Recent content by Bystander

Went down the "basal skull fracture"+"high G" rabbit hole, and have emerged bewitched, bothered, and "Bemildred" (Pogo's bats)...someone else can try making sense of it. This is the wiki/google drawback...what was once, is gone, and forever unrecoverable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_helmet Apocryphal.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11220776/ Lever length, any studies?

Not the mass, the length of the lever...it is visibly larger/longer. "Glancing" impacts/caroms break necks while protecting brains? Any actual statistics on neck sprain rates?

..., annddd the increased rotational/torsional moment as far as increase/reduction of neck injuries?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceballs Watching football (American) this weekend there are one or two people on maybe half(?) the teams sporting very oversize helmets; given rules on "targeting" and other "personal fouls," how long is "Darth Helmet" going to be allowed on the field? Will...

Just seen this a-noon (23 August 2026) on "The Weather Channel:" "Flash Drought."

"... of the anthology: There are No Atheists in Wormholes." Just googled it for zero results...think I'd actually buy it.

Apocrypha: "...the heat generated from nuclear fusion in the sun approximates that generated by an ordinary compost heap at similar density." i.e., not very many actual fusion events per unit time per unit volume; did the calculation in my head about the time the Pons-Fleischmann fuss...

Called her. She says she's never heard of 'gauge' rated fishing line Fishing line stretches; i.e., diameter reduces/expands as square root of delta "L." See "shock lines" in fishing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical_oxygen_demand

Bought it for Christopher Lloyd and his co-star Mary Steenburgen from Back to the Future(s), and Corey Feldman; it's a movie...not great, but not a stinker.

Waves and Beaches: The Dynamics of the Ocean Surface Book by Willard Bascom Waves and Beaches: The Dynamics of the Ocean Surface by Willard Bascom is a classic 1964 book that explains the science behind ocean waves and beach formation, originally stemming from his work on predicting surf for...

First(?) SS body; beat Elon.

Oh, now I get it. o:)