• TrackenDaKracken
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    1 day ago

    I don’t think it should be allowed, but I wouldn’t complain if there were no incidents.

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      Unfortunately if the bus got into an accident, they’re half-ton freestanding projectiles inside a passenger cabin. People would probably die that wouldn’t have otherwise.

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        The bus was stopped the whole time. Statistically very unlikely to get in a crash.

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        20 hours ago

        Or if the horse started panicking.

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        So are some humans, what about luggage and other stuff? That logic could apply to anything. I had to take the bus because my vehicle battery is dead, and I’ve got a 20kg solid brick taking it to get a new one basically. That’s gonna do more to someone than a horse.

        • BlueBockser@programming.dev
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          How are you comparing a 500kg horse to a 20kg piece of luggage? That’s more than order of magnitude less, plus luggage doesn’t tend to be propped up high on legs.

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            Does the concept of surface area not exist to you?

            Getting crushed by a horse may be survivable, but a battery bouncing up and hitting your head isn’t going to be.

            Why would you think it would stay only on the floor? The horse would fall over likely and only take the feet out. So that’s not as dangerous in that situation either. But neither are the only possibility.

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            Yes that’s why it’s potentially less dangerous. Surface area. You may survive a horse flying at you at 50 km/h, but a battery will take your head clean off.

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              Surface area.

              Surface area has little to do with this equation, it’s the mass; a flying horse will have much more inertia behind it, even at lower speeds.

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                16 hours ago

                more inertia behind it

                And what do you think happens when that inertia has 5000x the surface area to disperse that energy….?

                Also, you seriously need explained the difference between something that is deformable and something that isn’t?

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                  Brother, a horse can kill you at zero MPH. It can fucking sit on you and you will die. You’re wrong, we’ve told you why, the horse wins, full stop.

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                    4 hours ago

                    All you’ve told anyone is how little you understand of even the simplest physics. Dropping a battery a few inches on your skull can kill you as well. What point do you think that was making lol?

                    There’s plenty of possibilities, focusing on one, while ignoring all the other details is just foolish as hell dude.