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..and then the bus brakes.
I'll tell you what happens.
You accelerate much faster than you've ever accelerated before and hit dash hard and flat.
Is it okay to laugh at a childs misfortune?
What you need is a treadmill running backwards down the aisle.
Is it okay to laugh at a childs misfortune?
Yes, yes it is.
I'm laughing and I didn't even see it.
Is it okay to laugh at a childs misfortune?
There are whole TV programmes dedicated to this.
You post in the wrong forum 😉
Were you the kid? Are you concussed?
Good practical physics lesson, right there.....!
Watching others get injured in comedy fashion is one of life’s simplest pleasures. Always guaranteed to get a laugh from me.
You accelerate…
No you don't 😉
What is wrong with you? You heathen, you're not wired right
How on earth were you able to stifle your laugh? I would have let out a full blown belly laugh
Saw similar a few years ago. 4-5 yr old refused to sit down, was creating and generally being a bit of a shit. Bus had to slam on, the kid pretty much took off...
He sat quietly after that.
Forget a scooter in a bus - that's old skool.
How about a drone in a van?
I find joy in watching dozens of 4wheeled suitcases dissappear to the rear of the carriage on the Piccadilly Line as it accelerates out of Heathrow. The owners usually recover them and sit down again just in time for the suitcases to head to the front of the carriage as it slows in to Hatton Cross.
No you don’t
Well you do in most frames of reference. I guess you can choose one where you don't if you want to be pedantic though 🙂
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Depending on your frame of reference, you might do....
I've done something similar, at school once wacked the treadmill on full blast, cue dipping foot onto belt and fliiiiiiiiiing, crash wallllop over the banister onto ground floor of sports hall.
Quality acrobatics even if I say so myself. 😀
It might ‘appear’ that you accelerate, but you don’t.
Someone call Albert Einstein, tell him a thought experiment is needed.
It might ‘appear’ that you accelerate, but you don’t.
Relative to the dash he did.
Everything is relative the dash being the most so in this instance.
His acceleration to stop curve was a gentle incline culminating in a vertical spike.
Please please please try and get the CCTV footage from the bus company :). Claim you are doing a safety course for kiddies on scooters or something 🙂
Well you do in most frames of reference. I guess you can choose one where you don’t if you want to be pedantic though
Well, any frame of reference in which the boy on the scooter accelerates also involves the braking bus to cause the entire planet to accelerate at the same rate.
I'm sure we can all agree that such frames of reference are, while academically valid, unhelpfully abstract and a bit silly, and therefore pointing out their existence is even more pedantic than playfully pointing out what happens when the frame of reference is the planet we all live on 😉
You can word it like that, that’s why i said ‘appear’.
the bus slowed down.
the scooter slowed down more slowly at first, then matched the deceleration of the bus exactly. (When he hit the dash)
Edit: bez puts it more eloquently then i.
So if on the annual family holiday abroad as we were cruising at 30000ft and 450mph I threw my PITA son in the air would he slam into the cockpit door?....No! Shame.....
STW - sucking the fun out of anything to start a pedantic argument!
It sounds funny, I wish I had seen it, but my imagination is enough to make me chuckle.
So if on the annual family holiday abroad as we were cruising at 30000ft and 450mph I threw my PITA son in the air would he slam into the cockpit door?….No! Shame…..
But if you threw him the air just as the plane lost altitude he might slam in to the roof and then slam in to the floor as the plane stopped it's rapid descent.
To be fair I meant the original pedantry with humour, hence the smiley 🙂
Have this physics experiment by way of compensation:
To be fair I meant the original pedantry with humour
My attempt to point out your pedantry was meant in the same vein of course. Anyway, back to the thread.
Bez, that is wonderful.
Why don't they fit buses with conveyer belts that move exactly opposite the bus's acceleration so that passengers can just stand there without needing to hold on? It would save a lot of injuries, possibly deaths.
My attempt to point out your pedantry was meant in the same vein of course.
Indeed. And my retort to that was m…
And this repl…
What happens when the Pedantry Outrage Bus brakes come on? 😲
University away fixture:
Player A, whilst very drunk, decides to run down the centre of the minibus.
Minibus driver, Player B, sees the lumbering oaf in his rear view and instinctively brakes.
Player A bullseyes the windscreen from the inside.
Following conversation :
Player B : yeah, I think a stone must have hit it.
Windscreen repair guy : Funny that. Must have been a massive stone and from the the inside {askew glance to the concussed Player A sat on the kerb with claret coming out of his head}
Player B: er, yeah.
Windscreen repair guy : Couldn't give a s**t lads, I'm not saying anything, have a cracking night but look after that guy!
Physics can be a.b***h when drunk.
To be honest i was quite impressed. Held his nerve, held a steady line and mist definitely commited to it. He walked away quite happy no tears no nothing.
I'd have clipoed a seat or something and died.
Not joining in the physics discussion but one of the funniest things I saw was in lots of stop start traffic driving through tooting. Couple of youths of mopeds messing around, generally annoying car drivers by either wheeling along side them, swerving in and out of cars or accelerating up to the back of stationary ones and slamming the front brake on just in time to pop an endo in their rear view mirror. All whilst wearing the usual grey Adidas tracksuits.
Anyway, watch a lot of this out of my window when ones shoots past me and decided to pull a wheelie to show off to his mate. First problem is that he overcooks it and slides off the back of the seat, second problem is that his trackies catch on the front of the seat meaning they and his boxers stay put. He therefore lands both cheeks on the hot tarmac at about 25mph. Quickly stands up pretending nothing happened but all the car drivers are presented with his arse and two healthy rounds of gravel rash. That's gonna sting in the morning.
All before dash cams unfortunately but made my day
Going back about three decades, and to set the scene; Police personnel carriers were transit crew buses with slidey wooden inward facing bench seats, with the driver separated from the rear interior by a large alloy chequerplate bulkhead. Next bit of crucial information is that a local estate was half-finished, and had a road which linked the estate to the main road which was only half tarmacced. The other half was simply a hardcore and pothole infested track. There was a drop of 9" to a foot between the tarmac and the track. It was dark, and it was raining.
We had attended a report of a disturbance and made an arrest of a woman, well known in the estate for acts of extreme violence. She had been breaking various windows and cars and had assaulted several neighbours.. She was extremely drunk, and built like a loose-head prop. It took several of us to restrain and cuff her (this was in the days before incapacitants, batons, protective clothing or anything else that might have helped us...) and eventually we managed to persuade her into the back of the van. As we drove away, she stood up and I suggested she might be better off sitting down as the driver, not knowing the area well, had turned left towards the bumpy track. She took an instant dislike to this bit of advice and lurched towards me, mouth open, snarling and trying to bite me. Just as she was about to make contact, the transit dropped down the divide between the road and the track. and the driver panicked and slammed all on. Physics will always win in the end, and she was propelled head first into the bulkhead from several feet away.
The sergeant who had to attend and complete the Duty RTA report was initially sceptical as to the veracity of our account, but when he saw the damage to the bulkhead and the knackered front wheels of the transit, then read up on the casualty's previous records, decided we were all in fact telling the truth. Sympathy from the paramedics evaporated when she bit one of them as she was being treated.