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Actually since the aim is to avoid being hit by a bus, inside a bus seems like a pretty good place to put everyone.

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mpnordland 10y ago
Assume N is the total number of buses. Where N=1 your solution works. For N>1 the engineers can still be hit by a bus. This also ignores all other vehicles such as garbage trucks, semis and stealth bombers, all of which can take out your bus.
Sanddancer 10y ago
You want to avoid sticking everyone on the same (air)bus too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771#Aftermath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Fli...
FireBeyond 10y ago
Also called (by me) as "Baldrick's Bullet": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKRxX3s3JlM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKRxX3s3JlM Captain Blackadder: Baldrick, what are you doing out there? Private Baldrick: I'm carving something on a bullet, sir. Captain Blackadder: What are you craving? Private Baldrick: I'm carving "Baldrick", sir. Captain Blackadder: Why? Private Baldrick: It's part of a cunning plan, sir. Captain Blackadder: Of course it is. Private Baldrick: You know how they say that somewhere there's a bullet with your name on it? Captain Blackadder: Yes? Private Baldrick: Well I thought that if I owned the bullet with my name on it, I'll never get hit by it. Cause I'll never shoot myself... Captain Blackadder: Oh, shame! Private Baldrick: And the chances of there being two bullets with my name on it are very small indeed. Captain Blackadder: Yes, it's not the only thing that is "very small indeed". Your brain for example- is brain's so minute, Baldrick, that if a hungry cannibal cracked your head open, there wouldn't be enough to cover a small water biscuit.
StavrosK 10y ago
The problem was that, even though Reddit had multiple engineers, they were all on the same plane, and thus unavailable at the same time.

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Assume N is the total number of buses. Where N=1 your solution works. For N>1 the engineers can still be hit by a bus. This also ignores all other vehicles such as garbage trucks, semis and stealth bombers, all of which can take out your bus.

Sanddancer 10y ago

You want to avoid sticking everyone on the same (air)bus too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771#Aftermath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Fli...

FireBeyond 10y ago

Also called (by me) as "Baldrick's Bullet": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKRxX3s3JlM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKRxX3s3JlM Captain Blackadder: Baldrick, what are you doing out there? Private Baldrick: I'm carving something on a bullet, sir. Captain Blackadder: What are you craving? Private Baldrick: I'm carving "Baldrick", sir. Captain Blackadder: Why? Private Baldrick: It's part of a cunning plan, sir. Captain Blackadder: Of course it is. Private Baldrick: You know how they say that somewhere there's a bullet with your name on it? Captain Blackadder: Yes? Private Baldrick: Well I thought that if I owned the bullet with my name on it, I'll never get hit by it. Cause I'll never shoot myself... Captain Blackadder: Oh, shame! Private Baldrick: And the chances of there being two bullets with my name on it are very small indeed. Captain Blackadder: Yes, it's not the only thing that is "very small indeed". Your brain for example- is brain's so minute, Baldrick, that if a hungry cannibal cracked your head open, there wouldn't be enough to cover a small water biscuit.

StavrosK 10y ago

The problem was that, even though Reddit had multiple engineers, they were all on the same plane, and thus unavailable at the same time.