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O.T. puzzling for me!

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Jiles

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This may be old to some of you but I have never seen it. I was shown this a few days ago and I cannot figure why this happens. There has got to be a simple answer that I am not seeing. The person that showed me didn't know either.
Stand a canned drink on the edge of a table. On the floor, lay the same size can on it's side. Take a measurment from the top of the can standing on the table top to the side(higest point) of the can laying on it side on the floor.
Now reverse the cans, table top with can on side and floor with can standing up and take a second measurment.
You will get two different measurments.
 
Floor to table, plus height of can, minus width of can.
Floor to table, plus width of can, minus height of can. Much smaller.
Of course they are different.
 
One would think the measurements would be the same since you're adding what you take away and vice-versa but not true.

But by standing the bottom one up and lying the top one down you're actually shortening the distance between their highest points.
 
I wondered at first, but if you rethink it you will feel kinda like. daaaahhhh!!!

That is a good one, Probably will catch 90% off guard. I have a blonde friend that I can't wait to try this on.
 
MY DADDY Always said figures don't lie BUT
liers know how to figure!
Don't mean any offence to anyone just what he said.
Ralph
 
Just got my son & grandson with this one! Now they'll be doin the yard work today and I'll be keepin the TV warm and the couch held down this afternoon!....thanks for the day off...
 
That's a great example of something that initially seems obvious, but isn't.

Here's another: make a setup with a valve and a couple of nipples so you can connect two balloons together. With the valve closed, blow the balloons up, making sure one is larger than the other.

So the question is: What happens when the valve is opened? The size of the balloons equalizes, right? Wrong! It turns out that the larger balloon has LESS pressure in it than the smaller one. The big balloon will get bigger and the small balloon smaller.
 
2nd arrow is shorter.

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