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In article <1992Aug31.235014.9871@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>, tony2@prefect.uucp (21131-gozdz) writes:
> In article <1992Aug31.195527.24174@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com> babb@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com (Scott Babb) writes:
>>Stupendous Man (demon@desire.wright.edu) wrote:
>>: 
>>: 	Train A is approaching at 20 mph.  (Ahhh, okay, 32 kph :).  Person B,
>>: with tensile capacity X stand in the path of train A.  Assuming Train A
>>: ignores
>>: idiot B, with what force will train A pulverize person B?  Train A masses 40
>>: metric tons.  Person B has standard human tensile strength and explodes like a
>>: baked potato(e) when mashed.
>>: 
>>: :)
>>: 
>>: 	Engineering physics was never this fun.
>>:                             
>>: Brett                                                      
>>
>>40 metric tons is a mildly overloaded tractor-trailer!  I've seen many
>>coal train cars that specify loaded weights in the 100 metric ton range.
>>
>>If idiot "B" were to stand in the path of one of our local coal trains,
>>the he would be attempting to defy a mass more in the 10000 metric ton
>>range.
>>
>>If you want to see *really* fun engineering physics, you should go
>>to a coal fired power plant.  Our local plant has a forklift-type
>>mechanism which grabs one of these 100 (+/-) metric ton coal cars
>>off the tracks, lifts it up over the plant input hopper, dumps the
>>coal into the hopper, and replaces the car on the tracks.  Impressive.
>>
>>--
>>   Lockheed Sanders may disagree so these are solely the opinions of:
>>             Scott L. Babb - babb@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com
>>              "We didn't inherit the Earth from our parents,
>>                   we are borrowing it from our children."
> 
> 
> WARNING! Leave Brett alone; He's an (in)famous
> instigator of various flame wars! Just look how he
> formulated his 'physics' problem...

	Eh?  I categorically deny any such involvement in the instigation of
any such inflammible conflicts!

	And what's wrong with the wording(e)?
:)

Brett                                                      
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