29 November 2005

Mix Two Parts Slut with Four Parts Dim Lighting...


It's about time some scienticians did something awesome instead of "discovering" obvious shit. In this instance, it is a quantitative exploration of the qualitative elements of beer goggles. No, seriously:

Behold! The science behind beer goggles, wherein:

An = number of units of alcohol consumed
S = smokiness of the room (graded from 0-10, where 0 equals clear air; 10 equals extremely smoky)
L = luminance of 'person of interest' (candelas per square meter; typically 1 pitch black; 150 as seen in normal room lighting)
Vo = Snellen visual acuity (6/6 normal; 6/12 just meets driving standard)
d = distance from 'person of interest' (meters; 0.5 to 3 meters)

Without this magical combination of exponents and Greek letters, we wouldn't have had 6 out of 6 of our last relationships. After all, we've always felt that blacking out and anonymous sex were indeed, a science. Yay math!

[Source: BBC News via TIWWDN]

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