Thursday, August 18, 2011

Eris, the Greek Mythological goddess for discord was crossed that she didn’t make it to the guest list of....?

Eris, the Greek Mythological goddess for discord was crossed that she didn’t make it to the guest list of one wedding celebration. The venue of the wedding was the entrance of a cave on ground level, overlooking Mt. Olympus. So, she threw half a golden apple into the banquet where three other goddesses present instantly quarreled over it because the inscription on the apple says “to the fairest” and probably their struggle was more for the possession of that title, than for the possession of the gold……it is not for us mortals to know. Anyways, so as not to expose herself as the instigator of all these, instead of standing at the peak of the 2920-meter Mt. Olympus, Eris chosed to throw the apple coming from the opposite hidden slope, vertically lower by 500 meters from the peak and 300 meters horizontally from it. The apple barely cleared the tip of the peak while on its way to the cave entrance 9,684 meters horizontally distant from the peak. At what angle and velocity did she throw the apple?

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