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Istari posted:I would've thought that dropping the bar would be the safest option if you can't complete a lift. The point of straps is that it lets you actually finish the lift instead of dropping the bar. Your legs are capable of lifting much more weight than your hands are capable of gripping.
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Ozz81 posted:Fake or not, that's pretty drat impressive - takes plenty of skill and practice not to die doing a staged stunt IIRC, that gif was made by picking up the cat on an empty road, and splicing in the traffic afterwards. The only "danger" involved is "you hosed up a backflip and broke your neck".
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chitoryu12 posted:Is it wrong to think that Le Pen's failure may have at least partially been due to people who were on the fence about electing a white nationalist "fascist lite" seeing what happened when America did it and not wanting to pull the same stunt? It's probably due to Macron basically coming out of nowhere and the Russians not having enough material to work with in order to sink him. See also that limp-dick 11th hour dump of hacked campaign files. The Trump thing probably helped though.
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And what's the big deal with the Eiffel tower? It's just a building that looks like a wonder in civ V?
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Working 30 hour weeks must be nice. (Alternatively: sorry you had 8 hour school days)
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Comptroll The Forums posted:Okay, what would happen if you had 100-meter sprinters start from a running treadmill instead of starting blocks? When they get up to full speed and you stop the treadmill, would they instantly accelerate and take off, fall flat on their face, or fly backwards? They wouldn't be in position to give their upper body any momentum, so it'd probably look pretty similar to a failed attempt at a backflip.
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I always figured actual special forces would lean more towards the "can run in full gear all day and still shoot straight" endurance side of things and less towards the "ton of muscles but starts getting gassed after ten minutes".
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Jun 27, 2018 14:47
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You could make that happen - just hold it out the window, let the pilot take off from your hand. The perfect looping seems like a bit of a tell though.
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A good 80% of heist films involve the protagonists getting away clean. But I guess you could put that down as bad guy defeating badder guy depending on your opinion of banks/casinos.
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Otteration posted:If we don't fully understand a thing, how is it possible to communicate it wrongly? Many many ways. The most obvious being taking one of the things you don't actually know and basing your entire presentation on it being unequivocally true, which is where a lot of these "I loving love science" descriptions tend to start.
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I'm going to use an analogy here - consider a rigid wheel standing on a flat road. How much pressure does it exert on the road? The contact area between them is zero - a line of zero width - so the pressure, being the force divided by the area, is ... infinite? In both this case, and the gravitational singularity case, the resolution is obvious once we remember that our model is a simplified version of reality - we take a look at those simplifications and recognise that they no longer apply. We construct a better model. And part of that process is searching for evidence that might provide insight into what's really going on. In the wheel example, we might look closer at the wheel-road interface to see how each of them deforms and provides a larger contact area. Any description of "white holes", that's being presented to people that don't already have an appreciation for the limits of our current understanding, should come with an acknowledgement that what our theories predict here is almost certainly wrong, that this is one area where our theory breaks down and produces total nonsense. The reason it's so interesting is because our current theory breaks down there! Knowing what really happens in that situation is the best way to identify what simplifications our theory implicitly makes, and come closer to the underlying truth. Presenting what our current, flawed, theory predicts as though it is the truth is misleading.
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