Physics lessons from a poly-sci major

By lex, on April 13th, 2007

NASCAR fan Max asked for a physics lesson on curvilinear path dive bombing for those who don’t wear horn-rimmed glasses. Which is a fair request, except for the fact that he, you know: Asked of it from me.

This is like getting a second opinion on your upcoming brain surgery from the local barber: He probably has an opinion to go along with his glancing familiarity with the issue at hand, but you don’t necessarily want to bet your life on it, one way or the other.

Anyway, here goes.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex