:comment:
Shushhhh!

:subject:
A TNT for the Brain

:purpose:
An encrypted message will follow

:goal:
Find ... what is it about?

:Begin:
begin

:Message:
One word (a nationality) and a 3 digit number

:Describtion:
All mugus out there please use your eyes in order to read the text.

:Initialization:
Ana nana anana ana bannana esh shesh bish esh misg waka wakaaa WoW WoooooW Who Who Who Whhhhooooooo

:encrypted message:
mugu keep offffff
i dey here ooooooooooo
nwa nne keep off
work in progress ok my guys keep it uppppp
all mugus stay clear

:hint:
mugu@mugucom

O&O (Hi! I thought of introducing myself and participate with "Guess what" thread.)

---

First, "TNT for the Brain" is a name of a song by ... Enigma
Second, ... I did a mistake in the message part :(
It should read ...

:Message:
3 digit number + a noun that means ... a swindle.
In general ... it describes a term.

The encrypted message shows you the scheme or the preliminary plan for this term ... and for an expert, it should tell him the origin (nationality) of such plan ... making the term even much easier to find.

The hint is link to a Google search ... showing you some examples.

What is this term? (48 hours remaining)

O&O (Sorry ... no more details)

419 scam

Regards Hans

P.S: D'Oh

---

419 scam
Regards Hans
P.S: D'Oh

That's right Hans Dorn ... you figuered it out all ... yourself :)
Thanks for participating.

Based on the time you posted the right answer, you have earned a total of TNTFB "TNT for the Brain" points equals to 47.87 ...

... and a rating of +1

Congrats!

Stay tuned as another TNTFB will shortly ... follows.

O&O (No you did not!)

---

:comment:
Math science is for sick minds, computer science is for those who are really sick.

:subject:
A TNT for the Brain # 02

:purpose:
An encrypted message will follow

:goal:
Descripe ... the "Hocus Pucos" used.

:Message:
Pick ANY number ...
Multibly the number by 2
Add 2 to the total
Divide the result by 2
Now subtract your original number from the reslut and ...
The remaining will always be ... 1

:Description:
The Hocus Pucos is that the remaining number will always be half of the number you tell him to add in step 3 ... provided it is even number.

:Initialization:
If math scientists are so smart then how come they left the division of any value by zero ... unidentified?!

:encrypted message:
A psychic ball that ... reads the mind?!!
CLICK HERE... and follow the instructions

:hint:
"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers", Scott Adams

:Time:
48 hours

:begin:

O&O

Any two digit number can be written as 10*a + b, a = 1..9

10*a+b - (a+b) =
10*a - a + b - b =
9*a

All multiples of 9 , up to 81, have the same symbol.


Regards Hans

P.S:

What have I won, a washing machine or something else :o)

---

Hans Dorn ... My man! You did it again!

You meet the goal of TNTFB # 02 and described ...glibly... the "Hocus Pucos" used in that.. huh... Psychic "My a$$" ball. You didn't provide a descriptive explanation ;) but hey!... Where will the fun playing with that ball be?

Congratulation!

Based on the time you submitted your answer... you earned 47.05 TNTFB points.
Which brings your total points to 94.92... leading the... con..test?!

You know,..I'll think about it...and...see what I can do.

And yes,...You also deserved...an additional rating of +1.

Stay tuned!... the next TNTFB will be...let's say exceptional.
For hopes that other members...will join ... and put a stop to Hans Dorn's triumphant :o)

O&O (Hmmm,...a man thinks of a "washing machine" as a prize. A man thinks?!)

Any two digit number can be written as 10*a + b, a = 1..9
10*a+b - (a+b) =
10*a - a + b - b =
9*a
All multiples of 9 , up to 81, have the same symbol.
Regards Hans
P.S:
What have I won, a washing machine or something else :o)

---

:comment:
"Speed has an upper bound; nothing can pass the speed of light", Albert Einstein - Theory of Special Relativity.

:subject:
A TNT for the Brain # 03

:purpose:
An encrypted message will follow

:goal:
Answer the question.

:Message:
How fast light travels in a vacuum?

:Answer:
299,792,458 meters per second which is approximately 1,079,252,848.8 km/h, 186,282.4 miles per second or 670,616,629.38 miles per hour.

:Initialization:
Velocity field in a thin lamina of variable thickness generated by singularities as applied to the problem of flow past a cascade of blades of a radial-axial hydroturbine is still a velocity field in a thin lamina of variable thickness generated by singularities as applied to the problem of flow past a cascade of blades of a radial-axial hydroturbine.

:encrypted message:
If you drove your car into space, and turned your head lights on when you were going at the speed of light, would you still have lights or would they be dark?

:hint:
Paradox of life # 14

:Time:
48 hours

:begin:

O&O (It's time for me to ... gain some points.)

If you were at the speed of light wouldn't you be so compressed that you wouldn't be able to reach the switch?
Guesswork: You wouldn't have light because the photons would not be able to move ahead of the car, they would stay try to go behind but reflect from the reflector and build up inside the light causing strange and dangerous things to happen. Perhaps the energy would turn into matter a la E=mc2 and start producing substances inside the light.
End Guesswork

---

Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Since nothing can move with light speed, but particles with no rest mass, you'd have to build your "car" out of photons.

I'm not aware of anything else without rest mass.

Putting a headlight on a car made out of photons is rather pointless :o)

Regards Hans

P.S: If you change that to "a car going virtually as fast as light" things are getting interesting.
I don't have an answer right now, but maybe I'll get one in time

P.P.S:

OK, here's my best guess:

The faster you go, the more energetic the photons from your headlight are getting, because of the doppler effect. (Think of gamma rays)

If you point your headlight at an object, these energetic photons will either be
absorbed, making the object appear perfectly black, or pass right through, making the object
perfectly transparent.

So for all practical applications, your headlights have become useless.
You could still use them to read your newspaper, though :o)

---

Since nothing can move with light speed, but particles with no rest mass, you'd have to build your "car" out of photons.

I'm not aware of anything else without rest mass.

Putting a headlight on a car made out of photons is rather pointless :o)

Regards Hans

P.S: If you change that to "a car going virtually as fast as light" things are getting interesting.
I don't have an answer right now, but maybe I'll get one in time

Surely at that point you have time dilation, so the headlights would be on for you?

---

Reality Internet Personality

Since nothing can move with light speed, but particles with no rest mass, you'd have to build your "car" out of photons.

I'm not aware of anything else without rest mass.

Putting a headlight on a car made out of photons is rather pointless :o)

Regards Hans

P.S: If you change that to "a car going virtually as fast as light" things are getting interesting.
I don't have an answer right now, but maybe I'll get one in time

Surely at that point you have time dilation, so the headlights would be on for you?

Yup. I sneaked in a "PPS" :o)

---

Yup. I sneaked in a "PPS" :o)

curses

---

Reality Internet Personality

If you were at the speed of light wouldn't you be so compressed that you wouldn't be able to reach the switch?

I really don't know ... It all requires for me to push a red button at location A then ... ZAAAAABBBBB! I found myself at location B ... in a blink of an eye ... as the only muscle I could move. :)

Guesswork: You wouldn't have light because the photons would not be able to move ahead of the car, they would stay try to go behind but reflect from the reflector and build up inside the light causing strange and dangerous things to happen. Perhaps the energy would turn into matter a la E=mc2 and start producing substances inside the light.
End Guesswork

You see,... I look at as if I'm riding a train moving at certain speed let's call it (vi). In my hand, there's a ball. If I throw it vertically, where will the ball fall. a) In front of me. b)On my hand. c) Behind me.

Now, ask a pitcher, on the same train, to throw the ball, at a speed equals v1, to a batter at the far end. What is the speed of the ball to an observer who is NOT onboard the train. a)vi. b)2vi. c)Strike 3.

O&O (Welcome to the game :)

---

OK, here's my best guess:

The faster you go, the more energetic the photons from your headlight are getting, because of the doppler effect. (Think of gamma rays)

If you point your headlight at an object, these energetic photons will either be absorbed, making the object appear perfectly black, or pass right through, making the object perfectly transparent.

So for all practical applications, your headlights have become useless.
You could still use them to read your newspaper, though :o)

I totally lost what the question was, Hans Dorn??!
I guess it is an indication of ... a wrong answer, isn't it?

O&O (Guess what?! )

:encrypted message:
If you drove your car into space, and turned your head lights on when you were going at the speed of light, would you still have lights or would they be dark?

:hint:
Paradox of life # 14

O&O (It's time for me to ... gain some points.)

Answer: Even if we were driving a truck into space, we would still have to have our lights on when driving at the speed of light ... because it's so dark up there :)

Yes, it is a paradox, but even if we are moving at speed of light, the light will be still running away from us.

But ... there's one little catch...

When we are moving at speed of light relatively to some observer, he (the observer) sees that our time is standing still (we look like frozen) and that is called time dilatation. As result, if we are moving at speed of light and we turn our lights on, we will see the lights, but an observer will not see our lights because we are frozen to him.

And while turning our lights on, we will travel infinite distance (again time dilatation)... This relativity business can be really confuzing, but basic idea is that speed of light is constant, regardless of one's speeed. It is always running away from us at 300 000 km/s.

I believe I deserve some TTFB points for my answer ...
So,... according to the time of my post (minus Nov 15)... I got ... 0.93 points.

TTFB Ranking
1- Hans Dorn = 94.92 TTFB points + Total rating of +3
2- Es99 = 47.52 TTFB points + Total rating of +1
3- O&O = 0.93 TTFB points + Total rating of +1

O&O (No matter how slow you will be driving, stop at the side of the road and ...leak.)

Hans Dorn ... if I may ...

Your ... 1569444 ... has ...
CPU type GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Number of CPUs 2

Measured floating point speed: 3056.5 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed: 8852.17 million ops/sec

How?

O&O (... Got me inspired to the next TTFB question.)

Hans Dorn ... if I may ...

Your ... 1569444 ... has ...
CPU type GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Number of CPUs 2

Measured floating point speed: 3056.5 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed: 8852.17 million ops/sec

How?

O&O (... Got me inspired to the next TTFB question.)

I'm using an optimized Boinc client to keep the claimed credit in line with the other users.
I'm claiming 20-25 credits per WU since this seems to be the average granted credit ATM.

The benchmark numbers are pretty ridiculous by themselves.

Regards Hans

---

TTFB Ranking
1- Hans Dorn = 94.92 TTFB points + Total rating of +3
2- Es99 = 47.52 TTFB points + Total rating of +1
3- O&O = 0.93 TTFB points + Total rating of +1

Correction ...
TTFB Ranking
1- Hans Dorn = 94.92 TTFB points + Total rating of +3
2- The Simonator = 47.52 TTFB points + Total rating of +1
3- O&O = 0.93 TTFB points + Total rating of +1

O&O(Sorry! As he got ... confused)

TTFB Ranking
1- Hans Dorn = 94.92 TTFB points + Total rating of +3
2- Es99 = 47.52 TTFB points + Total rating of +1
3- O&O = 0.93 TTFB points + Total rating of +1

Correction ...
TTFB Ranking
1- Hans Dorn = 94.92 TTFB points + Total rating of +3
2- The Simonator = 47.52 TTFB points + Total rating of +1
3- O&O = 0.93 TTFB points + Total rating of +1

O&O(Sorry! As he got ... confused)

How come The Simonator got more than me? He was talking rubbish. It's not fair! I don't like this competition. :(

---

Reality Internet Personality