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UPenn Professor Solving DiffEQ on Scratchpad Causes Plane to Return to Gate

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday May 08 2016, @11:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

This just in from the front lines of the War on the Unusual:

University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio was solving a set of differential equations on a plane departing the Philadelphia airport when the woman next to him surreptitiously passed a note to a flight attendant telling them she thought he was a terrorist because of the strange things he was writing on a pad of paper. The plane returned to the gate where he was questioned. At least this time the pilot had enough sense not to kick him off the flight.

Remember folks, if you see something say something!

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Appalbarry on Monday May 09 2016, @12:25AM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Monday May 09 2016, @12:25AM (#343360) Journal

    Henceforth, whenever you see someone on a plane with a Bible or crucifix, take the flight attendant aside and whisper that you think they're Christian fundamentalists, and you're worried that their planning to fire-bomb an abortion clinic.

    Especially since you saw them praying before take-off.

    Then there are the Pastafarians....

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  • (Score: 2) by Dunbal on Monday May 09 2016, @12:28AM

    by Dunbal (3515) on Monday May 09 2016, @12:28AM (#343363)

    Hey the worse a Pastafarian will get you is slightly bloated after a very good meal.

    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday May 09 2016, @07:36AM

      by mhajicek (51) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 09 2016, @07:36AM (#343490)

      I'm gluten intolerant.

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      The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek

      • (Score: 2) by Dunbal on Monday May 09 2016, @10:19AM

        by Dunbal (3515) on Monday May 09 2016, @10:19AM (#343541)

        Have some potato gnocchi then...

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Rivenaleem on Monday May 09 2016, @08:28AM

    by Rivenaleem (3400) on Monday May 09 2016, @08:28AM (#343507)

    Yeah, goddamned ragu heads