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Cute pun on “spoiler” (normally a sort of horizontal fin on the back of a race car).
It’s probably more than an incidental pun, in that the character is aware of the double meaning and trying to capitalize on it. (Thought I don’t see how it will help him in the race.) The written contents of the banner are a spoiler in the sense of giving away a secret or trick development in a story. And that therefore it should be legal to carry that mounted on the car, since the rules allow for a car to carry a spoiler, in the sense of an airflow guide — the horizontal fin mentioned by Ed, and shown on the other two cars in the cartoon.
I’m unsure of the electric technicalities used in the Reality Check. The light bulb seems to be broken (or never designed to work?). Which would make its resistance (whose unit is the ohm) something infinite, or undefined — reciprocal of the conductance, which is zero.
Mitch4: Resistance is futile.
Mitch4: I was thinking that as well. A burned out bulb will have MANY ohms, not none, but 1) This is a cartoon and a simple play on electrical terms so who cares? and 2) the filament appears to be intact, so perhaps this is a superconducting bulb with no ohms and therefore won’t light.
I had a physics professor say the physical property with the largest range is resistance. I don’t know how true that is, but it makes sense. You can go from 0 in some materials to effectively infinite.
Mitch4,
The picture of the bulb does no look burnt out. Maybe he’s just a little short. 😉
Zbicyclist: Resistance Is feudal.
@TedD: There are some properties that go below zero but very few that can reach infinity. It’s a fair assessment.
Mitch4: You are correct — that bulb is too tall to be ohmless. Now if only the cartoonist would have made it short…
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Cute pun on “spoiler” (normally a sort of horizontal fin on the back of a race car).
It’s probably more than an incidental pun, in that the character is aware of the double meaning and trying to capitalize on it. (Thought I don’t see how it will help him in the race.) The written contents of the banner are a spoiler in the sense of giving away a secret or trick development in a story. And that therefore it should be legal to carry that mounted on the car, since the rules allow for a car to carry a spoiler, in the sense of an airflow guide — the horizontal fin mentioned by Ed, and shown on the other two cars in the cartoon.
I’m unsure of the electric technicalities used in the Reality Check. The light bulb seems to be broken (or never designed to work?). Which would make its resistance (whose unit is the ohm) something infinite, or undefined — reciprocal of the conductance, which is zero.
Mitch4: Resistance is futile.
Mitch4: I was thinking that as well. A burned out bulb will have MANY ohms, not none, but 1) This is a cartoon and a simple play on electrical terms so who cares? and 2) the filament appears to be intact, so perhaps this is a superconducting bulb with no ohms and therefore won’t light.
I had a physics professor say the physical property with the largest range is resistance. I don’t know how true that is, but it makes sense. You can go from 0 in some materials to effectively infinite.
Mitch4,
The picture of the bulb does no look burnt out. Maybe he’s just a little short. 😉
Zbicyclist: Resistance Is feudal.
@TedD: There are some properties that go below zero but very few that can reach infinity. It’s a fair assessment.
Mitch4: You are correct — that bulb is too tall to be ohmless. Now if only the cartoonist would have made it short…