Light on content but had a neat riddle (I actually "solved" or guessed it pats self on back)
"You're standing on the surface of the Earth," Musk begins, according to the book. "You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you?"
This riddle doesn't look hard at all (solved it nearly instantly after reading it), but I'm not sure I could provide an instant answer during such stressful conditions as mentioned in the article.
Sorry but no matter how high I value his contributions to technology do I believe statements like that. Just think about it. How would these 4 hours downtime be divided? One would think all goes towards sleep. But can you really close your laptop, instantly jump into bed and sleep? No showers? Brushing teeth? Eating something?
And what about in the morning? Alarm clock goes of, jump out of bed and instantly open the laptop and start working?
Again, I like the guy enough but I wish they would stop to publish these obviously fake fluff factoids.
You can still be a genius when working reasonable hours.
You are a bit over a mile from the south pole (how much a of bit requires math i don't feel like doing, but is very important)
You walk towards the pole, turn and walk west in an exactly 1 mile circumference circle around the pole (this is why the "bit" was important) and you walk back north to where you started.
There is only one valid point on the northern hemisphere (the north pole) and a ring of points at the south pole.
[+] [-] josefresco|11 years ago|reply
"You're standing on the surface of the Earth," Musk begins, according to the book. "You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you?"
Answer in the article.
[+] [-] kbart|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ionwake|11 years ago|reply
I would do nearly anything to work for him in cali.
[+] [-] yaeger|11 years ago|reply
Sorry but no matter how high I value his contributions to technology do I believe statements like that. Just think about it. How would these 4 hours downtime be divided? One would think all goes towards sleep. But can you really close your laptop, instantly jump into bed and sleep? No showers? Brushing teeth? Eating something? And what about in the morning? Alarm clock goes of, jump out of bed and instantly open the laptop and start working?
Again, I like the guy enough but I wish they would stop to publish these obviously fake fluff factoids. You can still be a genius when working reasonable hours.
[+] [-] ollysb|11 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] Rhapso|11 years ago|reply
You are a bit over a mile from the south pole (how much a of bit requires math i don't feel like doing, but is very important) You walk towards the pole, turn and walk west in an exactly 1 mile circumference circle around the pole (this is why the "bit" was important) and you walk back north to where you started.
There is only one valid point on the northern hemisphere (the north pole) and a ring of points at the south pole.
found the math I need! https://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/whittle/astr553/Topic16...
C = R sin(r/R) R = radius of earth aprox( 3,959) C = 1 mile solution is r+1 distance from the south pole
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