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Advance read of script!

🕑 Added 2020-03-31 21:00:03 +0000 UTC

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Brian O'Connell

Just saw the other video from Gizmoslip. I bet if you lined up the ppb closer to C/G you could have gotten closer to hitting the wall. It put spin on the phone so the energy didn't transfer to the phone right. Also, it was tilted back. you may have lost energy. As it pushes the phone back it pushes it into the table, reducing the spin it puts on it from hitting below CG. Hate to say i told you so. But.... I told you so. ;)

Olaf Doschke

I see you took in some of the input. It maybe was a good idea to not try to surge us from the ping pong cannon to the ISS, though ^Brandon phrased it good, as the inverse of a spaceship. What I think of now is you could put a stripe of tape on a balloon and puncture it there, it'll then neither explode nor deflate very quickly. The pressure difference is not as high, though.

Jeremy Baker

I appreciate your concern Brian. The 2015 crash really messed up my hair, and a few other things ... . In some ways I'm still recovering. You have an impressive 3-dimensional frame of thinking. I wonder if Dianna's familiarity with online media and science education might earn her some income by consulting/helping principals/teachers reach out to kids stuck at home? A radio show on my local public station recently interviewed some teachers/parents who were stumbling along with their efforts to employ remote media, trying to teach students, while addressing that not all kids have access to a computer/technology, as well as how to effectively reach groups who do have access. Vermont's State House is spinning up laws to help individuals, businesses, and I imagine programs for educational schemes to deal with the current challenges. Maybe she could offer her services/talents to help these teachers learn how to make videos and/or create educational content. I wouldn't know where to start, possibly calling a teacher, administrator or principal, there is no template to follow, people are being forced to change their methods and tools.

Brian O'Connell

Re: your crash. I'm happy you're OK! I hope this wasn't recent and you're well now. Accidents are a fickle thing. There are loads of factors that come into play that decide the outcome of a crash. Occupant positioning (i.e... gangsta lean? Hand position on wheel, leg positions, hip position), if you were belted, age/condition of car, speed of both vehicles, trajectory, offset of impact, etc. In most cases, imparting spin on the vehicle tends to make the occupants head miss the bag (depending on the vehicle and airbag). They do test for that. They call it the 40% offset. here's an overhead video of that test in a convertible so you can see the occupant better. https://youtu.be/6Nv5Qzia0-0 I can't say for 100% certainty that the spin helped you. There's a lot involved in the real world and i'm not a crash investigator. Sometimes it all boils down to just pure luck. What's important is you walked away. What's important is you keep yourself belted, and keep yourself seated / positioned properly. Be mindful of your surroundings in and out of the car. If you have junk in the rear passenger seats, probably best to put that junk in the trunk. It will fly forward in a crash. There's a whole lot of crazy out there and i just want you to be healthy and happy.

Jeremy Baker

Interesting reading, especially what happens in the space station if there is a small breach in the hull. Regarding how to survive a car accident, I often wonder if the spin of my car had something to do with the crash not being even worse, not that my injuries weren't bad, but I survived a head-on collision with a pickup truck while driving a smaller car (Saturn). My state (Vermont) has shut down the entire school system for the rest of the year, so kids/teens are stuck at home with their parents trying to figure out how to continue their education. This is an opportunity for people, like Dianna, who have experience making virtual media with educational content, to help the thousands of unprepared parents who are seeking help, as noted in a recent public radio show that discussed how to best serve kids stuck at home. Aside, sneezing isn't apparently one of the COVID-19 symptoms, and today's public radio brief covered that some tests speculate the virus can survive up to three hours in the air suspended in water droplets. A prior post by James Paige made issue with the lack of alarm within the content presented here, but I would argue that, with recent events, the educational disruption, for the education of tens of thousands of students, would be a higher priority to remedy.

Brian O'Connell

Re: your edit... I'm glad to help you with fizzixing the script. :)

Brian O'Connell

I concur w/ olaf. I'm not sure there's anything else I can contribute other than jokes at this point. (I left a few in there). You need anything else, I'm happy to help.

Olaf Doschke

It got crowded and I'm not even sure the main passages (green) you wanted to rewrite are all addressed. Still, it's time to take the lead back, Dianna, accept or reject and get to the next stage to continue from - with or without us.

Chris Wyma

When I was a kid, my cousin would cut the ends out of 5 steel soda cans and tape them together to made a tennis ball cannon. The bottom can would retain its steel bottom with a small hole to inject and light the flammable gas, usually lighter fluid. I knew someone who tried oxy-acetalyne, but that's crazy. Just thoughts on a tennis ball cannon if you wanted to try something bigger than a pingpong ball. 😬

Vic Habersmith

Thanks for the peek behind the scenes of your creative process. I especially liked the stage directions in the script. I didn't realize until now how much work it takes to create each of your videos.