They Don't Make Them Any More Stupid....we checked....

Raff* Sink...Asshat extraordinaire

This is one of Raff*'s latest rants....

Raff* stole one of my photos and decided to add his expert comments. The upper comment only states the obvious, that Mary Moorman missed centering the limo in her lens. The orange dot shows where Moorman's lens was pointed. Early model Polaroid cameras had a mechanical shutter. There is a delay between pushing the button and the picture being taken. Mary Moorman could have very well had the limo centered in her viewfinder, but the delay between pushing the button and the picture being taken could have been enough to allow the limo to move further down the street....further down hill. That's the key.

The lower comment is our focus....

Raff* shows his ignorance by thinking the slope of the bottom of the car body is relative to the bottom of the printed picture based on the person taking the picture being perpendicular to the car. .

It isn't.

Raff* bases his claim on still shots from the Zapruder film like this one. (For the sake of rebuttal, we will assume Raff*'s correct).

Raff is insistent that Mary Moorman was standing perpendicular to the limo based on the photo above. He refuses to produce the math to prove it. He'll be quick to throw up some sketches from one of his starvation farm clients, the famous Fizzicist* Serg*. (Serg* was a guest trying to starve a mole off his face, who bonded great with Raff*, until Raff* tried to put the move on him by tossin" the movie Deliverence in the DVD player and waiting for the "purty mouth" scene".Let us just say that Raff*'s lust remained unrequited.)

Here's the Fizzicist*'s rendering....

In "physics display".....Raff* is an idiot.

Serg*'s little diagram doesn't reflect what was taking place in the Moorman photo. His diagram is based on the relationship between a hypothetical person standing at the same elevation as a particular point along the bottom line of his boxed object (we can only assume he means the bottom trim of the car body).

And...

And....

Let's dumb things down for Raff*. Let's use simple trigonometry to show the effect of a 3 degree slope and how it will affect an object.

Pay attention Raff*.....

Get your calculator out Raff* and let's determine the effect of a 3 degree slope.

Punch in 3 then find the tangent button and punch it. The tangent function describes the relation ship between the side opposite and adjacent to the 3 degree angle.

The tangent of a 3 degree angle is 0.052407779. This relationship is the same regardless of the length of the adjacent side.

So Raff* will understand, I'll explain it like this.....

And if we take Mary Moorman's photo and level things up, we see the front of the car is lower than the rear.

Quit while you're behind Raff*....