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Your Daily Science Dose
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ThePiombino
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I remember my HS buses having seat belts. Weird.
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I remember some buses having seat belts in Cali. This was around 2001ish
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Bishop2b5
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This seems hard to believe now, but up until the time I was a teenager, it was very common for high school students to be school bus drivers. I can't imagine turning a bus full of kids over to an inexperienced 17-year-old driver, but it was common until the 70's.
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....utter bunk.
Writer acts like an apologist for the school systems, who cannot afford to put seat belts in their buses and hope not to face the liabilities of injury by such excuses. This as usual is money not science nor true care, as characterizes America.
Galileo's laws of motion ensure that a moving body will tend to stay in its current motion unless acted upon by an opposing force. thus, when the bus collides with anything powerful enough to suddenly stop it, the other contained objects [the kids] will continue to go forward until they are opposed by a force which brings their momentum to a sudden stop.
Bus passengers survive this seatbelt-less situation by the fact that the drivers are usually safer than average, and the bus is rarely going very fast, and it is so heavy that it smashes the smaller cars thus coming to a less violent stop. A smash-up with a heavy object like a bus with a more fragile object like a car is a type of "inelastic collision" wherein the crunching up of the car gradually dissipates the momentum of the bus to allow interior objects a less sudden termination of velocity.
That happy set of circumstances however does not cover all situations, and since we're dealing with kids here, the risk-taking economically-forced status of the school bus system remains.
This guy is so immature that he probably thinks he's writing about something funny.
Writer acts like an apologist for the school systems, who cannot afford to put seat belts in their buses and hope not to face the liabilities of injury by such excuses. This as usual is money not science nor true care, as characterizes America.
Galileo's laws of motion ensure that a moving body will tend to stay in its current motion unless acted upon by an opposing force. thus, when the bus collides with anything powerful enough to suddenly stop it, the other contained objects [the kids] will continue to go forward until they are opposed by a force which brings their momentum to a sudden stop.
Bus passengers survive this seatbelt-less situation by the fact that the drivers are usually safer than average, and the bus is rarely going very fast, and it is so heavy that it smashes the smaller cars thus coming to a less violent stop. A smash-up with a heavy object like a bus with a more fragile object like a car is a type of "inelastic collision" wherein the crunching up of the car gradually dissipates the momentum of the bus to allow interior objects a less sudden termination of velocity.
That happy set of circumstances however does not cover all situations, and since we're dealing with kids here, the risk-taking economically-forced status of the school bus system remains.
This guy is so immature that he probably thinks he's writing about something funny.
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And remember, the Sun revolves around the Earth. Science!
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Accurate and fitting response, especially considering I've always pictured OMM to look something genius like this:
Just needs a pigskin helmet photoshopped....
Old Man Mike
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.... never could grow a decent beard.
.... and, yes, I've given answers like that to people like Richard Shenanigan. They'll fall for anything [as long as it's spelled correctly.]
.... note proper use of apostrophes.
.... and, hey, I got your termination of velocity, right here.
.... and, yes, I've given answers like that to people like Richard Shenanigan. They'll fall for anything [as long as it's spelled correctly.]
.... note proper use of apostrophes.
.... and, hey, I got your termination of velocity, right here.
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This is BS. I was in a bus accident about 5 years ago and while no one died, many people broke bones and one guy is now paralyzed from the neck down. Actually, if there would have been seat belts the injuries would have been much less because people ended up flying over their seats and piling up on each other.
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... what does an indecent beard look like?
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... check the mirror.
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... let those who have ears hear.
... I had a proper Grammar AND a proper Grampa.
... exactly.
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This seems hard to believe now, but up until the time I was a teenager, it was very common for high school students to be school bus drivers. I can't imagine turning a bus full of kids over to an inexperienced 17-year-old driver, but it was common until the 70's.
That's awesome!
I can imagine:
dshans was prolly the one driver though that didn't smoke, let the other kids smoke, or somehow work out an "arrangement" with the local honeys on his route.
Bogs chastised his fellow schoolmates in Gaelic.
And instead of stripping, this was (and still is) how Beau put himself through school.
Acamp had a segregated bus-- Asian girls in the front...everybody else in the back.
Rackem blasted Creed cassettes non-stop.
NDSean told everyone how great Blake Barnett was.
And this was Wooly:
