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From: mwg@petrus.UUCP (Mark Garrett)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Monkey Query and new problem
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 09:44:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 09:44:00 1985
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> Assuming the rocket engine fires so smoothly as to resemble a constant force
> the spaceship doesn't move in outer space, because there is no fixed object
> which it could be pushing against, right?  Now that we've proved that
> rockets don't work (:-), how about applying Newton's law to both.
> Since action = reaction, the rope exerts the same force on the monkey
> as the monkey exerts on the rope (which is transmitted to the weight,
> via the frictionless pulley and the massless rope).  Hence both monkey and
> weight rise at the same rate.  Let's see that Schroedinger equation (:-)!
> Dave Wallace	(...!ucbvax!wallace	wallace@ucbkim.berkeley.edu)

Oh yeah, right.  Well I TOLD you it's been a long time.  Well, now that I've
been sufficiently humiliated how about this one:

Somebody here said they saw a film about the Lindburg flight where old
CL was flying along, bored, and noticed a fly inside the plane.  He
started wondering if the mass of the fly contributed to the weight
of the plane.  If the fly is sitting on something then obviously it does.
But what if the fly is flying around?  What if the fly is falling?  Does it
make a difference if the plane is airtight or not?

-Mark

PS:  Now let's see ... 
	H (psi) = E (psi) ...
(this might take a while....)