Thursday, February 01, 2007

Re-up

Pathetic that I posted four times last year. Wow. Here's something to help put the edge back on:

1. Say there are two sets of two boulders; four boulders in total, all the same size (roughly 20'x20'x20'). Set A and Set B we'll call them. The two boulders in Set A sit relatively close to one another say seven feet apart. Same for Set B. The difference is that the gap between the two boulders in Set A is three feet deep and the gap between the two boulders in Set B is eighty feet deep. If there is no rain or wind or snow or sun in my eyes and I'm not being chased by a rhino or elephant or lion or tiger or a militia or a tribe blowing poisonous darts and I leap from one of the Set A boulders to the other, that's not really a big deal. It's a seven foot leap over a three foot deep hole. If, under the same non-adverse conditions, I perform a similar leap from one Set B boulder to the other, it's still not a big deal. It's a seven foot leap over an eighty foot deep hole. The point is it's not a risk either way if you know you can jump seven feet.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

but with the second scenario you have to fight against your mind knowing that IF you didn't make it you might not survive the fall... and since the mind is such a powerful machine, it many cases you would end up plummeting 80 feet just because you know it's a possibility.... unless your name is adam matthews and you are so sure of yourself that your mind wouldn't have a chance at 2nd guessing itself...