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This Man Built a V8 Monowheel.. Then Crashed It.
Despite the eye-grabbing headline, he was not seriously injured in the crash. The top comment on this site it dead-on though:
"How many times has this concept been tried, and failed? These guys (monowheel enthusiasts) always seem to have a good grasp of engineering, but damn little understanding of physics.
A single wheeled machine will never be able to accelerate as hard as a two wheeled machine, nor brake as hard (the only torque that acts to counteract the acceleration/braking forces is caused by gravity acting on the occupant and power system - if these are not sufficient, the rider begins to roll with the wheel, with all the resultant loss of control). Emergency braking is out of the question.
A single wheel can never turn as well a two wheeled vehicle - the one wheel is very stable, and resists leaning. Without any way to introduce a force that will force this big gyroscope to precess (which counter-steering does in a motorcycle), quick turns are impossible. Slight turns can be accomplished by shifting the weight of the occupant/engine to the side, or by the rider dragging his feet - not so safe, as we see in the video.
I fail to see what, if any, advantage this arrangement has that keeps bringing people back to it. Poor acceleration, poor braking, slow turns, and a need to drag your feet through intersections - now that I think of it, this would probably appeal to a lot of the cruiser crowd as is."
Killer Whale Attacks Great White
Stranger still, after a Killer Whale killed another Great White at the same location in 2000, one tagged Great White, "Tipfin" behaved in an unusual manner: "On the hour of the attack, Tipfin abruptly dropped to 500 meters and headed west... He swam all the way to Hawaii."
http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueid=70&articleid=991
Hardest Hockey Shot EVER!
If that kind of warning is necessary, how did our species even make it out of Africa? Maybe we need to institute some kind of artificial selection to make sure that those who actually think that could happen in the Olympics stop breeding.
A House Divided
Frankie Boyle - Jokes that cost him his Mock of the Week job
This guy has more upper body strength than you
The million dollar question is, does he have a strong lower body too?
If not than hes only half as strong as a person who works their lower body all day.
More importantly, IMO, is whether he has strong cardio as well. The problem with body builders sometimes is that they may be able to lift obscene amounts of weight but if they ran a mile their heart would explode.
Still, that was very impressive.
Truther Proves 9/11 was an inside job with a $20 bill
A clever bar trick doesn't discount the fact that 9/11 was an inside job.
Nope, it's the evidence that proves it wasn't an inside job.
Obama Bows to Japanese Emperor Akihito
Truther Proves 9/11 was an inside job with a $20 bill
Who do they think did this, The Riddler?
P.S. September 11 was/is not New Years Day on the Egyptian calendar. Just more verbal diarrhea coming out of this guy's mouth.
Ferrari F430 Scuderia vs. Ducati Desmosedici.
It's a nice car, but the host's ending point stands. A motorcycle's power to weight ratio is such that a car can't effectively compete with a bike when it comes to pure acceleration. That means, even if a car handles a corner better, the bike regains its lost speed significantly faster. Any track that favors acceleration is going to be dominated by a bike.
Bellamy salute and the Pledge of Allegiance
Jacques-Louis David's painting "The Oath of the Horatii" associated the salute with classical Rome and, as Mussolini was attempting to produce a new Roman Empire, his fascists adopted what they thought was the Roman salute.
Don't you just love her accent? There's something about it
Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry Debate Catholics
Firstly, your comment that, "accusing Catholics anti-Semitic is beyond ridiculous" is among the least intelligent responses I have seen on VideoSift.
Archbishop Robert Runcie asserts that: "Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed...because for centuries Christians have held Jews collectively responsible for the death of Jesus. On Good Friday Jews, have in times past, cowered behind locked doors with fear of a Christian mob seeking 'revenge' for deicide. Without the poisoning of Christian minds through the centuries, the holocaust is unthinkable." Christian antisemitism is well documented. In fact, the main purpose of the Inquisitions (particularly the Spanish Inquisition) was to forcefully convert or kill Jews.
Then you ask, "And what's this about "torturing" Galileo?" Galileo was put on trial and threatened with torture and death by the inquisition for asserting that the Earth went around the Sun. His partner was burned at the stake for the same assertion. He was shown the implements of torture that would be used on him if he did not recant. So he did. And he spent the rest of his life under house-arrest. The Church tortured and killed to stop the furthering of scientific knowledge.
With regards to Fry, as a homosexual he is considered sinful. His homosexual temptation is considered "disordered", thus not sinful, but his acting on those temptations are considered sinful. This makes him, in the eyes of the Catholic Church, in a state of mortal sin (in direct contradiction to what you said).
Those against Catholicism in this debate won it easily. They didn't use lies or falsehoods, just showed how reprehensible the Catholic Church really is.