Mental Floss 60
The answer to last week’s challenge is. Q: Why would an organisation spend tens of millions of dollars to find something that costs only a few thousand dollars?
A: The sought after object would be the Black Box Flight Recorder in the event of a plane crash.
This week’s lateral thinking challenge is.
Q: During a medical examination, Dwayne’s blood pressure was found to be 3 x that of a normal healthy person. Yet, Dwayne’s Doctor was not too concerned. Why not?
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The answer along with another challenge, next week.
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Answer 1; Dwayne is a giraffe which needs high blood pressure to push the blood up high to the giraffe’s head.
Answer 2; (I am not quite sure of this) Dwayne is an astronaut accelerating at more than 3x gravitational acceleration during takeoff.
Great answer for Mental Floss 59!
To generalise; a device that may cost even a few dollars, if it contains vital information for an industry or the security of a country could be worth 10s of millions of dollars.
When I was thinking of a solution for MF 59 it didn’t cross my mind to think of the value of information stored in a cheap device which one does not pay for when buying the device which obviously does not contain the information.