#3 - There's a reason why we practice things, and this is it right here. Imagine doing that on the day of the race (I'm sure there's video of that happening too!)
#4 - I hope that video was emailed to the "we hire safe an courteous drivers!" guys and the guy was fired. And hopefully to the police too, 'cause that deserves a "careless driving" citation if anything does.
#8 - This is why front wheel vehicles are dangerous. Overcorrect and it's over (unless you're a "professional race driver" level of skill and experience.) Been there, done that, except I fishtailed twice (instead of once) before completely losing control, and was hit by oncoming traffic. Unlike this guy who got very, very lucky. Both to miss everyone AND to end up facing the right way (I didn't end up upside down in the ditch, but it was close, and one of the other vehicles involved did.)
He flinched when he noticed the car in the lane he was moving into, and jerked the steering wheel. It was all over from there.
#1 yeah. We can cut bronze and hardened steel with water and garnet, but the ancient Egyptians definitely couldn't cut granite and sandstone with copper and silica as an abrasive. Every time some chucklehead on the 'net spouts "you can't cut hard stone with copper tools!!" I'm like...yeah...and you can't cut AR500 with water and powdered abrasive, either.
I was going to mention that water jets use garnet but you beat me to it. In my work in Aerospace we've used water jets on chrome vanadium steel and D6AC. The metal in that padlock is like butter to a water jet.
Many interesting YT videos on how ancient civilizations may have used chemical methods to soften stone and make it moldable or mixed ingredients that hardened into stone- search "geopolymers" and "natron theory"-
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#8 Dude! Lane change isn’t that hard. Just signal and slide over, no need for all the theatrics.
ReplyDelete#3 - There's a reason why we practice things, and this is it right here. Imagine doing that on the day of the race (I'm sure there's video of that happening too!)
ReplyDelete#4 - I hope that video was emailed to the "we hire safe an courteous drivers!" guys and the guy was fired. And hopefully to the police too, 'cause that deserves a "careless driving" citation if anything does.
#8 - This is why front wheel vehicles are dangerous. Overcorrect and it's over (unless you're a "professional race driver" level of skill and experience.) Been there, done that, except I fishtailed twice (instead of once) before completely losing control, and was hit by oncoming traffic. Unlike this guy who got very, very lucky. Both to miss everyone AND to end up facing the right way (I didn't end up upside down in the ditch, but it was close, and one of the other vehicles involved did.)
He flinched when he noticed the car in the lane he was moving into, and jerked the steering wheel. It was all over from there.
John G
#1 yeah. We can cut bronze and hardened steel with water and garnet, but the ancient Egyptians definitely couldn't cut granite and sandstone with copper and silica as an abrasive. Every time some chucklehead on the 'net spouts "you can't cut hard stone with copper tools!!" I'm like...yeah...and you can't cut AR500 with water and powdered abrasive, either.
ReplyDeleteAre you suggesting the ancient Egyptians had high pressure water cutting tools? That’s a bold statement Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for him.
DeleteI was going to mention that water jets use garnet but you beat me to it. In my work in Aerospace we've used water jets on chrome vanadium steel and D6AC. The metal in that padlock is like butter to a water jet.
DeleteMany interesting YT videos on how ancient civilizations may have used chemical methods to soften stone and make it moldable or mixed ingredients that hardened into stone- search "geopolymers" and "natron theory"-
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