{"id":3517,"date":"2016-10-02T21:13:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T21:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2016-10-02T21:16:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T21:16:46","slug":"the-washing-machine-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2016\/10\/02\/the-washing-machine-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washing Machine Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday, I read a report\u00a0that indicated that Samsung branded washing machines may explode<\/a>. I sat down for lunch next to Nathan, who had his headphones in and was working on statistics homework. I didn\u2019t say anything. A few minutes later, Thomas sat down, and the washing machine incident was the first thing I told him. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSamsung has had it rough this week,\u201d he told me.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYes, yes, I know the phone thing, but washing machines<\/i>.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The main difference, we decided, was the method in which the devices were used. You lift a phone up to your face, but you don\u2019t life a washing machine up to your face. Thomas smiled, \u201cI bet the world\u2019s strongest man<\/a> could lift up a washing machine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I told him that the world\u2019s second and third strongest men could lift up the washing machine. He said that was besides the point and I looped back to the fact that the 127th and 128th strongest men in the world could lift up a washing machine. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact,\u201d I said, \u201cthe world\u2019s strongest man could probably lift up two <\/i>washing machines.\u201d We played off of each other until we came to a scenario that we most assuredly disagreed on. Imagine that the world\u2019s strongest man was standing in between two washing machines. Each machine has wet clothes in it \u2014 the loads had been approximately 75% full, a mixture of random clothes, and had finished the cycle within\u00a0the last five minutes. If the world\u2019s strongest man were to stick each arm through the open door and curl his arms (and the washing machines) upward, so the loading area was facing directly downwards, would some of the clothes fall out? <\/span><\/p>\n

In our opposite opinions, we both believed we were right. I argued that at least a sock would fall out and Thomas failed to convince me that the clothes would be stuck to the side. Nathan looked up once with a confused expression on his face, \u201cWhat are you guys talking about?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

We continued to bicker until I left for work and Nathan left for lab. It probably would\u2019ve ended there, had Nathan not gotten involved, but with a goodbye of, \u201cThomas, you\u2019re an idiot,\u201d he ensured that we would both attempt to find people to agree with us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people came up with a split second answer. In fact, Chili was one of the only people who took the question seriously, saying: \u201cDepends on whether or not the washers ran a spin cycle or not\u2026 A \u2018full\u2019 load of dry clothing is brought down to half of that after getting compressed in a spin cycle, so if the washers did have this cycle then there would be more than enough room for clothes to fall out though the center!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The current statistics rest at this \u2014
\n<\/span>Will fall: 8
\n<\/span>Won\u2019t fall: 2
\n<\/span>There\u2019s a 50\/50 chance: 1
\n<\/span>\u201cYou and Thomas are both ridiculous, this isn\u2019t important at all.\u201d: 2<\/span><\/p>\n

Please submit your opinions to <\/i>trgraham@pugetsound.edu<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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