So Annie....

[Evil Squirrel]

Learning anything yet.....?

Spoiler

[NSAS]

Dear Mr. E. Squirrel,

You constantly amaze the Awards Committee. Now we going to have to amend the presentation certificate to reflect your volunteer tutoring activities and Physics Classes. Mr. Newton world be so proud.

Your friends

NSAS

[Evil Squirrel]

Dear Mr. E. Squirrel,

You constantly amaze the Awards Committee. Now we going to have to amend the presentation certificate to reflect your volunteer tutoring activities and Physics Classes. Mr. Newton world be so proud.

Your friends

NSAS

I didn't mention before that I have a PhD? Why, it must've slipped my mind! I figure I may as well put it to good use and teach my fellow four footers a few things about how our world works. Annie even brings an acorn to class for me every day....

[AnnieCamaro]

Learning anything yet.....?

Spoiler

Excellent drawing, there, Evil.

Yes, I have learned through physics that the force you are exerting on the rope in your paw is equal to the mass of the anvil (since it has no acceleration in its steady state.) I have learned that if you let go of the rope, the anvil will gain acceleration downward at the speed of gravity, or 9.8 meters per second. I have learned how to calculate the time it would take for the anvil to fall to the surface below, but there's no need, because I learned long, long ago to nevernevernever lay down underneath any branch to which you had access.

Even before I began my education, I wasn't stupid.

/:P\

[AnnieCamaro]

Dear Mr. E. Squirrel,

You constantly amaze the Awards Committee. Now we going to have to amend the presentation certificate to reflect your volunteer tutoring activities and Physics Classes. Mr. Newton world be so proud.

Your friends

NSAS

I didn't mention before that I have a PhD? Why, it must've slipped my mind! I figure I may as well put it to good use and teach my fellow four footers a few things about how our world works. Annie even brings an acorn to class for me every day....

Dear Mr. NSAS:

If your organization wishes to bestow additional awards upon Evil Squirrel, I would suggest that you recognize his accomplishments for writing fiction.

Sincerely,
Annie

[MarleysGh0st]

Excellent drawing, there, Evil.

Yes, I have learned through physics that the force you are exerting on the rope in your paw is equal to the mass of the anvil (since it has no acceleration in its steady state.) I have learned that if you let go of the rope, the anvil will gain acceleration downward at the speed of gravity, or 9.8 meters per second. I have learned how to calculate the time it would take for the anvil to fall to the surface below, but there's no need, because I learned long, long ago to nevernevernever lay down underneath any branch to which you had access.

Even before I began my education, I wasn't stupid.

/:P\

And, of course, you're being too polite to mention that the force that Evil is exerting on that rope cannot exceed his own weight (at least not without some mechanism for anchoring him to the ground, which is not indicated in the illustration). Therefore, that thing suspended from the tree is not an anvil, but merely an anvil-shaped piñata.

[Evil Squirrel]

Dear Mr. E. Squirrel,

You constantly amaze the Awards Committee. Now we going to have to amend the presentation certificate to reflect your volunteer tutoring activities and Physics Classes. Mr. Newton world be so proud.

Your friends

NSAS

I didn't mention before that I have a PhD? Why, it must've slipped my mind! I figure I may as well put it to good use and teach my fellow four footers a few things about how our world works. Annie even brings an acorn to class for me every day....

Dear Mr. NSAS:

If your organization wishes to bestow additional awards upon Evil Squirrel, I would suggest that you recognize his accomplishments for writing fiction.

Sincerely,
Annie

That is so sweet of you to recommend me for further accolades! Really, though, I think I'm running out of space in my tree to hang up all my placques, awards, ribbons, certificates, trophies, medals, and other such trinkets I have won over the years. I may bump up your grade on your final exam, though....

[Evil Squirrel]

Excellent drawing, there, Evil.

Yes, I have learned through physics that the force you are exerting on the rope in your paw is equal to the mass of the anvil (since it has no acceleration in its steady state.) I have learned that if you let go of the rope, the anvil will gain acceleration downward at the speed of gravity, or 9.8 meters per second. I have learned how to calculate the time it would take for the anvil to fall to the surface below, but there's no need, because I learned long, long ago to nevernevernever lay down underneath any branch to which you had access.

Even before I began my education, I wasn't stupid.

/:P\

And, of course, you're being too polite to mention that the force that Evil is exerting on that rope cannot exceed his own weight (at least not without some mechanism for anchoring him to the ground, which is not indicated in the illustration). Therefore, that thing suspended from the tree is not an anvil, but merely an anvil-shaped piñata.

Have you ever felt my biceps, Mr. Gh0st? I have a chiselled physique from years of tree climbing acrobatics....

[MarleysGh0st]

Excellent drawing, there, Evil.

Yes, I have learned through physics that the force you are exerting on the rope in your paw is equal to the mass of the anvil (since it has no acceleration in its steady state.) I have learned that if you let go of the rope, the anvil will gain acceleration downward at the speed of gravity, or 9.8 meters per second. I have learned how to calculate the time it would take for the anvil to fall to the surface below, but there's no need, because I learned long, long ago to nevernevernever lay down underneath any branch to which you had access.

Even before I began my education, I wasn't stupid.

/:P\

And, of course, you're being too polite to mention that the force that Evil is exerting on that rope cannot exceed his own weight (at least not without some mechanism for anchoring him to the ground, which is not indicated in the illustration). Therefore, that thing suspended from the tree is not an anvil, but merely an anvil-shaped piñata.

Have you ever felt my biceps, Mr. Gh0st? I have a chiselled physique from years of tree climbing acrobatics....

I don't care if you're the Governator of Squirrels; if that piñata weighed an ounce more than you, it'd be sitting on the ground and you'd be playing Tarzan on the rope.

It's just simple physics, professor!

[Evil Squirrel]

And, of course, you're being too polite to mention that the force that Evil is exerting on that rope cannot exceed his own weight (at least not without some mechanism for anchoring him to the ground, which is not indicated in the illustration). Therefore, that thing suspended from the tree is not an anvil, but merely an anvil-shaped piñata.

Have you ever felt my biceps, Mr. Gh0st? I have a chiselled physique from years of tree climbing acrobatics....

I don't care if you're the Governator of Squirrels; if that piñata weighed an ounce more than you, it'd be sitting on the ground and you'd be playing Tarzan on the rope.

It's just simple physics, professor!

Maybe that's the problem. I only studied advanced physics....

I wouldn't want to hurt Annie anyway. She called me her homeboy!

[AnnieCamaro]

And, of course, you're being too polite to mention that the force that Evil is exerting on that rope cannot exceed his own weight (at least not without some mechanism for anchoring him to the ground, which is not indicated in the illustration). Therefore, that thing suspended from the tree is not an anvil, but merely an anvil-shaped piñata.

Yes, Mr. Marley. I didn't mention that because I already made fun of Evil Squirrel's wimpy little arms a couple of days ago, and I didn't want to rub it in. I suspect that he exaggerates so much because of a deep-seated (if well-deserved) inferiority complex.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

And, of course, you're being too polite to mention that the force that Evil is exerting on that rope cannot exceed his own weight (at least not without some mechanism for anchoring him to the ground, which is not indicated in the illustration). Therefore, that thing suspended from the tree is not an anvil, but merely an anvil-shaped piñata.

Have you ever felt my biceps, Mr. Gh0st? I have a chiselled physique from years of tree climbing acrobatics....

I don't care if you're the Governator of Squirrels; if that piñata weighed an ounce more than you, it'd be sitting on the ground and you'd be playing Tarzan on the rope.

It's just simple physics, professor!

you will note that the rope is wrapped around the limb, not just tossed over it.

[MarleysGh0st]

Have you ever felt my biceps, Mr. Gh0st? I have a chiselled physique from years of tree climbing acrobatics....

I don't care if you're the Governator of Squirrels; if that piñata weighed an ounce more than you, it'd be sitting on the ground and you'd be playing Tarzan on the rope.

It's just simple physics, professor!

you will note that the rope is wrapped around the limb, not just tossed over it.

Well, yes, I discounted the friction from that single turning of the rope. At best, assuming more turns, the friction might be almost enough to keep the alleged anvil suspended by itself, in which case the force exerted by Evil would be sufficient, as an addition to the friction, to arrest the fall of the object. Nevertheless, since there is no mechanical advantage to those wrappings, I must conclude that Evil did not pull that up into the tree, himself.

But perhaps the Governator had just been walking by.



He was busy inspecting the wildfires yesterday, though.

[ulysses5019]

Excellent drawing, there, Evil.

Yes, I have learned through physics that the force you are exerting on the rope in your paw is equal to the mass of the anvil (since it has no acceleration in its steady state.) I have learned that if you let go of the rope, the anvil will gain acceleration downward at the speed of gravity, or 9.8 meters per second. I have learned how to calculate the time it would take for the anvil to fall to the surface below, but there's no need, because I learned long, long ago to nevernevernever lay down underneath any branch to which you had access.

Even before I began my education, I wasn't stupid.

/:P\

And, of course, you're being too polite to mention that the force that Evil is exerting on that rope cannot exceed his own weight (at least not without some mechanism for anchoring him to the ground, which is not indicated in the illustration). Therefore, that thing suspended from the tree is not an anvil, but merely an anvil-shaped piñata.

An anvil is nothing to SuperSquirrel! I am stronger than a speeding acorn. More powerful than a chorus of Irish cloggers. I am able to leap short shrubs in a single bound. And with my x-ray vision I can see that marley is neither boxers nor briefs.

[ulysses5019]

And since the suitguy walked by, I noticed that someone has invented seersucker thongs.

[kayrharris]

Who needs Harvard or Yale? Just read this thread and you've had your physics lesson.
Of course, now my head hurts!

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

And since the suitguy walked by, I noticed that someone has invented seersucker thongs.

If there was a picture of a squirrel in a seersucker thong, I'm glad I missed it.

[ulysses5019]

And since the suitguy walked by, I noticed that someone has invented seersucker thongs.

If there was a picture of a squirrel in a seersucker thong, I'm glad I missed it.

Don't make me come out there and give you a seersucker wedgie!

[kayrharris]

Thank GOD we don't have xray vision!!!

No offense intended, of course.