World record set for turning off the television! Existing record shattered!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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"Here's our first guest, Kellyanne Conway."

<Click>, in 0.00000000000000000000001 seconds.

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Let's be junior engineers and figure out the actual number. I was standing about four feet away from the TV set. How long did it take for her image to travel from the TV set to my retinas?

(seconds/186,000 miles) x (mile/5,280 ft) x (4 ft) = ?

In RPN, that's 186,000 <1/x> 5280 <divide> 4 <times> (Note to the unwashed: HP calculators running RPN have no equal.)

Survey (or HP 15C calculator) says: 4.07 times ten to the minus nine seconds. Make it 4, as 4.07 is ersatz precision.

Add the reaction time, which is admittedly much bigger, and that's just about how long it took.

Seriously, why the hell do they keep putting her on? Do they think it's going to be different this time?

Another note: I installed an RPN calculator app on every mobile device I could. Try it; you'll like it. I can't do taxes any other way.

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What's 10 to the minus nine seconds? A nanosecond, right? So the speed of light is about one foot per nanosecond? One second, a billion feet? Here we go:

(186,000 miles/second) <enter> (5,280 ft/mile) <times> comes out to 982 million feet per second, so yeah, just about one foot per nanosecond.

I did the calculation in the edited part using Edward Falk's RpnCalc RPN calculator on a Samsung tablet.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. turned mine off 10 years ago, to great relief and daily lifting of spirits!

[rock]

2. Hey, wait a sec!

I turn mine off in -.1 second as so and they say, "And now our next guest." After all, it may be Kellyanne!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Since you have figured out how to reverse time, I have a question for you.

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Do you think you could reset the clock by about, oh, fifteen months, give or take?

[rock]

11. That would be nice!

But unfortunately all I meant by -.1 sec is 1/10 of a second before the guest comes on.

[lindysalsagal]

4. Or, you could pick it up and throw it through a window and beat the record every day!

Sometimes, I'm tempted....

[Turbineguy]

5. That's why my Wife

won't allow me a hand gun. She knows I'll shoot the TV.

[lindysalsagal]

7. Lol.

[doc03]

6. I beleive I beat that record when Shitler is on the tube nt

[kydo]

8. I don't know, orange man and hugh hewitt seem to invoke similar if not worse reactions. n/t

[Yonnie3]

9. I dunno

I use her for my Two Minute Hate, if she's first up.

"Turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic."

It has been a while since I read that book.

[Still In Wisconsin]

10. HP RPN Calculators, hell yes!

Let me take a wild guess: you're an engineer, and went to school in the mid 80's to early 90's.

[William Seger]

13. When I went to school in early 70s, engineering students still carried slide rules on their belts

... but my first job that required a lot of manual calculations, we used HP RPN calculators -- eventually, programmable ones. RPN is by far a superior interface for a calculator because, with algebraic calculators, you have to enter the exact calculation formula, left to right, but with RPN, you can start on either end or in the middle.

[Danascot]

16. I'm looking at an HP 12C

that stays next to my computer. I pretty much use it daily and have for 30 years. What other electronic product is still worth using after 30 years?

It made me a very loyal HP customer ... until I bought an HP printer.

[kimbutgar]

12. The lying cretin is showing in her face her lies are catching up to her.

[Rural_Progressive]

14. Time to roll out this plum from the past

In every way that matters Ms Conjob fulfills the definition of a whore. Watch this compilation of things she had to say about dRump when she was Rubio's campaign chairperson.

[hunter]

15. No cable, no satellite, no broadcast television in our house.

Our television plays DVDs and Netflix. That's all it does.

Our inexpensive DSL connection is fast enough for a single standard quality Netflix stream.

Life is peaceful here.

If you like RPN calculators, you might enjoy Forth.