By missca - 16/12/2014 04:35 - Australia - Salisbury
kyleengelhardt
Followed
Followers
Badges
Comments
Visits
Favorites
About Kyleengelhardt
Not specifiedKyleengelhardt - Followers
Kyleengelhardt - Followed
Kyleengelhardt's page visits
Hugged!
Kyleengelhardt's FML badges
Profile completed
You’ve filled out the necessary details. Having done so will be much appreciated.
50 favorites
Love knows no boundaries. You’ve already added 50 FMLs to your favourites list!
Mobility
You are connected to FML via the mobile site or an app. How modern.
The return of the thumb
You have thumbed 5000 comments.
The thumb strikes back
You have left your thumbprint on 2500 comments.
I agree, my mouse works.
200 "I agree" votes is a good start.
YDI Master
You made your 500th "You deserved it" vote.
Judgmental
You have voted "You deserved it" over 100 times.
A new thumb
You’ve used your thumb on 1000 comments.
100 kick-ass comments
100 of your comments are neither buried or moderated. Popular is your middle name!
One more and it's business time
You've received 68 Hugs on your profile. Kinky.
Kyleengelhardt's favorite FMLs
missca_fml tells us more.
Congratulations!
By jennabee97 - 08/11/2014 23:02 - Canada - Ottawa
By pootie - 11/12/2013 13:14 - United States - Miami
By karmaaa - 16/10/2014 20:56 - United States - Huxley
By GallowsHumor - 15/09/2014 20:28 - Finland
GallowsHumor tells us more.
Hi, I'm the OP. I realized I was reading my own FML and thus created this account. To elaborate the story, these estimations are called Fermi problems and they're designed to teach dimensional analysis and approximation. They're typical in physics and engineering education and mine is a mix of both. The gerbil-sun is actually an approximation presented by Dr. Larry Weinstein - a physics professor and co-author of 'Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problem's on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin'. I believe the title should speak for itself... *sigh*... and that is exactly how it felt to be on the lecture. It is not that I think that learning to approximate is something to be scoffed at, per se. Indeed, it is skill that all experimental scientists and other people alike do need and find useful - often in basic, everyday life. However this was the third lecture in the series and they all have gone more or less within the realm of vagueness, "hip" examples and little to grasp for the inevitable physics homework that doesn't solve itself. On a related note, my lecture-mates also eagerly discussed the approximate number of piano tuners in Finland (in the original problem the place is Chicago) and at which height Felix Baumgartner might have broken the sound barrier during his sky-dive from the altitude of 39 kilometers (estimate). As this endless drone went on and on, I sat there, bored out of my mind, desperately wondering if and when the tune of the lecture(s) would change and how the heck would I utilize this in the homework, most of which requires some actual and exact calculation, not just some half-baked estimates. Thus the FML. P.S. There's actually a short article in thepointnews.com about Weinstein and his gerbil-sun, and I must say it was way more interesting (not to mention less time-consuming) a read than listening my class drone on and on about it and the other Fermi problems for 90 minutes straight.
Hey all I'm the OP, in hindsight I should have put that my Nan recently passed away, it was a couple of days earlier, and the website insists all FMLs are started with "today". Rest assured I didn't simply find out my Nan died and proceed to have sex!