12/16/2002: Paki passenger train
 

http://cellar.org/2002/pakitrain.jpg

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.

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?

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 :D

Oh, they'll never return.
No, they'll never return.
And their fate is still unlearned.
Pooooooor old Paki's....

How the hell does the engineer know when to stop?

I think this is a great example of the failings of the phrase "safety in numbers"

Probably only when people start banging on the windshield and shouting at him.

When my login stops working. Or when I stop receiving checks.

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.

Yes, I am a sick puppy, but well aware of it. (See "Dude on Fire" if you have any questions in this regard)

(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?

There is not enough information to solve either problem.

255, the other five had to go piss off the side of the train from drinking too much Coke.


2:45:33 CST

Cam. Did you look in the back of the textbook for the answers?


:violin: I always wanted to use that , so here you go.

Cam got it right (but he had to look it up in the answer key).

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. :D