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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored




Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Radio Paranoia
Jun 27, 2010

It is now safe to turn off your computer.

somebody please help unclench my rear end in a top hat

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i made some fermi estimates

weight of unloaded tank car: 110 tonnes
approximate speed: 2m/s
acceleration time to 1m/s on hitting the other car: 0.1s
total force applied: 1.1MN
contact area: ~0.28m^2 * 2
pressure between the two cars: 1964 Pa, or ~285 psi

and that's assuming it's only a single car and it is empty and it's just coasting forwards.

splort

Radio Paranoia
Jun 27, 2010

It is now safe to turn off your computer.

Sagebrush posted:

i made some fermi estimates

weight of unloaded tank car: 110 tonnes
approximate speed: 2m/s
acceleration time to 1m/s on hitting the other car: 0.1s
total force applied: 1.1MN
contact area: ~0.28m^2 * 2
pressure between the two cars: 1964 Pa, or ~285 psi

and that's assuming it's only a single car and it is empty and it's just coasting forwards.

splort

youre not helping!!!! :supaburn:

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



Radio Paranoia posted:

somebody please help unclench my rear end in a top hat

ask the train guy to help you, he's obviously used to high stress situations

ol qwerty bastard
Dec 13, 2005

If you want something done, do it yourself!

Sagebrush posted:

i made some fermi estimates

weight of unloaded tank car: 110 tonnes
approximate speed: 2m/s
acceleration time to 1m/s on hitting the other car: 0.1s
total force applied: 1.1MN
contact area: ~0.28m^2 * 2
pressure between the two cars: 1964 Pa, or ~285 psi

and that's assuming it's only a single car and it is empty and it's just coasting forwards.

splort

i like this but i think some of your numbers are just a bit off; unloaded tanker car is closer to 30 tonnes for example,

also that 0.1 s i think is actually an overestimate. if we assume a train car is basically a rigid chunk of steel then the delta t is roughly the length of the train car divided by the speed of sound in steel, which ends up being something like 3.5 milliseconds

so 15 MPa of instantaneous pressure upon impact, or more than 2000 PSI :pcgaming:

(although if you assume the force gets to act through a longer distance, i.e. through a fleshy meatbag human body, then the pressure will be lower, though still quite enough to squash you like a grape getting hit by a hammer)

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

spankmeister posted:

post your gaber vids here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIx6_Srsrog

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.



oh poo poo its the statue from Abomination: The Nemesis Project, everyone get ready to dehumanise and face to the lovecraftian apocalypse i guess

Linux Pirate
Apr 21, 2012


atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

was this half-written by an autistic person

epipen
Aug 11, 2014

nyoom

atomicthumbs posted:

was this half-written by an autistic person

iirc it was the parents of some kids who liked minecraft?

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

atomicthumbs posted:

was this half-written by an autistic person

it's about Minecraft so I'm going to say yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRdcptG365I

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Graff posted:

so hosed up on k it caused them to time travel forwards in time from 2006 when the kids still did k


k is an experimental sadbrains treatment now

go play outside Skyler
Nov 7, 2005


Sagebrush posted:

it's about Minecraft so I'm going to say yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRdcptG365I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAwiyS5aTcU

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

prefect posted:

we are also forbidden from buying booze before eight a.m. the rest of the week

in bangkok or maybe all of thailand you couldn't buy off licence booze between like 3 and 6 in the afternoon.. you had to go to a bar

it's weird but apparently to prevent post work
drinking but idk what thai people work "regular" hours cos they all just seem to always be at work all the time

Graff
May 10, 2012

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

cool a buncha lovely music that no one will listen to

i'm glad awful helpfully crashes when it tries to load that much garbage on a page

lol

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






echinopsis posted:

in bangkok or maybe all of thailand you couldn't buy off licence booze between like 3 and 6 in the afternoon.. you had to go to a bar

it's weird but apparently to prevent post work
drinking but idk what thai people work "regular" hours cos they all just seem to always be at work all the time

what kind of hosed up government would try to limit post work drinking

Crusader
Apr 11, 2002

Sombrerotron
Aug 1, 2004

Release my children! My hat is truly great and mighty.

MSPain posted:

THUNDERDOME FIVETEEN CYBER loving HARDCORE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCYHLtYQa-U
still have some thunderdome cds somewhere

good if confused times

long live the new vhs

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




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Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvAPVhdRaJ0

new commentiquette up and its good

Tin Gang
Sep 27, 2007

Tin Gang posted:

showering has no effect on germs and is terrible for your skin. there is no good reason to do it

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

malt liquor is only intended for the urban feral



http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/schmitts-gay/n10163

Video Nasty
Jun 17, 2003


hahaha yessssssss

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

nice


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0NTzt9uaE

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007



https://twitter.com/wurp/status/776905502731100160

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



Video Nasty
Jun 17, 2003

PLAY WITH ME, HUMAN

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Mo_Steel
Mar 7, 2008

Let's Clock Into The Sunset Together

Fun Shoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XhYe9JVasw

Pretty good way to lose fingers / hands / arms / life.

vodkat
Jun 30, 2012



cannot legally be sold as vodka
ATTN for atomicthumbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wXiUz9UtFo

Action Jacktion
Jun 3, 2003

Mo_Steel posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XhYe9JVasw

Pretty good way to lose fingers / hands / arms / life.

https://vimeo.com/120799574

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Mo_Steel posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XhYe9JVasw

Pretty good way to lose fingers / hands / arms / life.

it's pretty great how european railways still do that crazy rear end dangerous poo poo while america's been using way safer automatic couplers since like the goddamn civil war

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
I wonder how many would have died in that nj train crash if they were using flimsy euro trains

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong
everyday, euro rail companies have to manually tie up chains between each individual car, like its 1845 or something. lmbo

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Very good.

Radio Paranoia
Jun 27, 2010

It is now safe to turn off your computer.

echinopsis posted:

in bangkok or maybe all of thailand you couldn't buy off licence booze between like 3 and 6 in the afternoon.. you had to go to a bar

it's weird but apparently to prevent post work
drinking but idk what thai people work "regular" hours cos they all just seem to always be at work all the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kmh4BbJPz8

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

SAIL!

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H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

nerdz posted:

I bought this cheap Chinese fitness band and i just love the fitness app that comes with it:



nerdz posted:

forgot the best part where it lets you rate your sleep. the options are very nice:


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