Date:         Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:51:03 -0800
Reply-To:     Angus Gordon <birdworks@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Angus Gordon <birdworks@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: is anyone going to roast a turkey in the van?
Comments: To: Richard A Jones <Jones@colorado.edu>
In-Reply-To:  <4B0FEC64.9050606@colorado.edu>
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>   Let the kinetic energy of the Vanagon be transfered
> to a turkey hanging on a string...



...marinate first using Dex-Cool, baste with Mobil1...



Angus Gordon
Bainbridge Island WA

birdworks@gmail.com




On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Richard A Jones <Jones@colorado.edu> wrote:

> About 30 years ago the Journal of Irreproducible Results
> (http://www.jir.com/home.html) had a wonderful report of
> a college physics lab exercise--cooking a turkey by the
> transformation of kinetic energy to thermal energy.
>
> The students were to measure how long to cook the turkey
> by running it up a 10 story college building and dropping
> it out the window.  At the pavement, the kinetic energy
> is tranformed to thermal, and voila!, the turkey cooks--
> a little bit.  How many trips are needed?
>
> Well, the Vanagon is a perfect vehicle++ to adapt this method
> to.  Let the kinetic energy of the Vanagon be transfered
> to a turkey hanging on a string.  In giving the Vanagon's
> energy to the turkey, some is transformed to thermal and
> the turkey starts to cook.
>
> "Over the river and through the woods...." is probably about
> far enough to repeat the above transfer scenario to cook
> the turkey for Grandma.
>
> ++A more modern vehicle such as a Porsche Cayenne, travelling
> above 125 miles per hour (200 km per hour) could transfer much
> more energy in a single hit to the turkey, but would probably
> introduce undesired side effects such as the pulverization of
> the bird.  Plus, no Porsche owner would think of getting a
> smudge on the front of his car.
>
> I waited until today to post this--after all the turkeys were
> cooked--because I didn't want anybody to get hurt....   ;-)
>
> Richard
>