It was really enjoyable to go around and visit the different Monster Lobes in our EDMA server. I was impressed with the work on the dam. I had to go back in and play with it a little bit and see what happened when the switch was flipped. I am impressed.
Class Monday night stretched my memory in trying to remember inertia and momentum. After remembering, I enjoyed finding the momentum of the monster lobe. I find it so fun to do unit conversions. In my mind, the more conversions the better. I think I am sick in the head a bit.
As for solutions to the problem. I have thought of building a wall. I know it would be huge. But, it wouldn't just be a flat wall. It would be kind of curved, so the lobe could still move a little as it was slowing down to stop.
I also have thought about making a bridge for the road and the pipeline so they could go over the spot where the monster lobe would meet them. This posed a problem in that I wasn't sure how to fortify the braces/legs/supports of the bridge for when the monster lobe hit it. Until I saw the avalanche guards for the power lines. That could maybe work. Then, I wondered about making the pipeline flow uphill, but I imagine that it must flow uphill in some areas, so the engineers probably already know how to do that. Plus, if it has enough energy, flowing uphill for a little will not be a problem. Another idea is to build a tunnel over the road and the pipeline so that the monster lobe can flow over them.
(Then as I was driving my children home from school today, I thought - oh shoot, why did I not post my reflection yesterday when I was looking back on my timeline?" - I should probably tell myself the deadline is back to the original 5:00 pm on Tuesday)
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