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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Klaustrophobia on September 09, 2010, 11:34:49 am
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http://gizmodo.com/5632751/how-not-to-fire-a-watermelon-out-of-a-huge-slingshot (http://gizmodo.com/5632751/how-not-to-fire-a-watermelon-out-of-a-huge-slingshot)
:eek:
Fixed the link - Flipside
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Title should have been link uber-fail. :P
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And the host had the gall to ask if she could continue?
That's the fail here.
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no the host TOLD her she HAD to continue. :lol:
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A quick recap.
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/4/2010/09/4387c40280664317abff12a9ac6cf245/340x.gif)
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My new favorite video of all time.
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if only she would have had some sort of concussion and suffered damage due to the pretentious host's insistence that she continue.
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What bobboau mentioned was how this show appears put money before people in order of importance. That's why she was incessantly asked to continue despite possible and likely concussion.
Who in their right mind would have told watermelon face lady that she needs to continue aside from the host? I know i wouldn't.
The money gained from watermelon face lady must somehow offset the legal liability that this might have incurred for the show, unless certain papers were signed before competing on the show.
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i have no doubt they were legally covered by waiver/whatever.
of course she had the option of stopping, at the cost of forfeiting the competetion.
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I'm honestly surprised she still has a face.
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I'm no doctor, but that's going to hurt tomorrow :lol:
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it' probably hurts today also.
I'm supprized no one has brought up my slingshot escapades.
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i was about to
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I'm supprized no one has brought up my slingshot escapades.
I don't recall hearing about these.
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"You'll shoot your eye out!" came true...
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http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=33765.0
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Ooooh, that made me physically ill. I'm not even kidding. :ick:
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Bob should put up the scan of his head again
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yes :yes:
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I don't think I have it
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:(
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ok this sounds bad, but i was snickering throughout reading that post. it was the delivery, not the content. ;)
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ok this sounds bad, but i was snickering throughout reading that post. it was the delivery, not the content. ;)
Oh, snap. ;7
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Host *****: You have to finish.
Watermelon girl: Seriously? I can't even see straight!
Host *****: They don't call it the amazing race for nothing.
The host lady is annoying and doesn't serve any purpose with her ****ty motivational skills. If watermelon lady was feeling a little bit better, she should have given host lady a face watermelon too and tell her "i'm not giving up, i'm frustrated!"
Damn, **** reality game shows. If you have to sign a waiver that says you can't sue the people running the game show if you get injured, then you probably don't want to go on the show.
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If you have to sign a waiver that says you can't sue the people running the game show if you get injured, then you probably don't want to go on the show.
To be fair, you probably have to sign one of those to even go on Wheel. Of. FORTUUUUUNEEE!!!!
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Yeah man, you might lean forward too much while spinning the wheel, fall on it, get dizzy, puke all over the place, then the puke gets forced into the edges of the wheel by centrifugal force, resulting in shorting out the circuits and getting you electrocuted.
That would be bad.
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Yeah man, you might lean forward too much while spinning the wheel, fall on it, get dizzy, puke all over the place, then the puke gets forced into the edges of the wheel by centrifugal force, resulting in shorting out the circuits and getting you electrocuted.
You mean centripital force. There's no such thing as centrifugal force.
:P
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Yeah man, you might lean forward too much while spinning the wheel, fall on it, get dizzy, puke all over the place, then the puke gets forced into the edges of the wheel by centrifugal force, resulting in shorting out the circuits and getting you electrocuted.
You mean centripetal force. There's no such thing as centrifugal force.
:P
I'm going to put a billboard in space that advertises this fact.
Also, fixed.
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No, no, he most definitely means centrifugal since a centripetal force would by no means force stuff away from the center of rotation.
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/centrifugal_force.png)
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YES, this is now a physics thread. :D
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Oh! Slingshots + Wattermelons = Candidate (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=69862.60)
Also: That's gotta hurt like hell.
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No, no, he most definitely means centrifugal since a centripetal force would by no means force stuff away from the center of rotation.
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/centrifugal_force.png)
inertia takes care of that part.
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No, no, he most definitely means centrifugal since a centripetal force would by no means force stuff away from the center of rotation.
inertia takes care of that part.
Not if the frame of reference is the rotating system. ;)
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You mean centripital force. There's no such thing as centrifugal force.
:P
There's no such thing as either. You're merely experiencing conservation of momentum really. :p
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No, no, he most definitely means centrifugal since a centripetal force would by no means force stuff away from the center of rotation.
inertia takes care of that part.
Not if the frame of reference is the rotating system. ;)
well then you wouldn't be moving, and there's still no force :P
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No, no, he most definitely means centrifugal since a centripetal force would by no means force stuff away from the center of rotation.
inertia takes care of that part.
Not if the frame of reference is the rotating system. ;)
well then you wouldn't be moving, and there's still no force :P
Actually it'd be an accelerating reference frame and would thus perceive a gravitational field permeating the entire universe, or so I believe. It's not an IRF.
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i was going to post that, but then realized if it's merely rotating at a constant rate about its origin, it should still be inertial... i think. :nervous:
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i was going to post that, but then realized if it's merely rotating at a constant rate about its origin, it should still be inertial... i think. :nervous:
No, I think it'd be accelerating.
Not sure, not good with GR.
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rotating about itself wouldn't require a force. if you set something spinning up in space, it will keep spinning. that would make it inertial wouldn't it?
now if it's rotating about a point outside of itself, that would certainly not be inertial.
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rotating about itself wouldn't require a force. if you set something spinning up in space, it will keep spinning. that would make it inertial wouldn't it?
now if it's rotating about a point outside of itself, that would certainly not be inertial.
But what about frame dragging and ****?
This is way outside my comfortable knowledge.
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i don't know what frame dragging is. :nervous:
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On a related note, I just found out that frame dragging is not, in fact, what happens when you don't have vsync on.
well then you wouldn't be moving, and there's still no force :P
You wouldn't be moving inside the rotating reference frame, but you would feel the effects of inertia (centrifugal force to something inside the rotating frame).
Inertia and centrifugal force (synonyms in this context): the outward force an object in a rotating frame of reference experiences. Action-reaction pair to the centripetal force.
Centripetal force: The inward force on an object in a rotating reference frame, which is the reason it is rotating in the first place.
The distinction between inertia and centrifugal force seems like a pointless semantics battle to me.
Actually it'd be an accelerating reference frame and would thus perceive a gravitational field permeating the entire universe, or so I believe. It's not an IRF.
That's true, but... honestly if you're in a reference frame that's rotating at those speeds you have bigger problems :P
An IRF experiences no fictitious forces. Centrifugal force is a fictitious force. QED. There is, in fact, also frame dragging to consider but I've had enough Wikipedia for the moment. Back to teh code... >.>
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i don't know what frame dragging is. :nervous:
Okay, y'know how spacetime is "curved" in the presence of a massive object? Rotating objects do something similar to spacetime -- they drag it around like a whirlpool.
Black holes are the classic example of this -- there is a region of space around a rotating black hole's event horizon where it is impossible to maintain your radial position because space is being whirled around faster than light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame-dragging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame-dragging)
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To be fair, you probably have to sign one of those to even go on Wheel. Of. FORTUUUUUNEEE!!!!
For signing one of those things for wheel of fortune, it's probably more based on the money winnings you get from the show than anything else. Maybe a little bit for those who get vertigo and motion sickness.