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.