 pyrrhios
Male, 30-39, Western US
 185 Posts
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 9:29:28 PM
That should inspire a few Darwin awards. |
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RVIsh
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
253 Posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:52:19 PM
Oh man, I didn't know they were making an Old Sassy Tree movie! Awesome. |
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 5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16885 Posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:34:58 PM
Wasn't this in a movie about young football players? iirc they did this at night, 4-5 of them. |
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deckstore
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
7 Posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 3:06:21 PM
CSX what moves you(r body along rough ground for miles with only one gallon of fuel.) |
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nettech98
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
833 Posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:57:51 PM
@crakrjak: a 6 to 10 foot piece of concrete is not going to flex. Same could be said of anything of short enough length. take a 6" diameter steel rod 6" long and try and flex it. Now make it 6'. Now make it 60'. Anything long enough will flex. And that is designed into skyscrapers. They are not one huge piece of concrete. Concrete has been around a long time. That is why building height was limited until they started using steel frames (which do flex).
As for vibration being only up and down, that would be like saying the train only pushes down on the tracks. Living next to a train track, I'm sure you know that there is random side to side motion, just like I'm sure you know that the conical shape of the wheels keeps the train from flying off the track. |
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 tedweird
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
309 Posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:14:13 AM
short train... |
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putzco
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
201 Posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 8:49:15 AM
There's a guy on line 2 for you. Calling about natural selection or somethin' |
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 Adi_Noor
Male, 18-29, Asia
191 Posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 8:11:07 AM
Its Fake!
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 s8tan
Male, 18-29, Europe
90 Posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:45:13 AM
Omg i would'nt count on the train not having some sort of thingey hanging down or sticking out, that could be very ugly. |
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 9000penguins
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
227 Posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 4:13:48 AM
I believe i would have simultaneously shiit and pissed myself, also he should be so lucky that the train wasnt that long. |
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 CrakrJak
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
14374 Posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 3:53:13 AM
nettech98: Concrete can and does bend, if it didn't the wind would've destroyed quite a lot of skyscrapers by now. Concrete also compresses, other wise it would be to fragile a material to build with.
The camera doesn't bounce 'randomly' because the weight of the cars above is is transferred through the bogie wheels evenly on each side.
Also the type of gravel used for train right-of-ways is a lot larger and heavier then the gravel used for roads.
Not to mention that the steel tires on the bogie wheels wear out and literally pound on the rails so hard they can be heard for over a mile away and have been known to set off car alarms. |
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 Ruk1aKuchiki
Female, 18-29, Western US
40 Posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:51:55 AM
side A: adrenalin
side B: someone pooped themselves.
which side will you be? |
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 epiphany101
Female, 30-39, Australia
480 Posts
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:40:41 AM
So not cool. Yeah, so he lived. But I feel very sorry for the poor driver who probably thought he'd just killed him. Some people are just idiots. |
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 SpoonFork
Male, 30-39, Western US
1280 Posts
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Monday, January 24, 2011 11:03:18 PM
brb |
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 s1cKs0uL
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
391 Posts
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Monday, January 24, 2011 10:24:38 PM
I bet that was a hell of an adrenalin rush >.< |
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 inyoueye
Male, 30-39, Western US
22 Posts
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Monday, January 24, 2011 10:22:50 PM
Douchebag...I'm going to watch it again, maybe it will get him this time. |
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 auburnjunky
Male, 30-39, Southern US
8666 Posts
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Monday, January 24, 2011 10:08:44 PM
"flying gravel cloud following trains around."
I would go out of my way to watch trains if this were the case. |
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nettech98
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
833 Posts
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Monday, January 24, 2011 9:20:11 PM
@crakrjack: concrete does not bend, it cracks. If the camera were bouncing, it would do so randomly, and the center of the picture would change. It only noticeably does so at the very end.
Regardless, any 'bouncing' would not cause a soft dead weight to rise up off the bed of the tracks. Proof of this would be why there's no flying gravel cloud following trains around. |
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auburnjunky
Male, 30-39, Southern US
8666 Posts
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Monday, January 24, 2011 9:13:48 PM
Of course you would say that. |
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 MrTwidget
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
746 Posts
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Monday, January 24, 2011 7:50:10 PM
@auburnjunky I don't even know how to reply to that. One of the worst retorts I have ever seen. |
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 TysonRP
Male, 13-17, Canada
314 Posts
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Monday, January 24, 2011 7:32:25 PM
I hope everyone knows that he was trying to kill himself :\ |
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 popsiclemyk
Male, 13-17, Western US
532 Posts
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Monday, January 24, 2011 7:10:31 PM
kewl way to go out |
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CrakrJak
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
14374 Posts
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Monday, January 24, 2011 6:06:36 PM
nettech98: I've lived near train tracks for several years, The rails bend from weight of the trains and the ties do flex as well (doesn't matter if they are concrete or wood).
A train, and it's cars, are a lot heavier than you think they are, and the camera is visibly bouncing. |
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 SmilinSam
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
3603 Posts
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Monday, January 24, 2011 5:53:32 PM
would just be really loud and windy, as long as you know that the clearance is high enough, wouldn't be that much of a risk. |
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 zombieland
Male, 18-29, Canada
420 Posts
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Monday, January 24, 2011 5:42:18 PM
i think i could hear the train stopping... |
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