Today's physics lesson: An object in motion will stay in motion
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniCareful auditors of this journal will recall that yesterday in these parts, it snowed. After it snowed, it sleeted (slet?) for a while, then rained. It is currently snowing again, quite prettily.
This means that, despite the best efforts of the City of Waterville and the college grounds crew, the streets are covered in -- anybody? Yes, you in the back -- Yes, thank you, very good.
The streets are covered in SNOW. Snow, for those of you who live in the Warm Lands, is slick.
So, I'm driving up the hill, keeping well back from the car in front of me, and thinking that the little green Subaru is champion, when what should happen but that a Citizen of the Campus, without even looking, steps into the street, dangerously close to the lead vehicle. The driver slams on the brakes, not wishing to bag a student out of season -- and the car slides.
The kid -- is a lucky, lucky kid. The driver probably aged twenty years. The kid, alas, does not know his luck; as far as I could see, he never turned his punkin' haid.
Now, yes. The Rule on campus is that walkers trump vehicular traffic; we in cars must stop to let those on foot cross the street. But, honestly, it might not be a bad idea to, yanno, consider conditions, and cut the poor, lumbering automobiles some slack.
This means that, despite the best efforts of the City of Waterville and the college grounds crew, the streets are covered in -- anybody? Yes, you in the back -- Yes, thank you, very good.
The streets are covered in SNOW. Snow, for those of you who live in the Warm Lands, is slick.
So, I'm driving up the hill, keeping well back from the car in front of me, and thinking that the little green Subaru is champion, when what should happen but that a Citizen of the Campus, without even looking, steps into the street, dangerously close to the lead vehicle. The driver slams on the brakes, not wishing to bag a student out of season -- and the car slides.
The kid -- is a lucky, lucky kid. The driver probably aged twenty years. The kid, alas, does not know his luck; as far as I could see, he never turned his punkin' haid.
Now, yes. The Rule on campus is that walkers trump vehicular traffic; we in cars must stop to let those on foot cross the street. But, honestly, it might not be a bad idea to, yanno, consider conditions, and cut the poor, lumbering automobiles some slack.
