top o' the mornin'® 6/10/2014

[earendel]

Well, I have what it takes to survive on the moon.

We just completed our quarterly office training and "teambuilding exercise." The exercise assumed that our team had crash landed on the moon and we had 15 items that had survived the crash. We were supposed to rank the items in order of importance for survival. Then we compared our ranking to that compiled by a team of experts from NASA. Our group did the best overall, thanks to me, because I had the best individual ranking. The items included things like a compass, a raft, a parachute, matches, an FM receiver/transmitter, food, water, a map, 2 .45 caliber pistols, flares, and dehydrated milk.

[mrkelley23]

Funny. I used that lesson some 25 years ago as one of my first icebreakers for my first AP Physics class. Did you find NASA's explanation page for the answers?

[earendel]

Funny. I used that lesson some 25 years ago as one of my first icebreakers for my first AP Physics class. Did you find NASA's explanation page for the answers?

The "solution page" had some sort of explanations.

Spoiler

For instance the raft was ranked higher than the compass because the carbon dioxide canisters that inflated the raft could be used for propulsion and the compass was virtually useless because there is no magnetic field on the moon.

Some of the items were easy to figure out and some seemed like a judgment call.

[Bob Juch]

Well, I have what it takes to survive on the moon.

We just completed our quarterly office training and "teambuilding exercise." The exercise assumed that our team had crash landed on the moon and we had 15 items that had survived the crash. We were supposed to rank the items in order of importance for survival. Then we compared our ranking to that compiled by a team of experts from NASA. Our group did the best overall, thanks to me, because I had the best individual ranking. The items included things like a compass, a raft, a parachute, matches, an FM receiver/transmitter, food, water, a map, 2 .45 caliber pistols, flares, and dehydrated milk.

The compass, raft, parachute, matches and flares won't be useful for their intended purposes but their materials might.