“Would you rather fight 10 duck-sized Ryan Newmans or 1 Ryan Newman-sized duck?” | Mark Martin AMA

Saron81 said:

When I was about 10 years old, I wrote to all my favorite NASCAR drivers. Mark was the only one to respond, sending me autographed pictures that I still have today. He's the man. 

This is super cool. Can you post the letter?

tuna55 said:

Saron81 said:

When I was about 10 years old, I wrote to all my favorite NASCAR drivers. Mark was the only one to respond, sending me autographed pictures that I still have today. He's the man. 

This is super cool. Can you post the letter?

I'll have to do some digging... I just moved... but I think I know where it is. I'll look over the weekend! 

David S. Wallens said:

In reply to Woody (Forum Supportum) :

But then do you have one or two lasagnas? 

If you stack an infinite amount of lasagnas, you still only have one lasagna. I believe I learned this in Calc3.

Tutti...............Nonna  will point out that Lasagna has components; which have a distinct top and bottom layer. Stacking them up is akin to staking three Ferraris on top of each other and calling it one giant Ferrari...................it disturbs me that you all didn't know this..............what kind of households were you raised in? 

Has for the duck debate..............it matters not because either way you can throw two loaves of bread on the ground, said duck(s) will be distracted long enough for you to load up the shot gun and call all your friends over for a duck roast.    

This is just the square-cube law as it applies to biomechanics. Ten Ryan Newmans proportionally scaled down to duck size would probably make you cry fowl, while proportionally scaling an aquatic bird up to Ryan Newman size would make it a sitting duck.

Paul_VR6 (Forum Supporter) said:

David S. Wallens said:

In reply to Woody (Forum Supportum) :

But then do you have one or two lasagnas? 

If you stack an infinite amount of lasagnas, you still only have one lasagna. I believe I learned this in Calc3.

I think that this is all dependent upon whether or not the lasagnas are cooked before you begin.

Once cooked, lasagna has definitive top and bottom layers. Whereas, an uncooked lasagna is more freeform and conceptual. 

If you stack one cooked lasagna upon another, you have just that: two stacked lasagnas.

But if you place an uncooked lasagna upon another uncooked lasagna, you simply have a continuation of the original lasagna, albeit one that is destined to have an unreasonably crusty top layer, and a cold, undercooked center. It's what food scientists refer to as the Inverse McDLT Phenomenon.

Mark signed a cap for me at Sonoma in 94, my first NASCAR race.

For reference, Newman is 5'10" and 200lbs.

Martin is about 5'6" and 150lbs.

Id take the huge, dumb duck instead of tiny Newmans Because others have already done this math, and with a Purdue engineering degree, Newman isn't exactly a dummy.

The real question is how did Mark answer these critical questions?

In reply to STM317 :

Ashamed I spent 5 minutes googling duck density before scrolling down to this comment. Well done.