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Flintlocke893426 karma

Holy shit, am currently training as an engineering technician and there's a possibility I may end up doing repair/maintenance work like this. We have a teacher who has tons of stories like this.

Question one: Any idea how the belt sprang to life? Wasn't there a LOTO?

Question two: Are you a lefty or a righty? How do you imagine yourself adapting to life without the arm?

Flintlocke898 karma

I guess a benefit would be I live a far healthier life than I would without it

Being basically "forced" into leading a healthy lifestyle, does it piss you off when you see other people wrecking their shit by smoking, bingedrinking, eating absolute shite, etc?

Not a health nut myself btw, pretty sure my blood type is mayonnaise at the moment.

Flintlocke895 karma

Well this took an unexpected turn

Flintlocke894 karma

Possible? Yes, assuming your cornhole is outside of your pressured spacesuit.

Practical? Nope.

Flintlocke891 karma

There is no way in hell you could jump hard enough to cancel out your downward velocity. If you grabbed onto something at that speed dislocating your wrists/elbows/shoulders is probably the best case scenario. If you jump up from the ground, the apex of your jump will indeed have a net speed of 0 m/s (not including angular momentum imparted by the spinning of the earth of course). If you are falling at ... say 30 m/s, and you jump, at the apex of your jump your net speed would still be about 30-9 = 21 m/s downwards. That translates to about 75.6 km/h or 47.25 mph.

How do you think your arms would cope if you leaned out of a car going 50 mph and you grabbed onto a rope or a pole whizzing past?