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Question:both teams have impeccable groin muscles and one person (there are two on each side) on side B sneezes who will win the contest? Do not take air into account as friction. The most entaining/ creative answer or the most well thought out accurate answer will win.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: both teams have impeccable groin muscles and one person (there are two on each side) on side B sneezes who will win the contest? Do not take air into account as friction. The most entaining/ creative answer or the most well thought out accurate answer will win.

Team B wins by a nose! ...(Hurrah?)
Since the ice is frictionless, the
"impeccable groin muscles" are a matter
of no importance whatever.
Team B will win since the reaction force of
that sneeze is the only force you mention
not lost to the "frictionless ice" .

You're a jerk, selling winning answers like that. Tsk Tsk...

well, they wouldnt get their feet on the ground, and they wouldnt be able to even stand on frictionless ice

I think I'll cross that bridge when i come to it.

This is a physics question. Best ask it over on the physics board.

Hi!! i think it would be the team, whose captain had the good sense to tell them to put sacking over their boots.
Cannot think of a better way under the circumstances.

maybe because they used up energy.