ekuNNN posted:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ror1w0pUKq1zzcmnw.mp4

McCracAttack posted:

That must feel terrifying to drive.

Sentient Data posted:

Almost everything being thrown is super low density and that tire is just thrown into the other one. Let's see a demo where the public has access with real objects on the street, then we're talking

Kith posted:

https://i.imgur.com/YHHOLe6.mp4

much like my posting

Log082 posted:

From what's in the report, at least, the crew seems to have done nothing wrong. Blame isn't assigned in the preliminary report, but my reading would be what we all probably expected: fault lies with NS's maintenance practices and rules for addressing issues while underway.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I must be the only one impressed by what it did protect the car from.

`Nemesis posted:

no injuries, just some crushed cars.

Odonata posted:

OSHA thread, I seek your wisdom.
One of my college-aged neighbors appears to lack both tarp or ice scraper as she instead decided to pour a bottle of rubbing alcohol all over her windshield to break up what was now solidified sleet. To my thinking this is a bad dangerous idea. I did not stick around to see the results.
Am I so out of touch or is it the children who are wrong?

Odonata posted:

OSHA thread, I seek your wisdom.
One of my college-aged neighbors appears to lack both tarp or ice scraper as she instead decided to pour a bottle of rubbing alcohol all over her windshield to break up what was now solidified sleet. To my thinking this is a bad dangerous idea. I did not stick around to see the results.
Am I so out of touch or is it the children who are wrong?

C.M. Kruger posted:

J.B.S. Haldane posted:
"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes."

Computer viking posted:

IIRC, cats have a terminal velocity that's typically survivable for them, though they can of course get injured. YMMV depending on floofiness of cat and the surface they land on, too.

Still, you do sometimes see stories of cats falling out of skyscrapers and walking away - in theory you could airdrop unprotected cats from a plane and some significant fraction of them would walk away from the landing.

And just in case it needs saying: don't test this.

Computer viking posted:

IIRC, cats have a terminal velocity that's typically survivable for them, though they can of course get injured. YMMV depending on floofiness of cat and the surface they land on, too.

Still, you do sometimes see stories of cats falling out of skyscrapers and walking away - in theory you could airdrop unprotected cats from a plane and some significant fraction of them would walk away from the landing.

And just in case it needs saying: don't test this.

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My dad was a skydiver back in the sixties. There was a guy in his club that was a nut. He had the idea that he could test the axiom that "cats always land on their feet" from free fall altitude, where he would fall with them and observe their self-righting behavior. He had no interest in aiding their descent, just wanted to see how they behaved in free fall. In his plan, landing was the cats' problem, not his. Scientific impartiality, or some such thing.

He took four stray cats up in a pillowcase for the jump. After exiting the plane, he turned the pillowcase inside out, releasing the cats. To his great surprise, all four cats attached themselves to his body immediately. With their claws. Given that cats have 18 claws each, he was punctured at least 72 times. More, probably, because he struggled vainly to remove the cats as he fell, but they were having none of it, and would reattach with even more conviction with every effort he made to pull them off.

Presently, he was out of altitude, and had to turn his attention to opening the chute. Let's pause to do some math. A chute opening can generate as much as 3 Gs of force. The average cat weighs 8 lbs at 1 G. At three Gs, this becomes 24 lbs per cat. So when the chute opened, for a moment this guy had 72 razor sharp claws in his skin, each one being pulled down with a force of about one and a third pounds. That's 96 pounds of cat. He was sliced to ribbons, basically.

All four cats hung on through the chute opening, although the skydiver's shredded flesh allowed each one to slip several inches. Bleeding and in misery, the skydiver managed to make a safe, if rather rough, landing in a farm field.

As soon as he hit the earth, all four cats ran off across the field, leaving him to lie there bleeding from his hundred or so wounds. He was the only member of the skydiving club that was displeased with the results of his experiment.

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My dad was a skydiver back in the sixties. There was a guy in his club that was a nut. He had the idea that he could test the axiom that “cats always land on their feet” from free fall altitude, where he would fall with them and observe their self-righting behavior. He had no interest in aiding their descent, just wanted to see how they behaved in free fall. In his plan, landing was the cats’ problem, not his. Scientific impartiality, or some such thing.

He took four stray cats up in a pillowcase for the jump. After exiting the plane, he turned the pillowcase inside out, releasing the cats. To his great surprise, all four cats attached themselves to his body immediately. With their claws. Given that cats have 18 claws each, he was punctured at least 72 times. More, probably, because he struggled vainly to remove the cats as he fell, but they were having none of it, and would reattach with even more conviction with every effort he made to pull them off.

Presently, he was out of altitude, and had to turn his attention to opening the chute. Let’s pause to do some math. A chute opening can generate as much as 3 Gs of force. The average cat weighs 8 lbs at 1 G. At three Gs, this becomes 24 lbs per cat. So when the chute opened, for a moment this guy had 72 razor sharp claws in his skin, each one being pulled down with a force of about one and a third pounds. That’s 96 pounds of cat. He was sliced to ribbons, basically.

All four cats hung on through the chute opening, although the skydiver’s shredded flesh allowed each one to slip several inches. Bleeding and in misery, the skydiver managed to make a safe, if rather rough, landing in a farm field.

As soon as he hit the earth, all four cats ran off across the field, leaving him to lie there bleeding from his hundred or so wounds. He was the only member of the skydiving club that was displeased with the results of his experiment.

Computer viking posted:

IIRC, cats have a terminal velocity that's typically survivable for them, though they can of course get injured. YMMV depending on floofiness of cat and the surface they land on, too.

Still, you do sometimes see stories of cats falling out of skyscrapers and walking away - in theory you could airdrop unprotected cats from a plane and some significant fraction of them would walk away from the landing.

And just in case it needs saying: don't test this.

BlackIronHeart posted:

It'll gently caress up her paint job, if that's something she might care about.

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/JAVpBu1.gifv

I never had the cool borderline psycho science teacher.

Odonata posted:

It would appear I am indeed so out of touch. All I could think of was it being a very flammable liquid on her car.
Owning an ice scraper still seems like a better choice in New England.

ekuNNN posted:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rqjredNLLV1r0uzl6.mp4

Platystemon posted:

Unperson_47 posted:

I don't trust polls. I only trust ProjectFarm

ekuNNN posted:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rqi55lq6bj1s1ddrj.mp4

Wistful of Dollars posted:

maybe this thread needs a Milwaukee vs DeWalt poll

bar88537 posted:

I think it's funny that most hoods are just pointed outside. Once the hazard is out of the building, it's not a problem anymore.

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In this method, the infectious disease zone (IDZ) is depressurized using an exhaust diversion system taking air from the IDZ and exhausting it to the outside 25 feet away from public access and air intakes

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Large exhaust fans placed in the window can be used instead of HEPA filters if the air is exhausted 25 feet away from public access and air intakes.