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Message started by Paladin on 05/17/05 at 18:25:25

Title: L.A. Traffic
Post by Paladin on 05/17/05 at 18:25:25

http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/000774.html

Title: Re: L.A. Traffic
Post by Joel on 05/17/05 at 18:52:31

at least there isnt a bike on top of that car :-/

Title: Re: L.A. Traffic
Post by bobo383 on 05/17/05 at 19:57:52

Very nice physics demonstration! I wish I had that pic back in college when I was teaching Physics 101 labs. Wild graphic results are soooo much better than vectors and force diagrams...

Title: Re: L.A. Traffic
Post by Reelthing on 05/17/05 at 21:20:29

D'am! - people all get out of that one?

Title: Re: L.A. Traffic
Post by Karen627 on 05/17/05 at 22:08:17

And if you look very carefully, you can see a guy standing on top of the upended car, balancing a spinning a plate on a stick.

;D

Title: Re: L.A. Traffic
Post by Paladin on 05/17/05 at 22:22:48

http://cbs2.com/topstories/topstoriesla_story_137190216.html

Three people injured. Not bad, considering.

If the middle car were a bike the rider would be jelly. Which simply means you cannot allow yourself, as a biker, to be caught in the middle.

I tend to get fascinated by the applied physics of collisions. Stems from things like watching a car broadside a pickup truck twenty feet in front of me and my YammerHammer and seeing the 3500 pound+ truck knocked into a 270 degree spin. Tried to guess how far that car would have knocked my 350 pounds total.

Title: Re: L.A. Traffic
Post by sluggo on 05/17/05 at 23:14:43

looks more like a valet parking job in burbank.

lesson, always tip good.

Title: Re: L.A. Traffic
Post by Mr 650 on 05/17/05 at 23:25:07

Cool!

"The Laws of Physics, They enforce themselves." 8)