Quote:
|
Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen
We didn't really stumble.
I at least expected more intelligence from the booleans and thought the real question was whether a beam reflected back in the direction it came from, as seen by the moving ship, would actually come back in the original direction, which Eroica answered.
|
Ah yes, that explains Eroica's post. 180 degree reflection was the simple intent for that statement, else the Booleans might not see their beam even if it did hit the ship. Fortunately, since the beam never hits the prisms, we don't have to answer the question I didn't ask.  [This question was not meant to be hard since Ken's Booleans question is about 300 posts long, and still going. ]
Here was the "non-calculator" approach to it, fwiw.
__________________
Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.
"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.
|