• Gormadt
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    7 months ago

    A baby carrot

    It takes about the same force to bite through a baby carrot as it does to bite through a finger

    As long as the carrot is pretty close to the size of the finger you’re wishing to stimulate

    I wish I didn’t know that

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      7 months ago

      Having done my time as an Army medic, this is incorrect. It takes more force than that, but less than you might think. A good 25 kilos with some velocity behind it will easily sever a phalange. Up it to 50 or 80 kilos and you can claim an arm or shin. Mass is the real killer. I’ve seen a vehicle at comically slow speed absolutely yeet someone because it had several tons of momentum behind it.

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        7 months ago

        Casual readers might remember a recent very low-speed collision that nonetheless caused a catastrophic failure due to the tens of thousands of tons of weight. The MV Dali vs. the Francis Scott Key Bridge, if you didn’t guess. It struck the bridge at about 8 mph.

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      7 months ago

      I wish I didn’t read that, and then read it again repeatedly trying to process what I just read. Lol. I’m sorry.