And about 50 students. We shall struggle to survive in this wilderness.
Itasca Field Station
Not shown in the photo is the cafeteria to the right. Yes, we shall survive.
I am in a place with trees and lakes
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
That photo…we’re rotated 90°! Gravity is unpredictable, Nature is already running amuck!
Looks lovely to me, sideways and all. Shit, I have too much to do inside, but now I wanna be outside!
So you guys are standing on the equator?
“Hey gang,Tammy fig writes: ‘Hey Tick, Why do trees only grow upwards? What can we do to help save the trees?’
Why, trees grow all kinds of ways, Tammy. Up is just the one we notice most. Their roots grown down into the rich earth, and their branches grow sideways to, to, to mingle!” – The Tick, The Tick v. Education
Clearly the cafeteria to the right is in a mineshaft.
The gravity problem is the inevitable result of letting biologists do physics. (The problems that come from letting physicists do biology is left as an exercise for the reader, just to keep things Safe For Work.)
It looks like the cafeteria would be pretty dirty.
Help! Apparently I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
Don’t panic. Try dividing everyone by i, see if that works.
Perspective: I am on conference calls for the next four hours… I would rather be in this picture; in the wilderness.
Mute button and a window and you’re halfway there.
But seriously, my sympathies.
I’ve fallen! And I can’t get left!
I just assumed you were at the equator.
It’s underground?
That’s not a cafeteria. It’s my pantry!
“On” by Adam Roberts.
Naked Bunny with a Whip
Lol* I must be slow this evening. Took me best end of two minutes to work that one out.
*Actual out-loud laughing occurred.
I KNEW IT!
The cafeteria is hell!
This explains so much of my childhood and freshman college year.
I hope some of your students will to the obligatory jump over the Mississippi river.
If you divided God by i, would that make him real?
I have to admit, higher mathematics is too complex for me. If imaginary division works at all like real division, I think that calculation would make God integer?
And complain all you like about the gritty reality of the wilderness, PZ, but if you rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise you have my idea of paradise. Tall trees, interesting ground cover but not tangly undergrowth– and climate controlled space totally available. I can pack my own food, it’s the air conditioning I want!
Well, that is a complex question…
Long time since math, but: My hypothesis, which is mine and which is hopefully non-testable, is that it would reduce God by 2, making Him into Allah. (Pi e upon Him)
If I divided a sky faerie, it would be into strips, sautéed, for Myths Stroganov, served with a vin rouge.
PZ:
I got to spend two weeks camping. No idea what the scenery was like (smoke brought the visibility down to (usually) under a quarter mile (half a kilometre for all you furriners)). And we ate MREs.
I think you are having a better time.
But at least my world was right side up.
I’ve always thought that when there is a magnetic pole reversal, the poles moved. However, Poopyheaded Zed’s picture shows I was mistaken, the poles stay more-or-less fixed and the planet flips over.