Somewhere between “I want to play sci-fi video games all day,” “I want to invent everything ever,” and “I want to go on a 6-month backpacking trip in the wilderness.”
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“Damn, this is going to be a tough time for her. Better be sure to make zero effort to inject levity, or take her mind off it, or remind her that I’m also here to take responsibility for my part in this life we’re creating. She should remain 100% FOCUSED on how painful and humiliating this experience is for her. For the entire 20 hours she’s in labor. Just going to continuously remind her to keep breathing. So she knows how much I support her. Yup, that tracks.”
You must be a fun person to go through traumatic experiences with lol.
I was a bit surprised to hear “victims broke their necks instantly,” so I was hoping for someone else to do some math to back it up. Sigh…
Assuming ≈1000 ft/lbs to break a neck, and a 220 lb 6’10" person (so we can exclude the head to get ≈ 200 lb 6’), if it were possible for them to keep their body completely rigid, simply laying them horizontal, only supported by their head in a fixed orientation, would produce ≈ 600 ft/lbs (CoM 3’ from the moment) on the neck. Which is actually a surprising testament to the strength of the human neck.
The actual math for determining the torque on the neck from a worst-case scenario of a person jumping off a moving boat and hitting the water head-first with a stiff vertical posture is a bit above my pay grade. You’d have to calculate the resistance of the water over time as the head makes contact and starts deflecting, vs how much of that force gets transferred to the body and starts to rotate it towards the water.
But just conceptually, doesn’t make a ton of sense to me, as someone with a fair amount of experience with hitting the water at high speed; I used to barefoot water ski. Sucks hitting the water that fast, but the worst injury I’ve sustained is a ruptured ear drum.
Two clothing categories: Clothes that it matters if they’re wrinkled, and everything else. Category one goes on hangers, everything else goes in piles. If I’m out of GUFE (give a fuck energy), category one gets draped over a chair.
People that fold their underwear/socks/workout attire are the same as people who make their bed every day: Whyyyyyy bother.
It’s honestly infuriating to realize half of the people running the country rely on the moral principles of ancient religious texts, translated multiple times, to make policy decisions, while also taking every opportunity to bash the scientific process. Not sure which ones are more frightening, the ones who actually believe what they’re say, or those who don’t.