7.7 m/s2 or close to 0.8 g, seems incredible. Did I make a mistake? The location is from a Google News link to the NYT.
Posted on 07/25/2013 3:21:25 AM PDT by markomalley
Wow
ETA and AQ are two entirely different groups.
Maybe the engineer tried to brake to late? If you have ever pulled a trailer it tends to keep moving even you want to stop. Looks like too fast on the curve and too late to slow down.
Centrifugal force does not discriminate nor angular velocity. Take your pick to parse.
I know. But somehow, the ruling government thought it would be more PC to blame ETA for the Madrid train bombings which turned out to be AQ. Who do you suppose gave them that idea?
Neither driver could slow down hte train, it seems. They had time to report teh looming accident and the cause.
Was this “Super-Dooper, Extra-Modern, High Speed Train” computer controlled?
If so, could the crash have been the result of:
1. Program error.
2. Operator error.
3. Malware
Good point.
When I was a kid we had a different version, the second verse started somethinglike:
He was goin’ down the hill makin’ ninety miles an hour
When the chain on his bicycle broke
They found him in the grass....
I’ll leave the rest to your imagination.
People can be amazingly foolish regarding transportation, I read an essay once that was written by some professor who thought he was demonstrating his brilliance when he said that no product that people really needed required advertising. He claimed that cars only needed to be advertised because, “No one needs a car”. I thought it demonstrated an astounding ignorance of reality in modern America to think that people who work for very low wages spend large portions of their meager income to buy used cars that they really have no need for. I figured such an article could only be written by someone who has spent his entire life living in the inner part of some huge city. It makes no more sense than saying that people didn’t need horses or mules in 1850.
There’s a lot of local debate about bike lanes in the county. Its amazing how many urban liberals really believe that bicycles are”the future of transportation”.
Tickled to death by a spoke
Kingston Trio?
Slightly different but there was a spoke involved 8>)
7.7 m/s2 or close to 0.8 g, seems incredible. Did I make a mistake? The location is from a Google News link to the NYT.
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