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Bike vs Train?

I like how the headlights are still on.
 
Having grown up in Fostoria OH I know that it does'nt take much to derail a train.

All it takes is a little kid's bicycle... It was left on the tracks, a switch couldn't close, train couldn't stop, major derailment into the local grain elavators and the dynamite factory...

There's accidents like that everyday that you never hear about...
 
Valgar's got the perfect idea for Shia Ledouche's next movie.
 
But what if Flava man does it?
 
We've all seen the pictures of the motorcyclist who hit the truck. Trains are a lot heavier than a truck. Short of being shot out of a howitzer, I doubt the bike would make much of an impact.

I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet.

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Bike weighing 500 pounds.
Passenger weighing 200 pounds.
Bike going at 250mph.

Bike hits train, and disinigrates.

All people aboard the train feel nothing and all damage to train can be easily buffed out with a single diaper wipe.



If you wanna derail a train, you put a penny on the tracks. :laughing
 
depends if both had the headlights on....
 
SilverSliver said:
WRONG^2, smarty-pants. :twofinger
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In a perfectly ideal collision that suspends thermodynamics and all observed physical phenomena? What is the point of conjecturing about a universe that doesn't exist, which shares some of our physics (the parts you understand) but not others (the parts you apparently do not)?

Momentum is conserved, why not just work it out that way?

Next you'll be telling us how to predict horse races, assuming spherical liquid horses racing in a vacuum.
 
I'm thinking one parsec past Ludicrous speed, into plaid. :later

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Aluisious said:
In a perfectly ideal collision that suspends thermodynamics and all observed physical phenomena? What is the point of conjecturing about a universe that doesn't exist, which shares some of our physics (the parts you understand) but not others (the parts you apparently do not)?

Momentum is conserved, why not just work it out that way?

Next you'll be telling us how to predict horse races, assuming spherical liquid horses racing in a vacuum.
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Dude... Ever heard of an elastic collision? Look it up and edumacate yourself. I made the approximation (admittedly poor, given the severe weight differences) that the motorcycle's final velocity was negligible, but I wasn't taking things all that seriously. If you want to work it out "properly", go right ahead. After four times the work, you might find that I was a couple orders of magnitude off, but who really cares? Any number you come up will be so far from a "real world" answer so as to be completely meaningless - but if it keeps your panties untwisted, go for it. :party
 
Aluisious said:
In a perfectly ideal collision that suspends thermodynamics and all observed physical phenomena? What is the point of conjecturing about a universe that doesn't exist, which shares some of our physics (the parts you understand) but not others (the parts you apparently do not)?
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Only way to truly answer it is to try it.
I say go for one of the front wheels on the lightest.
If you get that car to derail it will of course be much
more mass than the moto and might cause the other
cars to derail, especially if you can do it going into
a tunnel or over a bridge.
First, tho, call me so I can come and get video!
I'm in, but no, you cannot borrow my bike!
 
Put it this way... If you can get something going fast enough, you could put a hole right through that train and probably knock it off the tracks at the same time.

The Large Hadron Collider - the particle accelerator that you might have recently heard about in Switzerland - gives us individual protons colliding with one another at speeds so high that they have the energy of freight trains slamming into one another.
 
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