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(Fox News) Scary Fun-loving San Francisco cable car decides to give passengers an impromptu reminder of Newton's First Law of Motion   (foxnews.com) divider line 34
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i'm intellectual and stuff 2009-11-22 01:29:56 AM  
A kid got shot for ringing doorbells? Now that's an article I have to read.

 
FarkLordOfTheSith 2009-11-22 01:39:59 AM  
A refresher course in basic physics is always a good thing.

 
The All-Powerful Atheismo 2009-11-22 01:41:48 AM  
FarkLordOfTheSith: A refresher course in basic physics is always a good thing.

Two bad submitter didn't get one

F=m*a*(your mom)

 
T-Luv 2009-11-22 01:45:35 AM  
snugglyhugs: It's really just a theory.

Don't let the atheists tell you they have "laws" in their religion (science) they don't.

In addition, the first law of motion is at best incomplete, if not wrong.


Well, fix it.

 
Rhaab 2009-11-22 01:46:36 AM  
snugglyhugs: Don't let the atheists tell you they have "laws" in their religion (science) they don't.

It's true. (new window)

 
GoSurfing 2009-11-22 01:47:13 AM  
T-Luv: snugglyhugs: It's really just a theory.

Don't let the atheists tell you they have "laws" in their religion (science) they don't.

In addition, the first law of motion is at best incomplete, if not wrong.

Well, fix it.


Fight! Fight!

 
Stoneur [TotalFark] 2009-11-22 01:48:41 AM  
Ah, that would explain the two cable cars butted together on Powell Street.

/I work for MUNI
//but not on cable cars

 
trailerpark_manager 2009-11-22 01:54:07 AM  
snugglyhugs: T-Luv: snugglyhugs: It's really just a theory.

Don't let the atheists tell you they have "laws" in their religion (science) they don't.

In addition, the first law of motion is at best incomplete, if not wrong.

Well, fix it.

too busy, comcast just unblocked "Motherless" again

shilckshlickshlickshlick


Why would they block, then unblock? Requesting details

 
Elektrohed 2009-11-22 01:56:11 AM  
trailerpark_manager: snugglyhugs: T-Luv: snugglyhugs: It's really just a theory.

Don't let the atheists tell you they have "laws" in their religion (science) they don't.

In addition, the first law of motion is at best incomplete, if not wrong.

Well, fix it.

too busy, comcast just unblocked "Motherless" again

shilckshlickshlickshlick

Why would they block, then unblock? Requesting details



Comcast giveth - Comcast taketh away.

 
Kevin72 2009-11-22 01:58:03 AM  
1873 technology/engineering breakthrough still has the same ups and downs 136 years later.

 
AzraelBrown 2009-11-22 02:20:41 AM  
i'm intellectual and stuff: A kid got shot for ringing doorbells? Now that's an article I have to read.

Here you go.

 
Elektrohed 2009-11-22 02:29:41 AM  
AzraelBrown: i'm intellectual and stuff: A kid got shot for ringing doorbells? Now that's an article I have to read.

Here you go.



Took me a while on that one. I'm guessing since it was the nineteen-aughts, they weren't FROZEN peas; or maybe he froze peas outside?

Either way, let's take a moment to envision a gross mess of peas combined with several entry wounds.

You're welcome!

 
DigitalCoffee 2009-11-22 02:43:02 AM  
An object in motion will be moving in the wrong direction. An object at rest will be in the wrong place.

/newton; revised 3rd ed.

 
lohphat 2009-11-22 02:45:03 AM  
Stoneur: /I work for MUNI

Given your Fark handle and Muni's less-than-third-world-performance-and-work-ethic, I'm hardly surprised.

 
Stoneur [TotalFark] 2009-11-22 02:50:13 AM  
lohphat: Stoneur: /I work for MUNI

Given your Fark handle and Muni's less-than-third-world-performance-and-work-ethic, I'm hardly surprised.


KSFO, eh? Next you'll be telling me Rush is right and Sarah Palin will become our next president.

 
logruszed [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-11-22 02:56:52 AM  
Well, bodies at rest tend to be on Fark.

 
Mr. Potatoass 2009-11-22 03:05:58 AM  
Rice-A-Roni Whiplash. The San Francisco treat.

 
limboslam 2009-11-22 03:27:09 AM  
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Hey, I don't know who wrote which law of motion. I'm just glad they wrote it.

 
Gyrfalcon 2009-11-22 03:43:56 AM  
"A cable car at the top of a San Francisco hill has to end up at the bottom of it sooner or later"?

or,

"A bunch of idiot tourists who think it's fun to ride on the outside of a cable car will find out why residents don't before the end of the day"?

I didn't know those were laws of Motion, but they should be Laws of San Francisco.

 
red5ish 2009-11-22 05:02:04 AM  
At the ends of the cable car lines there are turntables where they do further proofs of Newtons second law of rotation.
Really.

 
xsarien 2009-11-22 05:05:07 AM  
I live on the Powell St. line, so I'm really getting a kick out of some of these replies...

/ Too many tourists
// The cable car's only useful when you have about 3 bags of groceries, no car, and an otherwise long walk up hill

 
x10nd 2009-11-22 05:44:39 AM  
limboslam: Hey, I don't know who wrote which law of motion. I'm just glad they wrote it.

Jigsaw the above (new window)

 
Oldiron_79 2009-11-22 09:23:43 AM  
gravity, its not jut a good idea, ITS THE LAW.

 
Nightmaretony 2009-11-22 10:19:07 AM  
Stoneur: Ah, that would explain the two cable cars butted together on Powell Street.

/I work for MUNI
//but not on cable cars


Sounds like as loose strand situation.

//cable car nut

 
iodine 2009-11-22 11:55:53 AM  
Powell St.? No big deal. Real Men ride the Hyde St. line.

 
EvilVanMan 2009-11-22 12:11:00 PM  
x10nd: limboslam: Hey, I don't know who wrote which law of motion. I'm just glad they wrote it.

Jigsaw the above (new window)


That'd be nice if it worked worth a crap.

 
LegalizeThoughtCrime 2009-11-22 02:22:37 PM  
An object stays in motion
(or else remains at rest)
until by some external Force its nature is impressed
- Aleister Crowley

 
simpsonfan 2009-11-22 02:56:07 PM  
Just hope one doesn't decide to malfunction going down Hyde St. towards Fisherman's Wharf.

 
Glenechocreek 2009-11-22 04:14:04 PM  
Steve McQueen never rode the cable car.

 
xsarien 2009-11-22 05:27:55 PM  
iodine: Powell St.? No big deal. Real Men ride the Hyde St. line.

Which is part of the Powell line.

 
tweaksfo 2009-11-22 07:14:56 PM  
Nightmaretony 2009-11-22 10:19:07 AM
Stoneur: Ah, that would explain the two cable cars butted together on Powell Street.

/I work for MUNI
//but not on cable cars

Sounds like as loose strand situation.

//cable car nut

Just what I was thinking. A loose strand can actually drag the car along. I love riding them to work when the touristas have gone.

 
jenny next 2009-11-22 08:07:01 PM  
Must have been on a hill. When I visited SF about a year ago, I was surprised at how slow cable cars move. The ones in movies or on Tony Hawk's video game were much faster.
On a hill, though, the car's speed would not matter all that much.

 
tenton 2009-11-23 04:09:54 PM  
DigitalCoffee: An object in motion will be moving in the wrong direction. An object at rest will be in the wrong place.

/newton; revised 3rd ed.


Edited by Murphy?

 
lohphat 2009-11-24 05:20:02 PM  
Stoneur: KSFO, eh? Next you'll be telling me Rush is right and Sarah Palin will become our next president.

Nope, I voted for the black man.

And yes, I can't wait until Muni is sold off and privatized to get rid of the halfway-house diabetic mouth-breathers infecting the payroll.

 
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