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joannaardway
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Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:31 pm
Pilgrimman wrote:If this would never work, (I'm looking at you, joannaardway
) then just ignore this.
Slight problem. People seem to think that things like that can be "caught".
It's just spent a few feet accelerating at a thousand G or more. It's not going to stop cleanly in a few fractions of an inch.
Energy is Force * distance. If it has to stop in a thousandth of the distance, the force to do that will have to be 1000 times higher - which is going to do some heavy damage.
Novacastrian: How about use whatever the heck you can get your hands on?
frankrede: Well then I guess it won't matter when you decide to drink bleach because your out of kool-aid.
...I'm sorry, but that made my year.
