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@xelan8549 Says:
I would probably disappear in a mushroom cloud, the size of which largely depends on wether or not my atoms get smooshed together hard enough by the shrinking process to just achieve fusion or simply vaporize due to heat...
@VOID-0-l4b Says:
That's why ant man is so strong in ant form🤯
@blanktheunknown2735 Says:
So a child can jump as high as an adult?
@mijnmanisklusser Says:
I just can't lose the idea of shrinking to this size. If i am correct the atoms that make up my body will be shrunken and the amount of atoms would stay the same in that regard. If this is the case then i don't think my lungs could take up oxygen molecules from the atmosphere, and even if they did my metabolism would not be able to use it anyway. I would be dead in 3 -5 minutes and escaping would be the last of my concerns😂
@ced1106 Says:
Are they still asking these dumb questions in interviews?
I want to know how you accomplished something **related to this job** including factors about the business and company you were in which hindered your progress. Part of answering this question is determining how much research you did about this company before I interviewed you.
@tovarishche. Says:
Small animals are op
@g1expert102 Says:
Just jump doesn't sit right with me either.
Its a basic solution for a basic problem. I don't like working on basic problems.
I like solutions that are fundamentally robust.
Like decentralized Blockchains
@saegemehlfee Says:
When introverted thinkers are left to it unchecked...
@Krishna-s3l Says:
Why the boy is looking like ai 😭😭 6:14
@miaouille Says:
C'est une question pour un biologiste. Les petits prédateurs sont élancés, et les rongeurs sont "recroquevillés". De plus leur mode de déplacement est sur 4 pattes, alors que nous sommes des bipèdes. Par conséquent je ne suis pas convaincu qu'il suffit de sauter si l'on est miniaturisé. Il faut demander à des spécialistes du monde animal si c'est possible et qu'est-ce qu'il faudrait qu'il se passe sur le plan biologique pour que cela devienne possible.
@BolverkrLimited Says:
I would shove my hand/arm into the rotor to prevent it from spinning. After it is ripped from my body, i would use what's left of my shredded shirt to tournicate and prevent myself from bleeding out. To answer your follow-up question... my left arm.
@TheRantyRider Says:
While I had worked out jumping was the answer, after thinking climb up via the handle if it were hollow. Now the 'but' - a human shrunk that small would just rip themselves apart as the muscle volume and strength would overwhelm the bone and tendon strength. Look at an ant and an elephant and the difference in the ratio of the bodies to the legs. An ant would not be able to support it's own weight if it were the size of an elephant.
There is also a point to make about how high something jumps. It is not the highest point of the animal that is important but the centre of mass. The head of the horse is probably higher than that of the dog but the centre of mass is probably about the same.
@redavatar Says:
I got asked stupid questions like this for a job as graphic designer. I simply bounced the question back saying there is insufficient information - in this example I'd ask how far do the blades reach, at what speed does it turn on, etc. and even if I knew all these, it would take an expert to calculate the physics and I'm a graphic designer ffs, not a phycisist.
The goal of these questions is to see how your brain works but the problem is that people in HR are often far dumber than the people they're supposed to hire so they think certain questions are clever when in fact they're really really stupid & pointless and when a candidate responds negatively to these questions they often see this as a bad sign instead of someone realising how dumb these questions are.
There's plenty of questions that anyone with an analytical mind could solve properly without needing tons of data that is not provided. And no, I don't mean lame riddles which are often a case of "I've heard this one before".
And worse: if you give a really clever answer, most of the time HR will not like it either because, wahey, they don't like "smart people" because they're harder to control.
Basically, job interviews are a tactical game where you have to give the answers they'll want to hear - don't be too clever, don't say too much, just say what you believe they want from you and nothing more. Even then most HR folks hire based on looks & behaviour, not knowledge or skills.
@frankcabanski9409 Says:
I'd teleport out. If I can be shrunk down to the size of a nickel, then it's not far fetched that I can teleport.
@frankcabanski9409 Says:
You can't just jump. As asked in interviews, there was a stipulation that you retained your full mass.
@bitzzyyan Says:
i don't understand, i was so interested, why have a clickbait thumbnail? none of the answers to pick from are the actual answer.. this makes me feel just used for clicks and maybe i'll stick around - no i want genuine content creators. This seems to be another product of our almighty private equity :/
@mrpicky1868 Says:
material stress on your legs in shrunken form is actually smaller. and nobody said you need to reach high G in jumping
@PropertyRide Says:
Here is the solution, I would just dislodge the blender blades because they are clipped on easily and removed easily. They are removable to be cleaned easily.
@JohnCol-1959 Says:
but the lid is on the blender, you won't jump through that
@GSgazisafin Says:
What about burst strength? The legs can't extend add far, how faster can the muscles accelerate?
@anas.t.h Says:
I love how everybody was thinking about the physics and the mechanics, and meanwhile the human physiology just humbled everybody
@mariusd5913 Says:
If you become that technical about the physics of your size you should also become that technical about the fluid dynamics on your size and the neurology on your size and recognize that blood will not flow and your brain will not work. You will be dead, so the real answer is that it does not matter.
@asmangaming1516 Says:
Use the air vortex to get out
@DrEpicGTM Says:
Love the Mark Rober squirrel clips by the way!
@markdebreet4173 Says:
Jump out off the blender is 1 thing, but what about falling down inclusive the extra part of the blender. In total the distance from the edge of the blander to the floor is about twice as much. Could you survive that fall???
@tommroy Says:
Silly rabbits, there is no blender...
@DevdeepRakshit Says:
Start praying to God 🙏🏻
@StarNightRZ Says:
Even if you could hypothetically jump out of the blender, wouldn’t your legs just break upon landing?
@SuvikshaC.G Says:
A
@nayeftabbah7603 Says:
If you are shrunken that much you become so dense that you will puncture through the bottom of the blinder
@Nrdy007 Says:
0:58
@TheMikeF1 Says:
Even if you jump high enough to get out, you'd fall right back in.
@RogierYou Says:
All the talk and thinking is useless when there are only 4 multiple choice answers and no one to discuss it with.
@KivahSounds Says:
Yeah definitely overthinking it.
The question isn't what will happen, it's what will you do.
The answer is either,
you are trying to get out,
Or you give up without trying.
I'm sure we will try to climb, jump, tumble, unscrew the glass from the base, etc.
The only physiological insight is if you try or give up
@scottandrewhutchins Says:
In the Doctor Who serial Planet of Giants, when the main characters are shrunk, no normal size person can hear what they're saying. I wrote an unauthorized screen adaptation of Monster in My Pcoket when I was in college, and I had no idea and never took it into account in writing the script.
@itsverygreen532 Says:
Mmm ... the whole point is pretty much everything can jump 0.5m ... roaches to cats to elephants ... some things are better (grass hoppers) some are worse ... but in general, regardless of size, everything can jump half a metre.
@notimetolive12 Says:
Is this just me who got so pissed by Google after they revealed that it is not about figuring the right answer? I don't know why I got so disappointed by them after that.
@vn8232 Says:
Damn. I've known about the same jumping height for a very long time. But it didn't pop into my mind here. Dang!
@LuizBarrosPoa Says:
EASY! You must poop on the blades and glass, smear that poop all over the mechanism! Whatever vitamin or juice the blade owner wanted to do is now ruined! So he (or she) will have to open and clean everything.
@pr1m3number5 Says:
Would you still have the same mass or no? Cuz then I would just jump or like run against the walls and it would fall
@michaelotto8696 Says:
Actual RPM is not that high? Guess again Derek. Blender speeds range usually between 10,000 to 30,000 RPM. Sure, some have slower bottom ends but you're still no slower than 4,000. You'd be launched from the center in a millisecond. Splat!
@sweetreggaemusic5479 Says:
For those of you who like to read the comments first.
Spoiler Alert below:
It is just a brain teasing question. There isn't a right or wrong answer.
There, i saved 20 mins of your life, I'm sure one day, you will return the favor 😂
@Opti_Mart Says:
The blades don't fill the entire width of the blender get out to the side the blade won't hit me, then I will probably be sweaty from the fear of a spinning blade infront of me thats 4 times my size, then I can climb up the wall backwards (Assuming I'm wearing rubber bottomed shoes.)
@davidwergin5665 Says:
I would realize I am in a bad dream, not reality; so the sooner I confront the blades the sooner the nightmare will end and I will wake to deal with actual problems.
@IonCasu-fw3ro Says:
From the statemt of the problem I'd ask what's my objective.
@massomouse1556 Says:
Well I definitely have the creativity part.
My answer was (d), but not give up, varying that to wait. Especially knowing I might only have about a 15 - 20cm verticle jump ceiling, owing to spatial reasoning and motor coordination issues from a brain injury, I would opt to wail until the blades are about to start and jump of the flats of them and attempt to use centrifugal force, assuming that even comes into play, to both, possibly, give me a couple extra cms of height and displace me toward the wall so if the cyclone of air the blades created added enough height and pushed me enough over, I could catch the top of the wall/edge of the pitcher and climb up and over the wall.
@musicman1770 Says:
Jumping from the blade section could possibly give you better spring as well.
@SeppoVataja Says:
The issue I see is you have to jump up but not land back in the blender.
@kaiserdomato Says:
I'd just grow again to my normal size seems easier
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