Posted on 12/18/2008 8:52:20 AM PST by decimon
I do, every freakin morining!
That comment is so obtuse that I don't know how to respond. Let me ask you: How many body parts have you extracted from wrecked vehicles...............
Of course, but speed makes the sudden stop more interesting.
How right you are.
Here in Washington, an initiative is being proposed to have all redlight and speed camera revenues go directly to a state fund instead of the local government. All the local politicians are crying their eyes out about it, claiming that then they won’t be able to “afford” these cameras, and would have to remove them.
This after claiming for years that they were completely for safety reasons only and the revenue wasn’t important.
Yeah, just like getting the seatbelt law passed they told us that it would “only” be a secondary offense, never a primary one. Now there are regular “Seat Belt Enforcement” patrols, loudly trumpeted by the local snooze media, out stopping and fining anyone they can find who doesn’t have the seatbelt on.
Pure revenue enhancement, plain and simple. As soon as you take away the revenue, the safety factor suddenly is forgotten.
Nobody has ever died from going to fast. I’ve only pulled a few bodies from car wrecks, but that will not change the basic laws of physics. I don’t give a damn how many you pulled out, you are wrong, and will always be if you keep defending that foolish statement.
Speed does not kill.
“” www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEZG14eGmR8 “”
An old favorite. :-)
You and I are traveling in cars.
I am traveling at 5MPH and hit a wall.
You (who don't believe in physics) hit a wall at 105MPH
Who is going home today..................[expletive deleted]!
Me - because although I was going 100 MPH, I chose not to hit the wall.
The choice of hitting the wall or not isn't a part of the simplistic equation presented to the poster who thinks that speed does not kill.
Well, technically, it's not the speed in and of itself that kills, but the rapid change in speed that occurs when the car and wall make contact. The greater the change in speed at impact, the greater the likelihood of death. After all, commercial airliners travel in excess of 500 mph, and the Apollo spacecraft traveled at around 25,000 mph as it hurled towards the moon. Of course, if either hits the proverbial immovable object at those speeds, death for the occupants would seem imminent.
The speed has nothing to do with it. It’s the rate of decelleration. I can travel all day long at 105 mph and be perfectly safe. If I experience rapid decelleration at some point, that’s when the trouble starts.
I absolutely believe in physics, it YOU who doesn’t (not don’t) UNDERSTAND physics.
LMAO at you losing it to the point you have to delete expletives. Maybe if you were a little smarter, you wouldnt’ be so angry.
Speed absolutely doesn’t kill, force does.
idiot
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