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[RedKing]

Yeah, bullet train is problematic for calculating momentum transfer because of the angled surface of the engine. Freight train has more perpendicularity (which is a word I will probably never have cause to use again in my lifetime).

[Bauglir]

perpendicularity (which is a word I will probably never have cause to use again in my lifetime).

This belongs in the sad thread, for it's an excellent word.

[MonkeyHead]

Not having chekced it myself yet, does this weeks "What If?" Treat the bullet/train interaction as an elastic or inelastic collision?

[The Darkling Wolf]

I think he accounts for air resistance and suchlike

[MonkeyHead]

Ah, yess, I see *reads*...

BB rounds = elastic.

AK rounds = inelastic/deformities.

It similar to a problem I set my own students - how many flies colliding with a car windshield would it take to bring the car to rest? The answer is normally a lot.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Would you have accepted "A fuckload" as a valid answer?

[Mego]

Yeah, bullet train is problematic for calculating momentum transfer because of the angled surface of the engine. Freight train has more perpendicularity (which is a word I will probably never have cause to use again in my lifetime).

And now use it in every sentence, without it being out of place. Gogogo!

[MonkeyHead]

If one were to define a fuckload, and we could use it as a sort of standardised unit of measurement (like "the Belgium"), yes, I would.

[Bauglir]

To be more specific, I believe it's "5 metric fucktons", also known as 1 Boatmurdered Pantry. You'd be surprised how often that unit crops up in physics involving weapons, death, geology and vast quantities of at least 2.

[Dutchling]

Would you have accepted "A fuckload" as a valid answer?

To avoid confusion, I'd prefer you to use 'A metric fuckload'.

[MaximumZero]

Would you have accepted "A fuckload" as a valid answer?

To avoid confusion, I'd prefer you to use 'A metric fuckload'.

Seriously, no one uses the imperial fuckload. The metric is 1.7 more fuckloads than the imperial anyway.

[Simmura McCrea]

Would you have accepted "A fuckload" as a valid answer?

To avoid confusion, I'd prefer you to use 'A metric fuckload'.

Seriously, no one uses the imperial fuckload. The metric is 1.7 more fuckloads than the imperial.

Is the bolded fuckload a metric or imperial fuckload? Maths would imply imperial, but I want to be sure.

[MaximumZero]

Imperial, of course.

[MonkeyHead]

I hereby decree that the mass of the Earth is one MegaFuckload, giving us a nice conversion factor.

[RedKing]

Would you have accepted "A fuckload" as a valid answer?

To avoid confusion, I'd prefer you to use 'A metric fuckload'.

Seriously, no one uses the imperial fuckload. The metric is 1.7 more fuckloads than the imperial anyway.

I find your lack of faith in the Imperial fuckload....disturbing.