Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!greg
From: greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: The lawsuit of the year!
Message-ID: <452@xios.XIOS.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 17:49:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: xios.452
Posted: Thu Jan 28 12:49:58 1988
References: <4789@pyr.gatech.EDU> <2280001@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <8801221316.AA03356@wheatena>
Reply-To: greg@sdn.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Organization: XIOS Systems Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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People: Please don't forget that a train takes a **long** time to stop. 
For example, grain trains in the prairies need over 1 mile.  So, even if
the poor guy driving the train did see the idiot on the track and had
actually wanted to stop, all he could do is listen to the wheels get flat
spots as the train slides along the rails. 

Putting objects onto trains tracks to stop a train is not very smart at
all.  The mass of the train is far higher than even the mass of a mack
truck.  Stupidity does not override the physical laws of the universe. 

(Perhaps we could move this topic in sci.physics where we can all
merrily compute the actual stopping distance of the train given its
momentum and the coefficient of friction between its wheels and brakes
:-) ). 

-- 
Greg Franks             XIOS Systems Corporation, 1600 Carling Avenue,
(613) 725-5411          Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z 8R8
utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!greg    "There's so much to sea in Nova Scotia"