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Okay, let me try my hand at this. It may be too easy for some of you, but here goes.
You are traveling west in a hot air balloon, you lay down a map on a small table in the gondola to check your course, if you let go of the map, which direction would the wind take it?
Jim
You are traveling west in a hot air balloon, you lay down a map on a small table in the gondola to check your course, if you let go of the map, which direction would the wind take it?
Jim
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Okay, let me try my hand at this. It may be too easy for some of you, but here goes.
You are traveling west in a hot air balloon, you lay down a map on a small table in the gondola to check your course, if you let go of the map, which direction would the wind take it?
Jim
You are traveling west in a hot air balloon, you lay down a map on a small table in the gondola to check your course, if you let go of the map, which direction would the wind take it?
Jim
BTW, it is pretty hard to travel West in a hot air balloon here in So Cal.
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I knew it would be too easy for some of you. The correct answer, or the answer given when I first read it, was that it would not travel anywhere since you are traveling with the wind. However, your explanation has merit, and seems logical to me. Except for the consumed by the torch part. Since the torch is much higher up than a table would be in the gondola, I doubt it would consume the map. Unless of course, the wind blew the map up into it, but we have already established the fact that it would blow it west. And why wouldn't you be able to travel west in So Cal? haven't you heard of the Santa Anas? 
Jim
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Morning SoCal!
Man glad I wasn't here last night...you guys would have made me THINK!...and I don't THINK after work as I'm done...I have to THINK all darn day at work and it wears me out...who wantst to THINK at night!!!...LOL...
Well Friday is here!...although my weekend home is short since I'll be headed back to SoCal early Sunday...and the temps here in NE Indiana look to be pretty cold tomorrow...oh well...it IS February!
Have a great day everyone...!
Joe.
Man glad I wasn't here last night...you guys would have made me THINK!...and I don't THINK after work as I'm done...I have to THINK all darn day at work and it wears me out...who wantst to THINK at night!!!...LOL...
Well Friday is here!...although my weekend home is short since I'll be headed back to SoCal early Sunday...and the temps here in NE Indiana look to be pretty cold tomorrow...oh well...it IS February!
Have a great day everyone...!
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