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parcae: An explorer in the dense jungles of equatorial Africa leaves his hut. He takes 43 steps at an angle 45° north of east, then 79 steps at an angle 60° north of west, then 50 steps due south. Assume his steps all have equal length. Save him from becoming hopelessly lost in the jungle by giving him the displacement, calculated using the method of components, that will return him to his hut.

fallingfortruth: *covers eyes*

parcae: WHERE DO THEY COME UP WITH THIS SHIT

parcae: SERIOUSLY

parcae: wow, i have absolutely no idea how to do that.

parcae: but i enjoy the fact that they said to assume his steps all have equal length.

fallingfortruth: No, he is Skipping!

fallingfortruth: Because it is Gerard.

parcae: *giggles*

parcae: is it now.

parcae: what is gerard doing in the dense jungles of equatorial africa, i wonder?

fallingfortruth: Writing the new album.

fallingfortruth: He needed inspiration!

fallingfortruth: Ray sent him out to find Frank.

fallingfortruth: Only it turns out Frank had fallen asleep in the attic.

fallingfortruth: And now Gerard is lost.

This is why

fallingfortruth is my hero. Because he is AWESOME.

(Wow, I really hate physics. ALREADY. HOW AMAZING IS THAT.)

In other, less awful news, the interview with Jon and Spencer and accompanying article sort of made my day. How are they real, seriously.

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MATH GIVES GOOD PROMPT; WHO KNEW?

I need MCR icons.

NOT ME THAT'S FOR SURE.

You do.

Don't you just draw out the vectors with the appropriate angles and lengths, then figure out the components using sines and cosines and whatnot, and calculate the length of the vector from the starting point to the end point? I'm just wondering if there's some difficult trick in there that I'm missing.

Ahaha, of COURSE Gee got lost in the jungle <333

And Physics is the suck.

No, no, that's exactly what you do, I just haven't done physics since my junior year of high school (I'm a sophomore now, ftr) and had a brief moment of what the fucking fuck. And then I remembered.

I knooooow :D :D :D.

Yeah, basically. And my conference instructor is kind of crazy! So this shall be an interesting term.