this is the occupation of a man with too much time on his hands, think of it as a healthy alternative to having a cigarette while you wait for the kettle to boil. Caution: if teabag becomes wet, get another one (or give up).
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
What kind of a geek are you? Most of the guys areound here would have already written a quick program calculating trajectory, wind speed, etc. :)
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Coming soon: Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua! www.PracticalUSA.com
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With a bit of practise, I have discovered that I can throw a teabag into a teacup from a distance of 10 feet or so. Not every time, of course, but maybe 1 in 20. Here's the secret: 1. Shake the tea into one corner of the bag. 2. Fold the bag up as small as possible. Take care not to split it. 3. Remove anything near the cup that might cause trouble if hit by the teabag, such as plates of butter, bowls of sugar, open tins of catfood etc. 4. On windy days, close any open windows, to prevent cross winds. 5. Take aim. The cup looks awfully small, doesn't it? Use the power of positive thinking: visualise the teabag thunking into the cup with satifying precision. 6. Throw. 7. Retrieve. 8. Throw again. etc. Round teabags fly better than square ones, so bear this in mind next time you go shopping. Lest you think this is the occupation of a man with too much time on his hands, think of it as a healthy alternative to having a cigarette while you wait for the kettle to boil. Caution: if teabag becomes wet, get another one (or give up).
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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Microsoft will license you a teabag provided that you agree to adhere to the licensing conditions and activate it within 30 days.
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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What kind of a geek are you? Most of the guys areound here would have already written a quick program calculating trajectory, wind speed, etc. :)
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Coming soon: Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua! www.PracticalUSA.com
You forgot the spin of the earth factor, local gravitational density, evaporation in flight (think comets), barometer setting, etc. Someone 16 year old on full boat math scholarship at MIT would be an appropriate research fellow; you just have to help him get laid LOL!
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Do you have a download link? Also, I've run out of milk too. It's going to be one of those days.
Don't worry, milk is incompatible with Microsoft teabags unless you install service pack 5. This, of course, is incompatible with spoons, sugar and water but Microsoft (R) Teabags (TM) 2009 will address this provided you have a Vista certified kettle and 4GB RAM. I'm only half joking here.
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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With a bit of practise, I have discovered that I can throw a teabag into a teacup from a distance of 10 feet or so. Not every time, of course, but maybe 1 in 20. Here's the secret: 1. Shake the tea into one corner of the bag. 2. Fold the bag up as small as possible. Take care not to split it. 3. Remove anything near the cup that might cause trouble if hit by the teabag, such as plates of butter, bowls of sugar, open tins of catfood etc. 4. On windy days, close any open windows, to prevent cross winds. 5. Take aim. The cup looks awfully small, doesn't it? Use the power of positive thinking: visualise the teabag thunking into the cup with satifying precision. 6. Throw. 7. Retrieve. 8. Throw again. etc. Round teabags fly better than square ones, so bear this in mind next time you go shopping. Lest you think this is the occupation of a man with too much time on his hands, think of it as a healthy alternative to having a cigarette while you wait for the kettle to boil. Caution: if teabag becomes wet, get another one (or give up).
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
Direct aiming is the least accurate method. By utilizing objects around the cup you can use proper design to inflict error correcting to your trajectory. (Throw it at a wall, the tea bag is not very elastic and the excess energy will be transformed as heat allowing a very accurate toss from a much further distance)
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Don't worry, milk is incompatible with Microsoft teabags unless you install service pack 5. This, of course, is incompatible with spoons, sugar and water but Microsoft (R) Teabags (TM) 2009 will address this provided you have a Vista certified kettle and 4GB RAM. I'm only half joking here.
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
It's a shame it's not still the dot com bubble. You know I could have got VC money for the online distribution of tea bags. I'd go check if teabag.com is taken, but I'm a little afraid of what I might find :omg:
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It's a shame it's not still the dot com bubble. You know I could have got VC money for the online distribution of tea bags. I'd go check if teabag.com is taken, but I'm a little afraid of what I might find :omg:
Wjousts wrote:
I'd go check if teabag.com is taken, but I'm a little afraid of what I might find
Heh. I went to download Python[^] the other night, but typed .com instead of .org. Oops. :-O
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You forgot the spin of the earth factor, local gravitational density, evaporation in flight (think comets), barometer setting, etc. Someone 16 year old on full boat math scholarship at MIT would be an appropriate research fellow; you just have to help him get laid LOL!
fredsparkle wrote:
You forgot the spin of the earth factor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect[^] check.
fredsparkle wrote:
local gravitational density
http://cddis.nasa.gov/926/egm96/egm96.html[^] check. don't forget to distribute the gravitational formula based on distance between bodies as well! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_universal_gravitation[^]
fredsparkle wrote:
evaporation in flight (think comets),
not a problem in the sense of comets, however consider the atmospheric pressure and humidity compared to the dryness of the leaves, will the leaves pick up any moisture in flight from the atmospheric humidity and pressure in your area, or will it give off humidity leaving it more dry during its flight.
fredsparkle wrote:
barometer setting
check, and tempurature, and particle simulation of multiple constrained bodies within a mesh. :) hey, I thought of everything with this software!
fredsparkle wrote:
get laid
but my software does NOT do that!!!
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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With a bit of practise, I have discovered that I can throw a teabag into a teacup from a distance of 10 feet or so. Not every time, of course, but maybe 1 in 20. Here's the secret: 1. Shake the tea into one corner of the bag. 2. Fold the bag up as small as possible. Take care not to split it. 3. Remove anything near the cup that might cause trouble if hit by the teabag, such as plates of butter, bowls of sugar, open tins of catfood etc. 4. On windy days, close any open windows, to prevent cross winds. 5. Take aim. The cup looks awfully small, doesn't it? Use the power of positive thinking: visualise the teabag thunking into the cup with satifying precision. 6. Throw. 7. Retrieve. 8. Throw again. etc. Round teabags fly better than square ones, so bear this in mind next time you go shopping. Lest you think this is the occupation of a man with too much time on his hands, think of it as a healthy alternative to having a cigarette while you wait for the kettle to boil. Caution: if teabag becomes wet, get another one (or give up).
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
A guy at a party once was hospitalized because of a flying Triscuit (little cracker). Someone whipped it out the balcony door, it hit him on the forehead and he reacted so strongly he flipped backwards over the rail and fell to the ground. However it was only the second floor.
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying." - David Ogilvy
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A guy at a party once was hospitalized because of a flying Triscuit (little cracker). Someone whipped it out the balcony door, it hit him on the forehead and he reacted so strongly he flipped backwards over the rail and fell to the ground. However it was only the second floor.
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying." - David Ogilvy
Wow! Almost a candidate for the Darwin awards[^] there.
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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Microsoft will license you a teabag provided that you agree to adhere to the licensing conditions and activate it within 30 days.
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
I always suspected Microsoft of teabagging people...
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fredsparkle wrote:
You forgot the spin of the earth factor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect[^] check.
fredsparkle wrote:
local gravitational density
http://cddis.nasa.gov/926/egm96/egm96.html[^] check. don't forget to distribute the gravitational formula based on distance between bodies as well! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_universal_gravitation[^]
fredsparkle wrote:
evaporation in flight (think comets),
not a problem in the sense of comets, however consider the atmospheric pressure and humidity compared to the dryness of the leaves, will the leaves pick up any moisture in flight from the atmospheric humidity and pressure in your area, or will it give off humidity leaving it more dry during its flight.
fredsparkle wrote:
barometer setting
check, and tempurature, and particle simulation of multiple constrained bodies within a mesh. :) hey, I thought of everything with this software!
fredsparkle wrote:
get laid
but my software does NOT do that!!!
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
Ok time to write the artical and post it! :)
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Ok time to write the artical and post it! :)
fredsparkle wrote:
Ok time to write the artical and post it!
sorry, still working on the last requested feature.... ;P ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."