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VectorSigma posted:"hey dude, i bet i can stop a car moving at 60 mph with my body. you drive." The key is to make sure the car is in neutral when you try to stop it, otherwise you'll get crushed.
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Lime Tonics posted:Idiot tries to prove something? The end result was not pretty. 
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Mithaldu posted:I know it's an advertisement, but it fits well enough: Where's Matt Ylgesias to say this is a good thing?
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Lime Tonics posted:Idiot tries to prove something? That locked rotor torque is pretty drat high, isn't it?
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The McWane Corporation, well worth the hour to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH5mAH5BhDk
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Lime Tonics posted:Idiot tries to prove something?
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I hope that's his pants bunching up in a wierd way and not his leg bending.
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Anony Mouse posted:What's with the rear end in a top hat behind him reacting as slow as molasses? If you're dumb enough to try something like this, at least get someone smarter than you to run the lathe. He'd already put down his quarter, so he was just moving up because it was his turn.
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Three-Phase posted:That locked rotor torque is pretty drat high, isn't it? Also worth considering that an engine lathe like that usually uses a motor operating at a fixed speed of around 1500 RPM, with belts and gears to adjust the speed. So to get that ~30 RPM output, he's got it on the largest pulley and the back gears engaged, for an effective torque multiplication of around 50:1. e: like, a good question to ask yourself before trying that stunt is: "am I strong enough that I could use a chisel to peel a piece of steel pipe like an apple?" cause the lathe can do that all day long. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:I hope that's his pants bunching up in a wierd way and not his leg bending. Sagebrush posted:Also worth considering that an engine lathe like that usually uses a motor operating at a fixed speed of around 1500 RPM, with belts and gears to adjust the speed. So to get that ~30 RPM output, he's got it on the largest pulley and the back gears engaged, for an effective torque multiplication of around 50:1.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wKPTWXD2Z0&t=23s
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that thing easily had enough torque to pull his leg off like a piece of warm taffy, but it looks like he got lucky and rolled over the right direction
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9-FhELeX9M
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A mix-up with the signaller meant that this driver got a chance to see just how much space you actually have between two Intercity 125s on adjacent tracks while investigating a fault with his locomotive:  The guy's fine (or at least as fine as you can be after a near miss like that): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/kyle-beck-safety-digest/near-miss-at-kyle-beck-3-august-2016
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Sponge Baathist posted:
Depending on the pressure they can push air right through your intact skin , potentially causing internal infections (bacteria carried along by the air) or air bubbles that block blood vessels leading to necrosis and a surgeon removing your flesh glove.
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Lime Tonics posted:Idiot tries to prove something? He proved to me that wrestlin' is real
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Say Nothing posted:The end result was not pretty. If I try hard enough, I can become a spiral!
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Sagebrush posted:Also worth considering that an engine lathe like that usually uses a motor operating at a fixed speed of around 1500 RPM, with belts and gears to adjust the speed. So to get that ~30 RPM output, he's got it on the largest pulley and the back gears engaged, for an effective torque multiplication of around 50:1.
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Phanatic posted:A few years ago they did a '59 Bel Air vs. an '09 Malibu. Not sure why they mixed them up like that, maybe they couldn't find a '59 Malibu to sacrifice. But, anyway, Jesus: Why not scale it up? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCFhH30EuBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGXJihiWLyk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXivaUEsEqU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jagBEcvLe5Q chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Why not scale it up? Wait, there's people filming that on their phones and stuff in one of those shots. Are crash tests open to the public now? Is it the next big spectator sport?
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Wait, there's people filming that on their phones and stuff in one of those shots. Are crash tests open to the public now? Is it the next big spectator sport? That would be amazing. They must be fun places to work at. Also it seems like the crash safety for buses is "Don't crash."
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I actually watched a documentary on crash test dummies* last night and it is weeks of preparation for a 15 second crash which they analyze for weeks afterwards. I'm not sure if it's a great spectator event. You probably end up standing quite a distance away from the crash as a safety measure since you've got debris flying everywhere. *not the ones that mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
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chitoryu12 posted:That would be amazing. They must be fun places to work at. Trains and buses have crumple zones, they're just filled with squishy human meat.
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Imagined posted:Trains and buses have crumple zones, they're just filled with unfastened squishy human meat. 
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the design philosophy for busses i believe is that whatever else you are going to hit probably has less people in it so you use them as your crumple zone
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Does anyone have that Prevent-It.ca kitchen oil spill video where after she screams bloody murder, it cuts to "Hmm mmh that's the power of Crisco!"Imagined posted:Trains and buses have crumple zones, they're the car your in. efb
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Mierenneuker posted:I actually watched a documentary on crash test dummies* last night and it is weeks of preparation for a 15 second crash which they analyze for weeks afterwards. I'm not sure if it's a great spectator event. You probably end up standing quite a distance away from the crash as a safety measure since you've got debris flying everywhere. I think this is the case for most experiment-based fields (and a lot of the sciences). The field work/actual experiment is pretty great/interesting but the setup and subsequent extreme analysis can be mind-numbingly boring.
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REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS posted:I think this is the case for most experiment-based fields (and a lot of the sciences). The field work/actual experiment is pretty great/interesting but the setup and subsequent extreme analysis can be mind-numbingly boring. "Uggh I've got a theoretical physics doctorate from MIT and all they have me do is push this stupid hand-cart into WHOA NOW WHAT THE HECK?!?"
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Jerry Cotton posted:"Uggh I've got a theoretical physics doctorate from MIT and all they have me do is push this stupid hand-cart into WHOA NOW WHAT THE HECK?!?" Freeman's mind had such a good premise.
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NHTSA does not-so-public tours for car-based companies at least. Usually you're on a catwalk with a plexiglass divider. You can film but you're not supposed to make money off of the videos as an observer.
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Mierenneuker posted:You probably end up standing quite a distance away from the crash as a safety measure since you've got debris flying everywhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82QmDrqD20s
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lol at everyone that just stood there when that poo poo hopped the barrier
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Lime Tonics posted:Idiot tries to prove something? (warning: gore)
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Here's another school bus test with backpacks and coolers included, like a field trip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJegZB7KOVY
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Wait, there's people filming that on their phones and stuff in one of those shots. Are crash tests open to the public now? Is it the next big spectator sport? It's been done, and went as well as you can imagine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Texas
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NewForumSoftware posted:lol at everyone that just stood there when that poo poo hopped the barrier Seriously. What did they think was going to happen?
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Lady Demelza posted:It's been done, and went as well as you can imagine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Texas The best part: "Crush was immediately fired from the Katy railroad. In light of a lack of negative publicity, however, he was rehired the next day." Things were so inefficient back then. Nowadays they'd skip the whole fire/rehire part. Possibly even promote him, or grant him a larger golden parachute.
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Crash tests are fun to watch, but sometimes they can be scary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3G-kcKN70 Try not to crash into the back of a semi.
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