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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 8, 2021 17:44:17 GMT -5
Not sure I can blame the driver for this one, or what it has to do with Darwin, but it was the best thread I could find (on the first page) without starting a new one. I've always wondered if, in real life, people scream their lungs off during the fall. Or are they mute from the pure shock of the situation? In the movies, characters scream their nuts off in hilarious fashion.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 8, 2021 17:50:55 GMT -5
I believe you can see airbags firing off there. Probably side airbags registering a rollover event.
You can also see that the snow acted as ramp to launch the car over the wall (which is normally designed to prevent exactly this scenario).
I am pretty sure I would be saying "F*ck" as that happened, not screaming incoherently.
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Post by FreeBall on Feb 8, 2021 18:31:21 GMT -5
I've always wondered if, in real life, people scream their lungs off during the fall. Or are they mute from the pure shock of the situation? A number of years ago I had a car make a left turn into my path while riding my bike at 20+ mph. It was the weirdest feeling while this was happening - it proceeded in slow motion in my mind, but was also over in what seemed like a micro-second. I distinctly remember thinking "I'm f*cking dead" in that brief period of time. Luckily the car was turning from a complete stop and was going no more than 5 mph when he hit me. I was directly in front of the car at impact, which felt like it knocked the bike out from under me and left me standing in the street. In actuality I slid across the hood of the car and landed on my feet by the front drivers side quarter panel. It was really a weird experience.
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Post by hammer on Feb 8, 2021 21:03:19 GMT -5
70 foot fall, so car would have been traveling roughly 45 mph at impact. The video isn't great but it looks like the car landed on it's wheels, which probably is the best or one of the best scenarios for the driver/passengers.
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Post by hammer on Feb 8, 2021 21:13:58 GMT -5
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Post by Mocha on Apr 19, 2021 10:09:47 GMT -5
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 19, 2021 17:06:37 GMT -5
Fire departments need more training on how to deal with battery fires. It is just totally unsurprising that spraying water on a lithium battery does not put out the fire. And in case people don't understand basic thermodynamics, if an electric car has enough charge to drive as far as a gasoline car, then the batteries have to have about as much energy in them as the gasoline. (Maybe a little more or less based on how efficiently that energy is used.) So yeah, battery fires are at least as bad as gasoline fires, but also harder to extinguish.
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Post by jayj79 on Apr 20, 2021 8:54:45 GMT -5
Fire departments need more training on how to deal with battery fires. It is just totally unsurprising that spraying water on a lithium battery does not put out the fire. And in case people don't understand basic thermodynamics, if an electric car has enough charge to drive as far as a gasoline car, then the batteries have to have about as much energy in them as the gasoline. (Maybe a little more or less based on how efficiently that energy is used.) So yeah, battery fires are at least as bad as gasoline fires, but also harder to extinguish. perhaps, though the "Darwin award" aspect is not about the firefighting, but about the "no one in the drivers seat" aspect
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Post by hammer on Apr 20, 2021 18:42:22 GMT -5
Fire departments need more training on how to deal with battery fires. It is just totally unsurprising that spraying water on a lithium battery does not put out the fire. And in case people don't understand basic thermodynamics, if an electric car has enough charge to drive as far as a gasoline car, then the batteries have to have about as much energy in them as the gasoline. (Maybe a little more or less based on how efficiently that energy is used.) So yeah, battery fires are at least as bad as gasoline fires, but also harder to extinguish. perhaps, though the "Darwin award" aspect is not about the firefighting, but about the "no one in the drivers seat" aspect In this video we will review what happens when Lithium is added to H 2O:
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Post by jayj79 on Apr 20, 2021 19:06:07 GMT -5
In this video we will review what happens when Lithium is added to H 2O: I like it, I'm not gonna crack I miss you, I'm not gonna crack I love you, I'm not gonna crack I killed you, I'm not gonna crack
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Post by knapplc on Apr 21, 2021 12:54:33 GMT -5
I've always wondered if, in real life, people scream their lungs off during the fall. Or are they mute from the pure shock of the situation? In the movies, characters scream their nuts off in hilarious fashion. I rolled a car end-for-end seven times after leaving the road and hitting the wall of a farmer's track, caroming into a field. I wasn't really able to scream, I just made these inarticulate noises of abject terror. It was not like the movies and it was super not hilarious. Wear your seatbelts, kids!
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Post by Mocha on Jun 11, 2021 15:50:31 GMT -5
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Post by Mocha on Oct 2, 2021 18:10:27 GMT -5
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 2, 2021 19:27:17 GMT -5
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Post by jayj79 on Oct 3, 2021 11:34:11 GMT -5
I nominate any anti-vaxxer/anti-masker who dies from Covid for the Darwin award
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