What is your team up to at your hotel?

[Jeremiah Johnson]

I spent most of my nights trying to print off our pictures for the FIRST book submission. Night 1: Brought the printer back to the hotel, I had everything ready, but the wall plug half of the printer power cord was left in the pits. Night 2: Again, I had everything ready and this time the printer was all there, except for the driver disc. Night 3: Awww yeah... I got everything printed off, but just barely ran out of photo paper.

Much fun... not. I did get a chance to swim on Firday night and I was going to make a funny 648 commercial that involved a man thong with our logo on it and some members of 107 but I never got around to doing it.

[Uberbots]

you dont want to know ;-)

[Andrew Y.]

We stayed at the Hyatt

the lead mentor and some od the seniors went back and forth trying to prank eachother.
And a little bit of socializing with other teams and guests at the hotel.
And we also went to work out in the weight room.


As for the last security issues....we where also told we could not meet in the hotel because a few rooms had complained. After asking what rooms, the security guard named the rooms, but the funny part was.....they all belonged to us O well. It was fun tho

[BlondeNerd]

We stayed at the Sleep Inn. Each night, our team picked a hotel room and basically acted stupid. We played card games, watched TV, painted nails, surfed the 'net, etc. Lots of team bonding...

[evanisthat!]

Originally Posted by Uberbots

you dont want to know ;-)

Second!
Some others on 108 do know, but eh...

[Evenstar_342]

342 stayed at the Hyatt. Anyone there Saturday after we checked out in the morning notice anything unusual about the 16th floor elevator lobby? PM me if you did, we're just curious how long it lasted.

[BanksKid]

Originally Posted by Andrew Y.

We stayed at the Hyatt

the lead mentor and some od the seniors went back and forth trying to prank eachother.
And a little bit of socializing with other teams and guests at the hotel.
And we also went to work out in the weight room.


As for the last security issues....we where also told we could not meet in the hotel because a few rooms had complained. After asking what rooms, the security guard named the rooms, but the funny part was.....they all belonged to us O well. It was fun tho

AAH the power of cheese.........too bad we fell asleep on sat. night

[Otaku]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

We are very lucky. One of those bouncy balls landed not in the construction area but right next to us in the lobby.
I'll let all you bright students calculate the damage that can be done by solid objects dropped from great heights. The Marquis was filled with FIRST students and volunteers.

Assuming that the bouncyball weighs a tenth of a pound (or so, .05kg to be precise), dropped from the very top of the atrium to the very bottom...

67.13 Newtons.

That is (assuming I remember correctly) four times the force of a golfball dropped from one meter.

So yeah. It'd hurt. Because golf balls dropped from one meter hurt. But this would hurt more.

EDIT: Whoops! For some reason 40 * 4 = 60 in my brain

but basically it's a lot of force. And would hurt. Even if you take off the 2m or so from the height (assuming it hits a 2m tall person on top of the head) it's still going to hurt.

edit:

that's 2.7m/s, or .1mph.


edit (yes again):

It will take 52 seconds to hit the ground, too.

edit (whee):

I did some more math

here's the full thing:
"A bouncyball dropped from the top of the atrium at the Mariott Marquis, assuming it weighs .05kg, Will hit the ground with a force of 67.13N. The ball falls at a speed of 2.78m/s and will take 52 seconds to hit the ground. Assuming optimal conditions, that's going to be a 132m rebound at 90% effeciency. The ball, dropped from the 47th floor, will get back up to the 42nd floor."

[Pavan Dave]

...My cousin used to borrow my N64 for Latin trips when he was in high school and I was like 10. Now I understand why... Anyways we played Halo at one of the guys' rooms. It was actually kind of fun. But I'm not a big X-box guy... But at the IRI one of the people brought a Wii and we had a little Wii Party... Unfortunately there were only 2 controllers, but it was still fun!
DK, SSB, ...(on 64) > Wii > PS/Xbox

Pavan.

[waiakea2024]

We do a lot of planning or sleeping. Playing DS games. Being from Hawaii we cant Bring a whole lot...Im sure someone will bring a gamecube sometime soon. We do a lot of sightseeing and other "fun" things on trips so we are mostly very tired or sick one or the other

[+()c|D]

First off someone tries to find or set up an internet connection for the team(you know, the important thing) but most of us have PSP's or DS's, and a lot of us just play cards if there is nothing else to do...

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Otaku

Assuming that the bouncyball weighs a tenth of a pound (or so, .05kg to be precise), dropped from the very top of the atrium to the very bottom...

67.13 Newtons.

That is (assuming I remember correctly) four times the force of a golfball dropped from one meter.

So yeah. It'd hurt. Because golf balls dropped from one meter hurt. But this would hurt more.

EDIT: Whoops! For some reason 40 * 4 = 60 in my brain

but basically it's a lot of force. And would hurt. Even if you take off the 2m or so from the height (assuming it hits a 2m tall person on top of the head) it's still going to hurt.

edit:

that's 2.7m/s, or .1mph.


edit (yes again):

It will take 52 seconds to hit the ground, too.

edit (whee):

I did some more math

here's the full thing:
"A bouncyball dropped from the top of the atrium at the Mariott Marquis, assuming it weighs .05kg, Will hit the ground with a force of 67.13N. The ball falls at a speed of 2.78m/s and will take 52 seconds to hit the ground. Assuming optimal conditions, that's going to be a 132m rebound at 90% efficiency. The ball, dropped from the 47th floor, will get back up to the 42nd floor."

Seems a little off to me....

Acceleration of the ball would be 9.8 m/s/s.

I've never been there.... so 47 floors I'm assuming is 705 ft (15*47), which is ~215 m. So, integrating the velocity shows that it hits 215m at 6.6 seconds.

I'm betting my guesstimation of height is off... but it's a closer approximation of time at least.

I'm too tired to finish.... I'll let Otaku take over from here and come up with the energy; goodnight everyone.


EDIT: forgot terminal velocity. It hits 54m/s after 5.5s and has traveled 148m, leaving 67 to go. So add 67m / 54m/s and you get a total of 6.75 s at 54m/s (my old calc, physics and chem teachers would kill me for all the approximations and random rounding).

[Otaku]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Seems a little off to me....

Acceleration of the ball would be 9.8 m/s/s.

I've never been there.... so 47 floors I'm assuming is 705 ft (15*47), which is ~215 m. So, integrating the velocity shows that it hits 215m at 6.6 seconds.

I'm betting my guesstimation of height is off... but it's a closer approximation of time at least.

I'm too tired to finish.... I'll let Otaku take over from here and come up with the energy; goodnight everyone.


EDIT: forgot terminal velocity. It hits 54m/s after 5.5s and has traveled 148m, leaving 67 to go. So add 67m / 54m/s and you get a total of 6.75 s at 54m/s (my old calc, physics and chem teachers would kill me for all the approximations and random rounding).

I thought it over (and talked to our team leader who is also the freshman physics teacher and teaches this stuff) and you've got a point. I didn't take into account the acceleration and such. The Atrium is 147m tall, 47 stories, that's just about 3.1m/story.

I'll dig up my freshman science notebooks and look up the formulas.

Also, I didn't take into account wind resistance because I do my physics calculations in happy go lucky fun time physics land. Where resistance is nonexistant.

[ambie_o7]

Originally Posted by waiakea2024

We do a lot of planning or sleeping. Playing DS games. Being from Hawaii we cant Bring a whole lot...Im sure someone will bring a gamecube sometime soon. We do a lot of sightseeing and other "fun" things on trips so we are mostly very tired or sick one or the other

LoL...hotels=fun... who has time for sleep??!!... ooo 40 degree pool!! *yay team 2024*

o yea, it "ke koa o ha'aheo"

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Otaku

I thought it over (and talked to our team leader who is also the freshman physics teacher and teaches this stuff) and you've got a point. I didn't take into account the acceleration and such. The Atrium is 147m tall, 47 stories, that's just about 3.1m/story.

I'll dig up my freshman science notebooks and look up the formulas.

Also, I didn't take into account wind resistance because I do my physics calculations in happy go lucky fun time physics land. Where resistance is nonexistant.

Okay, now that I know the real height of 147m. It would hit after 5.48 seconds traveling 53.67m/s (which is only .33m/s from terminal velocity).

I don't need to calculate the energy on that, I know it's gonna hurt

EDIT: Gotta agree with ya about resistance..... World would be so much easier if we just forgot about that