You guys, I'm in love. There are only 3 posts so far, but stll. I just had to share the awesomeness.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/
It's like the Board and xkcd combined. Too bad he only posts once a week.
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Indefinite Integral
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"The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit." ~ Alfred North Whitehead
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Zedability
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Re: xkcd what if
I know 
it made me really happy. I want to ask him the carp question (http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/67852/) and see how he does the fluid friction, but I'm not sure I want to see a better answer than mine haha
it made me really happy. I want to ask him the carp question (http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/67852/) and see how he does the fluid friction, but I'm not sure I want to see a better answer than mine hahaRe: xkcd what if
Oh, I saw that! Very cool.
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Giovanni Schwartz
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Re: xkcd what if
whu?
If the average bird produces half a fluid ounce of poop a day, and Americans drive about 3 trillion miles a year, then in order to satisfy US demand, cars that ran on bird poop would need to get a minimum of:
(300 billion birds×0.5fluid oz/day)/(3 trillion miles/year)=0.335mm2=13 miles per gallon
Unit cancellation is weird.