[4599] in Central_America
New quotes for Sun Oct 11
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sun Oct 11 19:21:03 1992
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 19:20:46 -0400
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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jefft (Jeff Tang):
"I understand now. Ronald Reagan would make a *great* president!"
--- Tom, "It Conquered the World"
(for a person just zombified by the alien's "stinger")
"I understand now. Gallagher *is* funny!"
--- Joel, "It Conquered the World" (same situation)
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nosaj (Jason M Sachs):
MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS OF TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIAN FIELDS, IN DIFFERENTIAL FORM
1. div T = rho sub P / tau
(Each line of traffic flow terminates on a pedestrian.)
2. div P = 0
(Pedestrians don't have the same luxury.)
3. curl P = J sub T + tau * dT/dt
(Pedestrians tend to cluster around two things: cars that crash,
and new cars.)
4. curl T = - pi * dP/dt
(The amount of swerving cars in traffic must do is proportional
to the number of people that spontaneously jump out into the road.)
(Normally this is in the *opposite* direction as the pedestrian,
but if pi is negative, it indicates that cars are swerving *towards*
the pedestrian.)
pi and tau are proportionality constants that depend on local road conditions,
the time of day, the police officer's mood, and so forth, with the one
constraint that
1 / sqrt (pi * tau) = the speed limit.
--- End of Central America ---
