Your car's spoiler is not a passenger seat

[coldcupofjoe]

When I was living out in hickville east Texas me and some friends were going out to a party in the middle of nowhere. We were riding in the back of a pickup on a dirt road, he driver was going somewhere around 35-45 m.p.h. when he hit a huge pothole. The back end of the truck popped up sending the 6 of us in the back of the truck in all different directions. Amazingly, the only person injured was the passenger inside. She wound up with a concussion and some whiplash. All of us in the back just had scratches and bruises.

[cinema guy]

Geometric progression is like exponential, but worse.

A geometric progression becomes exponential only if the geometric ratio is positive and greater than one.

Mathematically a geometric progression is:
a, ar, ar^2, ar^3, ar^4 ..... where r is the ratio.

While an exponential one can be 2^n

[SteverinoNY]

A geometric progression becomes exponential only if the geometric ratio is positive and greater than one.

Mathematically a geometric progression is:
a, ar, ar^2, ar^3, ar^4 ..... where r is the ratio.

While an exponential one can be 2^n

MATH NERD ALERT!...please speak english, not engineer next time haha.

I'll stick to my psychology because its a lot easier to understand.

Back on topic, the idiot who was latched on to the spoiler definitely deserves a Darwin award when they smash their head on the pavement and split open their skull because they thought something was fun.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Me and my brother used to ride around on the trunk of our mom's car, just up and down our road (about half a mile), and we thought it was the best thing ever. I would still do it if we had a car that it was feasible for.

But I fully accept that it's me and my family doing our typical daredevilish stuff, AND I know that my body is a bit physically tougher than most. I've fallen on my face out of a ten-foot loft AND got knocked out of a 20-foot tree by an evil hawk in the same day, and didn't do much more than laugh about it. (Big bones are AWESOME.)

At least we had the good sense to do it somewhere the cops wouldn't see us...

[cinema guy]

MATH NERD ALERT!...please speak english, not engineer next time haha.

I have a degree in Pure Mathematics. I'm not an engineer - nothing I learned involved the real world, or even numbers. I am (or was) an ultimate Maths nerd.

[Der Cute]

I have a degree in Pure Mathematics. I'm not an engineer - nothing I learned involved the real world, or even numbers. I am (or was) an ultimate Maths nerd.

Are you single!!!????

I love math - but can't seem to get thru Calc2. I love logic and algebra and formulas...they make SENSE. Wish all the humans did.

Cutenoob

[Primer]

I have a degree in Pure Mathematics. I'm not an engineer - nothing I learned involved the real world, or even numbers. I am (or was) an ultimate Maths nerd.

I'm so sorry!

My BS is in "pure" Math also, so I know your pain.

[cinema guy]

Are you single!!!????

Yep.

[Geek King]

MATH NERD ALERT!...please speak english, not engineer next time haha.

I'll stick to my psychology because its a lot easier to understand.

How about this: Progresses like a self-feeding addictive mainia.

Basically, bigger/worse/more dangerous as time/speed/number/whatever progresses

Geek "Beware of hairy palms" King

[Tria]

A geometric progression becomes exponential only if the geometric ratio is positive and greater than one.

Mathematically a geometric progression is:
a, ar, ar^2, ar^3, ar^4 ..... where r is the ratio.

While an exponential one can be 2^n

Hey! Warn someone before you drop the 4 letter m- word! (math)

[repsac]

Growing up in Mississippi, particularly in the Delta like I did, you will find that bored rednecks with a moment of time will find ingenious ways to get themselves hurt.

Some I can remember, though not personally involved in, were:

1.) Girl nearly kills self when riding a four wheeler on the HS football field. Now this one could have been far worse than it was. Supposedly, the girl thought it was fun to ride under this wire strung just about four feet off the ground. She'd duck and then make this show of how close it came. During one pass, she sneezed and did not duck. Ended up in traction for six months.

2.) While showing off, one young man gave a new definition to "Asphalt." He decided that he ought moon someone as they passed, and pressing his cheeks to the window weren't good enough. No, he had to let them hang out the window. This would not have been a problem had his buddy not needed to swerve, there by extracting his barecheeked buddy out the window. Butt struck pavement and the rest is history... It was his ass, and his fault.

3.) You'd think the welds would have held. One fun thing to do in the south is "Mud boggin." It involves beat up pick up trucks and plenty of mud. Rather fun on a hot summer day I must admit. (I have the jeep to prove it) At one meet, I remember a good friend of mine climbing into the back of a pick up to do it "Technical*" style. They ran through the mud several times with the truck until the last corner when a loud DING was heard and the roll bar (with friend attached) came out the back of the truck in a crumpled heap. No injuries were sustained except for a bent pride.

*Technical style refers to the "technical" type of patrol vehicles found in 3rd world countries where a gunner stands in the back of a pickup with a 50cal machine gun.

The last thing is something an old HS friend of mine once noted.

One day while at lunch, this guy I'd just about grown up with looks over at me.

"Repsac, you ever notice that if you're holding onto a rope and someone snatches it, most people hold on tightly? I mean, like if it's attached to the bumper of a car and the car takes off, it's a few seconds before you think to let go?"

You know...he has a point.

[Kogarashi]

"Repsac, you ever notice that if you're holding onto a rope and someone snatches it, most people hold on tightly? I mean, like if it's attached to the bumper of a car and the car takes off, it's a few seconds before you think to let go?"

You know...he has a point.

I can attest to that.

On a camping trip with my family, we went tubing* on the lake with our friends' party boat (so we weren't going as fast as a small motorboat, thank heavens). On the recommendation of my dad, I decided to ride the tube headfirst (belly down) instead of sitting like I usually did. All was well until I didn't lean right going over the boat's wake on one turn, and the tube flipped. Despite the sudden dunking, my body's first instinct was to clench my hands tight around the tube's handles so as not to get thrown. It took about two or three seconds' conscious thinking before I let go and surfaced, much to my mom's relief. So I can understand the initial instinct to grab onto what's being yanked away.

*Tubing, for those who might not know, is kind of like water skiing only slower, and on a special inner tube with handles that's tied to the boat via a rope. Quite fun, and it doesn't take much skill. My 10-year-old baby sister could even join in.

[Dragon_Dreamer]

Around here, we just call that tube skiing. Tubing is floating lazily downriver for a few hours in one of those things, no boat attached.

[Kogarashi]

Around here, we just call that tube skiing. Tubing is floating lazily downriver for a few hours in one of those things, no boat attached.

Yay for regional variations.

[valhar2000]

No. I was referring to geometric progression. You got the jist though.

Geometric sequences increase exponentially, therefore "exponentially" and "geometrically" signify the same behaviour.