Ice-cream Stick Slide Rule

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CuriosityShow

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@snappycattimesten Ай бұрын

Huge respect to engineers and mathematicians who calculated and built the world before computers/calculators.

@pglink Ай бұрын

It works because those ice-cream sticks are made from logs.

@sean---the-other-one Ай бұрын

@@pglink Heeeeeyyyyy! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@will9501 Ай бұрын

Underrated pun right here

@aeromodeller1 Ай бұрын

Natural logs, too.

@CharlesWatson-js1pm Ай бұрын

Very good. No bones about it. Very good.

@aeromodeller1 Ай бұрын

@@CharlesWatson-js1pm Napier kept his bones.

@Soggyfist Ай бұрын

I am so glad that this channel exists and even more so that I stumbled upon it! I was very young when the Curiosity show was on TV, but it still helped my inquisitive brain develop. Thank you!

@CuriosityShow Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it - Rob

@kri249 Ай бұрын

I loved this show as a kid, particularly the cool visual stuff and contraptions they made. But sadly I was too young to appreciate the more complicated mathematical stuff. Watching now as an adult just makes me derive a whole new appreciation for it.

@michaelkeller5008 Ай бұрын

as belonging to the generation "use your head" and later "use the calculator", i was always fascinated about the slide rules and how they worked; simple yet, if known how to, fast and accurate...

@TheFilipFonky Ай бұрын

Wow, I didnt know slide rules existed, that's super neat

@RobertKonigsberg Ай бұрын

Zeno's pet rabbit

@apart-timeastronaut6530 Ай бұрын

I’ve been subscribed to this channel for as long as I can remember and just now asked myself “are these old clips? Or is someone recording these regularly?”

@FreakyRufus Ай бұрын

Wikipedia says The Curiosity Show was made between 1972 and 1990. These are clips from that TV program.

@kri249 Ай бұрын

They're all old episodes. I watched this as a kid in the 80s.

@CuriosityShow Ай бұрын

Yes, all clips from our 30-minute episodes, broadcast in 14 countries between 1972 and 1990. We have put a few complete episodes up so people can see what they were like - Rob

@ardeet Ай бұрын

@@CuriosityShow Interesting how well they still work. I like these popping up in my feed.

@nufe Ай бұрын

I remember watching this exact clip back in the day

@ostanin_vadym Ай бұрын

Thank you for useful knowledge

@bertjesklotepino Ай бұрын

this was informative. They never taught any of this at school. Or not that i can remember.

@tobyfitzpatrick3914 Ай бұрын

So what's the answer to the first paradox..?

@maxmn5821 Ай бұрын

Regarding the truck & runner - well, that’s obvious: when the distance becomes less than Planck length, the truck can overtake the runner. That is, only if is has more than Planck energy, of course.

@philipbyrnes7501 Ай бұрын

Mmmmm doubtful

@doktormcnasty Ай бұрын

Thing is it doesn't happen the way he showed it. The truck doesn't wait for you to travel 1cm before it travels 0.5cm it's moving at the same time. This paradox was solved once the calculus was invented.

@londonalicante Ай бұрын

There's one point I don't understand: the styling of the video and the presenter's shirt seem to be from about a decade before pocket calculators became widespread.

@prestonbyrd8443 Ай бұрын

Somewhere, I have one of my grandpa's old slide rules.

@sean---the-other-one Ай бұрын

@@prestonbyrd8443 Give it back

@JohnBerry-q1h Ай бұрын

👦: _”But Mom! the_ _man said_ 🍦 _ice cream would_ _make me_ SMARTER !!”

@rainerseeger4195 Ай бұрын

Great show. Sorry it wasn't around when I was a kid

@TheFilipFonky Ай бұрын

Well it's not your fault😅

@shaneeslick Ай бұрын

Curiosity Show has been around since '72 & was made until 1990 then repeated on Aussie Tv for many years M-F afternoon + Saturday Mornings, plus was available in some other countries with translations when necesarry like Germany. Maybe you meant Sorry it wasn't available where you lived

@sarihaddu Ай бұрын

Nostalgic ☺️

@attilajuhasz2526 Ай бұрын

Love it!

@Nikola76 Ай бұрын

Asymptotic line

@swesleyc7 Ай бұрын

The running story is a bit confusing. The truck will indeed catch you in reality. It's a vector math problem (speed & direction). For example, there's a truck moving towards you from behind at 15-mph and you're running at 5-mph. Both are traveling in the same direction. Relative to you, the runner, it would appear the truck is traveling at 10-mph towards you (the difference). They eventually meet because both are traveling in the same frame of reference, the ground. A contrary example would be if the truck is moving AWAY from you. As the runner, it would appear as if the truck is traveling at 20-mph in the opposite direction.

@funnybobjr Ай бұрын

The trick is in how catching up is described. He always describes the truck catching up as when it would have reached your position. Defining the problem this way means you can never account for what happens after it passes you. I believe this would make it something called a supertask.

@keycadearcadecontrollers467 Ай бұрын

The issue is the time between each points he is referring to gets smaller and smaller until it tends towards zero. So each instance he is talking about refers to gets shorter and shorter!

@andrewwalker7276 Ай бұрын

First story with the truck is one of Zeno's paradoxes, look it up on wikipedia etc. You can create an infinte series of time steps, but you'll still get run over! 😂

@hardcastlemacormac7101 Ай бұрын

I remember this episode. I got a hiding because I pulled all the sticks out of dads ice blocks then I wasn't allowed to watch Skippy. Why did i use all the sticks because you only got one shot there was no rewinding and I couldn't remember it properly so I used all the sticks trying.