What Makes 100% ?

What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%.

How about achieving 103%?

What makes up 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:

If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K

8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

And

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E

11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But ,

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E

1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,

B-U-L-L-......(you know what!)

2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND, look how far a-s-s kissing will take you.

A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G

1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty, that while Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and

Attitude will get you there. Its the Bull.... and A-s-s Kissing that will put you over the top!

Now you know why Politicians are where they are!

I’ve never seen a better explanation than this formula…………..how true it is.

Edited September 20, 20205 yr by charliearon
Remove swear word. Better than removing the whole post, eh?

"Challenger is now operating at 110% of maximum thrust"....Never understood that one!😮

 

Hi Ron, I thought I would give you a 103% with a like. 118% would be an upvote but I won't  go that far. 

Ron - you have 100% of my approval sir! 

55 minutes ago, Adrian123 said:

"Challenger is now operating at 110% of maximum thrust"....Never understood that one!😮

 

The Orbiter's engines could produce 380,000lbs of thrust at sea level, but since that number was the power specification NASA wanted when the engine was originally being developed, 380,000lbs of thrust was its rated power level (RPL). Sort of like the 'guaranteed minimum' from the manufacturer.

When you test engines like such as those, you might take them up to 50 percent of the desired thrust level on your target first test firing, by limiting the throughput of fuel, to see how the metals and such hold up to temperature and vibration etc. Then you might go a bit more on the next test, and so on, until you finally determine the thing is safe and capable of running at your target level of power. This was quite a lengthy process because, unlike most rocket engines, the engines on the Orbiter were obviously intended to be reusable, so they had to be more durable.

When you've done that incremental testing and you know your engine can run at your desired final target power level safely, you declare that it can run at its rated power level, which is of course 100 percent of what you were aiming for. But then, to be thorough, you test it to destruction to see what the margin for error is, but also to determine if it could have an emergency power setting past its rated setting. Full Power Level was originally named Emergency Power Level, but since it could be, and was used when there was not an emergency, the name changed to the less alarming alternative. So...

In addition to RPL (100 percent) on the Orbiter's engines giving 380,000lbs of thrust at sea level, there was also Nominal Power Level (NPL), which was 104.5 percent of RPL, giving an additional 90,000lbs of thrust, then there was Full Power Level (FPL) which was 109 percent of RPL, which added another 30,000lbs of thrust to make the output 420,000lbs at sea level.

The thrust levels actually increase with altitude too, so although the engines produced 380,000lbs of thrust at RPL at sea level, they produced 470,000lbs of thrust at RPL in a vacuum. At maximum Full Power Level settings, they produced 512,000lbs of thrust in a vacuum.

Personally I think they should have called FPL 'Ludicrous Speed' just for a laugh. 'Challenger, Go to Ludicrous Speed' on the radio comms would have been fantastic.

Edited September 20, 20205 yr by Chock

Adding Hard Work, Knowledge and Attitude I'll give you 294% Ron.

Noel

This one pretty much sums it up, from Spinal Tap, these amps go to 11 instead of 10, one louder...