ReconRat

Anyone remember that video from Mexico where a car did that? edit: Here it is. They were filming an unauthorized TV commercial at the time. (Switched to shorter version) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyUaKuoCdqM

I've set a few off by mistake. Ok if I remember my pass code, not so good if I don't. I call MY police department and tell them what I did. They shut it off for me. Still freakin' embarrassing... especially if they laugh. edit: even better, I was working in a small warehouse, and didn't know the alarm AUTO SET by itself at 6pm. I hear this beeping at the keypad, ............ wut? Very loud alarm goes off. You have to run outside to be able to make the phone call...

flash mob on wheels.... barely....

It's Ruff Ryders! lol, not rough riders... Chapters all over the country. Got one in Columbus. StarBoyz got nuthin on these guys... And this is how they roll South Carolina (inland) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnXixdK1Je4&feature=related Pittsburgh PA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeFUKAfgbPg&feature=related Dallas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khC2GbkUDBM and Ruff Ryders Los Angeles FTMFW annual parade 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZhQsMUDerI&feature=related

I've put points back on. It takes all day or two, but it can turn out looking nice. edit: what no one ever tells you, is that you don't need a sharp point. The tip cuts better with a very small sharp radius at the tip. Like 1/32-1/16 radius or something.

40,000 pounds of beer on the guard rail 40,000 pounds of beer pass one around drink it down 39,999 pounds of beer

Yeah derringer... miss target at two feet... scarey though.

The orange bike (ZX-10) that shattered. Rider broke leg and arm. Nope, did not get up and walk away. That's him way down the road. He didn't get up. Camera bike just got knocked around and over on it's side with some damage.

Kegel, not Kiegle.... can't tell you how I know... edit: btw, there's an Android app for that...

Done

I found the long version of the video: edit: and now have 8 copies of both in a variety of formats.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCUVNX_83U8

Shoot... I should have copied that video. Dang... Working on it... edit: hrmm, video didn't cache... darn testing alt source: fixed it, sort of. Another copy. http://www.streetfire.net/video/kawasaki-zx10-hits-a-trailer-dead-on_2396540.htm

oh geez, I thought that was English and simplified... ok, here... this is surprisingly accurate when you hold your hand out: - Stretch your thumb and little finger as far from each other as you can. The span from tip to tip is about 25 degrees - Do the same with your index finger and little finger. The span is 15 degrees - Clench your fist at arms length, and hold it with the back of your hand facing you. The width is 10 degrees - Hold your three middle fingers together; they span about 5 degrees - The width of your little finger at arms length is 1 degree. so an arc second would be 1/3600 of the width that little finger. Or basically something we just can't see with the naked eye. A good optical telescope in steady skies can resolve down to about 1″ (one arcsecond). From One Minute Astronomer - Measuring The Sky

Accidents: There's lots of valid technical stuff on how motor vehicle accidents happen: Basic, is that 95% are driver/rider error, often combined with the other 5% of equipment failure, roadway design and poor roadway maintenance. The top equipment failures are brakes, tires and steering/suspension. The top roadway design hazards are visibility, road surfaces, traffic control devices, behavior control devices (speed bumps etc), traffic flow, roadway identification signs and weather. the top roadway poor maintenance items are debris, potholes, construction, and poor sanding/salting in Winter. Of the driver/rider errors, the top ten are: 10. Bad roads. Speed too high and control too low for conditions. 9. Bad weather. Speed too high and control too low for conditions. 8. Speeding/reckless driving. Over posted limit and aggressive behavior. 7. In-car distractions. (Or on-bike distractions.) 6. Drug use. 5. Drunken driving. 4. Rubber-necking. Eyeballing something and not watching the road. 3. Eating in the car. (Got nothing for this one on a bike...) 2. Changing CD/radio. 1. Cell phone / mobile use. (Include texting, computer, GPS, etc) So our noob will have to fit in a category of basically going too fast or distracted. Aggravated by lack of experience with the bike, his gear, the road he was on, and the group he was with. imho, he out-road his speed, and was simply not watching far enough ahead for his velocity. That, and he obtained his velocity more quickly than he expected. (Obvious is obvious.) Stopping distance is not linear, it's logarithmic. Doubling speed will more than double stopping distance. It's a minimum of a 4 to 1 ratio. Motorcycle stopping distances: 10mph = 4 feet 20mph = 15 feet 30mph = 33 feet 40mph = 59 feet 50mph = 93 feet 60mph = 134 feet 70mph = 182 feet 80mph = 238 feet 90mph = 300 feet So if you're doing 90 and can stop in 300 feet, and chop your velocity in half, you'll cut the stopping distance to 25% of what it was. At 45 it would be around 75 feet. If he was at 90mph and looking 60 mph ahead... he'd impact at around 30 mph. Or roughly a 30 foot error in stopping. Only two things really prevent this: more experience or a slower/smaller bike. Experienced riders also know that braking early and hard when things go wrong or weird is quite normal.

Minute of arc from Wikipedia 60 arcminute = 1 degree 60 arcsecond - 1 arcminute so, 1 arc second = 1/60 of 1/60 of 1/360 of the full circle of the sky horizon. or 4.8481368 µrad

Yeah....big asteroid hitting the Earth... Unlike the movies, where something slowly burns it's way down to the ground and people run away screaming... An incoming object could easily be doing mach 6 or greater, which would look more like a very wide laser beam shooting into the ground. The slow part, would be the shock wave traveling through the air, water, and ground coming toward your location. Yeah, slow... supersonic and capable of grinding up AND burning everything it hits. Water in an ocean hit by something like that, would not only vaporize, it would burn. So the shock wave would move as a very hot flame front, even igniting the air itself. Only going out as it ran out of oxygen taken from the air, ground, and water. The shock wave in the ground, like an earthquake, could be upwards of a 12 on the earthquake Richter scale. That would pulverize the ground and everything on the ground down to a depth of many feet, clear around the world. Twice or more.

There's seven (now nine) pages of comments and climbing on the YouTube website for this one. I like this one out of left field... btw, some of the riders probably saw him coming from behind, but obviously some did not. Nothing should ever overtake a bike rider from behind without the rider being aware of it. Rear view mirrors are your friends...

Yeah, he didn't get tossed that far. Probably got slowed down, almost. Trailer slowed the bike down, didn't it? Camera is a bit wide angle and makes it look farther.

Or why your first bike shouldn't be that badass liter bike. Or why you should pay attention and watch the road. Broken leg, if you watch close. Camera is on an 848 on a group ride. Noob is in back and hurrying to catch up on a straight. Camera goes down because the 848 rider got knocked down. edit: as near as I can tell, this was in South Carolina. edit: Ruff Ryders from South Carolina edit: add alt source for video: http://www.streetfire.net/video/kawasaki-zx10-hits-a-trailer-dead-on_2396540.htm banned by youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMTZNggZQsI&hd=1 from Todd Halterman's website

Excellent idea, or tablet. But Kindle is easier. Too late! lol... (not to worry)

lol, the majority of male readers just declared you the object of their quest... My Sister liked the sci-fi Honor Harrington series, by Weber. The new book on Marilyn Monroe comes to mind. (There's three or more new ones.) Maybe anything from the New York Times bestsellers. Lists: http://www.amazon.com/Books-that-women-will-love/lm/R2MGFSTHY3S484 http://shopping.aol.com/articles/2010/03/11/books-for-women/ http://womensbookreviews.com/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/good-books-for-woman_n_1387950.html#slide=817561

Probably was a dark object, like a common dirty asteroid. Not a comet or something that would leave a visible trail. Too small to have actually tracked from Earth with radar. Maybe quarter mile diameter? Or less? Might still find it on deep space radar records if anything was pointed that direction lately. There's a lot of stuff out there, it's easy to miss something even like that with the results it had.

btw, rough guess... if that had hit anywhere on Earth, most of us would be toast by now.

ImaGeek Amateur astronomer captured a fireball on Jupiter from something impacting the planet: http://georgeastro.weebly.com/jupiter.html http://www.universetoday.com/97294/viewing-alert-jupiter-may-have-been-impacted-by-a-fireball/ http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/wesley_jupimpact_color.jpg http://georgeastro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/4/13344093/jupiterimpact.jpg

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