Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: Re: infinitesimal bees Message-ID: <2701@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 05:27:32 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2701 Posted: Fri Nov 1 05:27:32 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 04:56:51 EST References: <10852@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1628@uwmacc.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 14 > On any planet where bees can turn around in infinitesimal > time, cars are frictionless and not allowed on the equator > (John von Neumann told me this personally). Therefore, > the bee is still flying. They did teach you about the > Coriolis force in high school, didn't they? Does it matter whether the bees turn left or right? Oh, oops, wrong problem.. Really, this bee business is equivalent to the fly and the bicycles and several other standard statements of this puzzle and was beaten to death (I thought) in this newsgroup not very long ago. Could we please not keep posting puzzles out of the stock puzzle books? Thanks..