Year: 2000

OK. So here’s the answer to the question which I posed last Wednesday and which you can read in the archive. Person #1 should shoot straight up in the air and not at anyone. His best chance of "survival" is to be the first shooter in a two man fight. Consider the alternatives: if he…

Suppose there are 3 roommates in a deadly shootout situation. We’ll say they’re using water guns (the new and improved Super Soaker 9999) and the worst that can happen is that they get drenched, in which case they’re “dead”. Roommate #1 gets to shoot first, but only hits his target 33% of the time. Roommate…

It was frightening I tell you – frightening! It all started this morning at a most crazily early hour of the morning when I was taken into their sterile clinic and forced to remain seated for the interrogation. “Did I do this? Did I do that? Why not?” So may questions, yet allowing almost no…