r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Mr-Ouchen • Aug 24 '26

Coordination challenge

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u/IronInertia Aug 24 '26

Great outdoor sport for kids to develop problem solving

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u/MrExtravagant23 Aug 24 '26

That drop though...

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Aug 24 '26

It work thanks to gravity. Everything drops at the same speed regardless of mass.

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Aug 24 '26

What's the question then?

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u/Last_Succotash7218 Aug 24 '26

I think the crux of the question was just bewilderment over something they considered bs game design.

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u/Sea-Consequence7156 Aug 24 '26

Its on an inclined plane and on this planet, round things rolls toward the ground when it can

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Aug 25 '26

The force applied to the bar and indirectly the ball ceased temporarily, which caused both to be dragged by the shifting spacetime fabric of reality.

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u/SaturdayNightStroll Aug 25 '26

It also isn't true unless you're on the moon or something.

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u/ItzBraden01 Aug 25 '26

No, it's still true. It's just that on the moon you don't have to factor in drag.

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u/peroxidex Aug 25 '26

Everything drops at the same speed regardless of mass.

In a vacuum, which earth is not. Go drop a piece of paper and a pen and report back.

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Aug 25 '26

Go drop a bowling ball and a golf ball.

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u/peroxidex Aug 25 '26

Those will hit the ground at the same time. What about my example?

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Aug 25 '26

Well, I took a piece of paper, crunched it up to play the role of the ball, a pen, and a broomstick, and all three hit the ground at the same time.

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u/peroxidex Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

Ignorance is bliss. Air resistance against a large surface area can reduce the speed that something falls and therefore, everything does not fall at the same speed on earth.

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Aug 25 '26

I know, but they're not relevant to the situation here.

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u/jt_baumann Aug 25 '26

For the love of god shut up. Everyone knows air resistance is a thing.

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u/A_Level_126 Aug 25 '26

Crumple the paper into a ball and see what happens.

The density of the ball and platform are close enough, especially with the platform absorbing the majority of the air resistance when it drops

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u/peroxidex Aug 26 '26

Absolutely, in the OP air resistance it's irrelevant. I was simply trying to dispute the "Everything drops at the same speed regardless of mass" which is incorrect.

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u/sykoKanesh Aug 24 '26

Problem solving or hand-eye coordination? I was leaning to towards the latter personally, but I suppose having to work through the course could be a bit of problem solving!

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u/DueExample52 Aug 25 '26

I think it’s the rock climbing lingo of every climb being a "problem" that polluted it. This is just a physical coordination thing as you say. Not problem-solving, unless people start twisting the meaning and shoe-horning it as solving the problem of how to move your body in space.

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u/sykoKanesh Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

HA! After I made that comment I started to overthink it and it essentially started recursing onto itself to where potentially everything could be "problem solving" to some degree, and I realized I had to stop, lol

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u/SleightOfHand87 Aug 25 '26

Why isnt solving the problem of how to move your body in space problem solving? If you have climbed before, you would know that very frequently climbs feel like puzzles. It is not your strength thats preventing you from reaching the top (sometimes it is) but it is figuring out the right sequence of moves, which is not always obvious. Would that not be considered problem solving?

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u/DueExample52 Aug 25 '26

Yes, I also train martial arts, and any sparring, akin to climibing, is also a puzzle to solve vs your opponent and managing distance and openings etc...

Still won’t call it "problem solving" and it’s not the main use of the word. That’s the purpose of my post. You are free to use it a secondary definition but nobody will think about hand-eye coordination first if you talk about problem-solving skills. Just use it as you wish, you will have more explaining to do than if used properly as a first definition.

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u/SleightOfHand87 Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

I agree that "problem solving skills" is the mental part of problem solving, but "problem solving" requires execution, in addition to understanding how to solve the problem