Pirjo employs Pirjo logic

After looking through the kitchen for objects to help her, Pirjo is suddenly struck with an idea, and rushes out to the shed. She pulls out a butterfly net that she has attached to a skipping rope, and places her chosen root vegetable – a small radish – inside of it.

Pirjo takes her construction back to the house, and climbs up the ladder attached to the side of it. She holds the net as close to the top of the ladder as she can, and then tells Pilvi to start the clock. She then begins to slowly lower the rope towards the ground (a strategy very similar to Anis Don Demina’s solution in the original version of this task).

Pirjo then begins to climb further up the ladder, while insisting that the radish is still continuing to fall towards the ground, even though the skipping rope is at its maximum length, and the radish is therefore actually moving further away from the ground with every step. Working under this faulty logic, Pirjo spends most of the rest of her time effectively hovering her radish in the air, before finally lowering it to the ground.

In the studio, Jaakko questions which law of physics dictates that an object falling downwards can also rise upwards while doing so. Pirjo launches into a confusing justification of her attempt – which she clearly doesn’t believe herself – claiming that if she is lowering her radish, and something causes her to rise higher, the fact that the radish temporarily rises before it starts to fall again is not the fault of the radish. Jaakko sarcastically informs viewers that Pirjo is a prime example of common sense.

Pilvi reveals that Pirjo had kept her radish hovering for seven minutes. When Jaakko asks how long it took to actually fall from the time of its last rise, Pilvi admits that the time was so short that she wasn’t able to measure it. Jaakko therefore awards Pirjo last place.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by Karl Craven)