Comments on this interview question

[bolido2000]

Originally posted by: notfred
Drop the bowling ball to the bottom, remove the oar from the boat and set it on the surface of the water where you dropped the ball in. Use your hands to paddle the boat away from the oar. Measure the distance from the oar to the new locatation of the boat, and the angle from the boat to the ball relative to the surface of the water and use some trigenometry to find the distance to the bottom of the ocean. Then go back and get your oar cause it's going to be a lot more useful than that depth measurement.

That would work if the guy is stucked in Tahiti or something. I don't think you can see the bowling bowl when it hits the bottom. 🙂


I think the answer he gave is that he would somehow tie the oar to the bowling ball and theoretically when the ball hits the bottom the impact will make the oar float back to the surface.

This question was for a game testing internship.

 

[flamingelephant]

Originally posted by: bolido2000

Originally posted by: notfred
Drop the bowling ball to the bottom, remove the oar from the boat and set it on the surface of the water where you dropped the ball in. Use your hands to paddle the boat away from the oar. Measure the distance from the oar to the new locatation of the boat, and the angle from the boat to the ball relative to the surface of the water and use some trigenometry to find the distance to the bottom of the ocean. Then go back and get your oar cause it's going to be a lot more useful than that depth measurement.

That would work if the guy is stucked in Tahiti or something. I don't think you can see the bowling bowl when it hits the bottom. 🙂


I think the answer he gave is that he would somehow tie the oar to the bowling ball and theoretically when the ball hits the bottom the impact will make the oar float back to the surface.

This question was for a game testing internship.

you'd have to account for the refractory properties of the light moving from the water to the air.... that changes all the angles

 

[Argo]

Break the oar and use the pieces to block holes in the bowling ball. Drop the ball in the water, because the ball is full of air it should float. Admire your creation while you starve to death.

 

[her209]

Stick the handle into the hole of the bowling ball and use it to bash your head in while thinking about how deep the ocean is.

 

[Noirish]

Do they really want to know how deep the ocean is?
I mean if you can't see the bottom of it then it's deep enough that you don't want to be left without some floating object.
It seems like a dangerous situation for you to sit around and figure out the depth of the ocean.
I'd drop the bowling ball and pick a direction and paddle.

It also depends on what job is he applying for?
If it's a manager position, you probably don't want to always do what you are told.
You have to make some alternative decisions sometimes.

Anyway...

 

[MrDingleDangle]

i agree with either using a fish finder, but i guess u would need more then 1 element...cause u would need electricity...

just tieing a rope to the ball...measure how much of the rope went into the water when the ball hit the bottem...

while this is occuring sharpen the end of the oar and try and spear some fish with it

 

[GaryShandling]

Unravel your clothes untill you have a piece of string from your jumper/t shirt. Do the same with your pants, and so forth. Then tie all the pieces together and then around the oar. Then put the head of the oar into 1 of your shoes which will make it heavy enough to sink due to the shoe filling with water as it goes down + absorbation of the shoe. Wait untill the oar stops moving downwards and it hits the ocean floor by seeing that your string stops being fed. Then pull up the oar and look at the piece of string, you can determine how deep it goes by finding the DRY piece of string and measuring from there onwards 🙂. Various measuring ways are rolling the bowling ball from the dry bit. From 3 holes of the ball to 3 holes = 1 yard. Or you could use your feet considering you know what shoe size you are this is the nearest way of a perfect measurement 🙂. Very easy, and no other elements introduced.

Thank you

Gary S.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: nick1985
drop the ball and eye-ball it to the bottom and take your best guess. and use the oar for anal stimulation

Sorry, you have that backwards.