>> ^CaptainPlanet:

as maestro has astutely pointed out, you've errantly assumed this truck can full stop in zero time. Hurp de durp de durpidy pthhhhhhhhhhh
>> ^Jinx:
>> ^maestro156:
Seems likely to me that he'd be able to brake faster than the truck could break, and if the truck started pulling too far away leaving him exposed, he could coast on the shoulder till he can safely stop.
I'm not saying I would do this, but it doesn't seem all that dangerous. I guess the one thing to worry about would be road debris, since he can't see it coming.

I dont think its about who can stop the fastest, its about how fast you can start stopping.
He's about half a metre away from the back of that truck. He's doing 90kph. Human reaction time is about .2 of a second. Lets do the maths.
90,000m/3600s = 25m/s
25m/s 0.2s = 5m
He's going to travel 5 metres before he even starts slowing down. If that truck has to brake hard he will go into the back of it. Granted, his speed relative to the truck won't be very high but it would prolly be enough to send him arse over tit. at close to 90kph. and he aint exactly in leathers.
I'm not even sure he could stop faster than the truck. Sure, the truck is heavier, but it has 4 wheels, big thick tyres and a lower centre of gravity. Lets do the maths.
The coefficient of friction between road bike tyres and average russian tarmac is...no I kid.


No I didn't? I just assumed the truck would slow enough that he could go into the back of it. So ok, the truck travels 4.8ms, the bike travels 5m. He's now 30cms from the back of the truck, and only now is he gonna start braking. Assuming they decelerate about the same, and I'm not even sure you can stop faster than a truck on a bike, there is still a 3m/s difference in speed with 30cms of room between them. Like I said before, he won't be going very vast relative to the truck when he collides, but his wheels are still going to be spinning prty quickly and I'd guess that would be enough to put him on the pavement...or you know, the risk is large enough that I wouldn't want to try it.


And this is ignoring all the myriad other risks from travelling at 90kph blind. Maybe his attention is on somebody in a car with a video camera in the lane next to him, and suddenly his reaction to the truck braking is delayed...maybe a pothole appears under the truck. Or a puddle. I'd rather base jump than do that.

Yup, it's like what Douglas Adams said about the puddle of water in the pothole. "This is an interesting world I find myself in – an interesting hole I find myself in – fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!"

Fiddle dee dum,
a puddle of chum.
Too bad it was land locked,
the sharks couldn't come.

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>> ^oritteropo:

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Fixed and thanks.

>> ^jmd:

>> ^Duckman33:
Wow, now I know why I get tailgated so much if you all are serious that the camera guy wasn't tailgating. I was counting time between passing poles and it was most of the time anywhere from 1.5 to 2 seconds. There should be a 3 second gap when following someone to allow for safe stopping distance

Lol, 2 seconds is a safe stoping distance.. 3 ask for someone to pull in front of you.
Anyone who thinks this is tailgating.. spend some time in a pop. >1000 town


I've lived in four US cities with population over one million. From 38 seconds on (the bit of driving that triggered the anger from the lead driver) I would definitely call this tailgating. The camera is fairly wide-angle, as well, so I think the cars are closer than they appear.

Regardless, the car with the camera _barely_ stopped in time, and the lead driver could have had a legitimate reason to need to slow down. All it would take is one puddle, icy patch, or slightly less effective brakes for this to have been an accident.

Why drive like a douche and risk injury to yourself an others when you can slow down by _one freaking second_ instead?

What the hell? I'm in the US military, and we never had anything near this awesome. Once Puddle Of Mud came, but who wants to see them?

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I like that picture you have up above. It reminds me once when I was a kid it rained that hard and we had an un-even gravel drive way so it had some pretty big puddles, while it rained like that my brother, cousin and I went into the puddles and swam like they were lakes. Got some funny pictures of it, of which I am not sure exist anymore.

>> ^Trancecoach:


In other words, where are all the people who passed out in puddles of vomit on the floor of the port-o-potty?


I went to a DoMakeSayThink concert and this dude projectile vomited all over the floor, and a lil' bit on to the girl's dress who happened to be in front of him.

It happened earlier on in the concert, and people kept walking into it because it was the only open space on the floor, and then, then they would slowly smell and realize...

the horror of what they stood within.

needless to say I was entertained by both the music and the ongoing horror show.

If this "movie" is going to show only the good and positive side of the music festival scene, then it's going to lose some of its audience. Regardless of how good the music is, it's going to make it seem like an amusement park, and not the drug-fueled, psychosexual initiation that it could be.

In other words, where are all the people who passed out in puddles of vomit on the floor of the port-o-potty?

"im good "

TROOPER ! FAWKIN TROOPER.

I have done that multiple times... never into water, my favorite is when I went over the handle bars when i thought the water puddle was shallow, so I was hopping my front end and went to make a splash, the water was deep ! a splash and a kerplunk as I flipped over the bars.

What's the scale of that puddle of liquid?

>> ^A10anis:

Unless it is for some breeding programme to save a species, i dislike zoos intensely. The same applies to caged birds, or fish in bowls. Many of these animals exhibit psychotic behaviour -the bears that rock from side to side for example. We have wonderful nature programmes, so what need for captive animals?


It's not the idea of a zoo that displeases me, it's more the lack of space they usually exhibit. They should make em more park-like and put up signs that you may not necessarily see the animal immediately.