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Applied Boyle’s Law - G8

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The Plooptionary is pleased (and mildly anxious) to announce a new series - taking proven mathematical formula and applying them to wildly unlikely settings.

it is, as plooptionary posts always aim to be, highly interactive and will only really come to life when the hugely talented and creative members of the Ploop world bring their thinking to bear on the subject.

The first in this occasional series takes the much loved, and i’m sure much used, Boyle’s Law for the expansion of gases and applies it to the G8 summit.

PV = k

…as every schoolboy and girl knows …

where P is the pressure of the gas, V the volume of the gas and k a constant - it’s used as a way of predicting the effect of change. As P goes up, V must go down.

Useful for gases no question but also perhaps extremely useful for understanding summits of world leaders.

If k (as the constant) means, in this contest, ‘no real agreement reached on anything’

what could P and V stand for?

A couple of examples to get you started:
P = pressure from global protestors armed with organic carrots and mace
V = volume of informed press coverage on actual issues

P = pressure on America to make any concession that they might be the teeniest weeniest ickle bit accountable for climate change
V = volume of Scientists who will publicly stand up and say it

P = pressure on Lindsey Lohan to buy her own rehab and save on future bills
V = volume of information about world poverty Vladimir Putin can possibly retain from one moment to the next (he is of course a massive Lohan fan and owns platinum copies of both Freaky Friday and The Parent Trap)

we look forward to these pitiful examples being hopelessly shown up by your brilliant thoughts.

and for those of you who like to plan ahead i’ve got two words - Hooke and Law. I know. i can barely wait either!

Enjoy…

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  1. Cow farts - i love that one…

    so by that reckoning it’s probably all the Indians fault right! Because not only do they like cows, they worship the filthy bovine climate changers.

    this could be a really useful new ploy for W to deflect attention away from his own country’s oversized carbon foot print by pointing out that actually it’s all Ghandi’s fault!

    Brilliant.

    P = pressure on other G8 leaders to accept W’s new bovine / indian axis of carbon evil
    V = volume of paidfor scientists america needs to prove that the ice caps aren’t melting - it’s just an optical illusion caused by staring at the sun too long

    in other matters i’ll bid for Lohan. Sure she’s a crazy horse but it’ll give me some bargaining power opposite Putin.

    1. cloop on June 4th, 2007 at 9:57 pm

  2. You got me thinking cloop:

    P = days since the end of the cold war
    V = days until the stand-off starts again - with shiny new war heads

    P = Pressure on Paris Hilton to ’save’ a poor lost soul she meets in prison
    V = Amount the poor lost soul’s life improves

    You’re onto a winner here cloop - I’m a huge Hooke Fan too. Don’t get me started on Ohm

    2. ploop on June 4th, 2007 at 9:57 pm

  3. I have no intelligent alternatives to your proposed equations, yet. However, I do feel the need to point out the fallacies in your ideas.

    1.V = volume of informed press coverage on actual issues.

    The flaw in this one is obvious, there is no such thing as informed press.

    2.P= pressure on America to make any concession that they might be the teeniest weeniest ickle bit accountable for climate change.

    Why would we ever do anything so absurd, when we can just keep blaming it all on North Korea and cow farts? (ah, the blissful lack of accountability for being the last super power is so comforting)

    3.V = volume of Scientists who will publicly stand up and say it.

    I heard that guy died of SARS last year.

    I do like that association between world leaders and gas, though. By the way, we Americans are going auction off Lindsey Lohan on Ebay. Any takers? Warning: the product being auctioned could, after purchase, incur further cost in rehabilitation and crashed automobile clean up. The 1st and 2nd runner up bidders will get Paris Hilton and Tare Reid, respectively. All sales are final and based on the stipulation that they can never be returned to the U.S……………ever!

    3. Chris on June 4th, 2007 at 9:07 pm

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