Work for the Dead

Have you ever thought about how much work will need to be done to redeem the dead? Being an engineer, I had to crunch the numbers.

Assumptions:

1. There are 7 billion people on the earth now

2. About 7 billion people have lived on the earth before now.

3. There are 13.5 million members.

4. Half of whom are active and able to go to the temple.

5. Of those member aforementioned, 2/3 of which are temple age.

6. Work will not be repeated for the dead.

7. Excluding all who are born during this time.

8. Including all who are currently alive.

9. Exclude any time for genealogy and name preparation.

Those members need to go twice a week and complete all the ordinances for 30 years to get the work done! Considering I don't think that many of my assumptions are accurate, there is likely much more work that needs to be done.

Late Pi Day

For Pi day, my wife was studying pies at school. After her class, she brought in one of the pies for my coworkers and I to share! You may think I am bias, but it was honestly the best apple pie I have ever had.

Wind & Rain

In Washington, it rains every day (or so people say). I went for a jog today in great weather. Now (3 hours later), it was raining. Even though it is great the rest of the day - it has still rained.

As I look out the window, watching the wind blow at and angle, I want to draw lines measuring the angle of the fall outside. As interesting as that would be, I could also do some math to figure out how hard the wind is blowing. I can look up the terminal velocity of a drop, measure the distance of the it moves hoizontally, project the resulting vector onto the correct plane, and get the result I am looking for.

Now that I actually think about it. It would be far simplier to measure the velocity outside than do all those calculations inside. oh well, life isn't suppose to be easy.