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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It’s not the speed that kills you, it’s the force?

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Correct, but if V is larger, F will be larger too, assuming m has no measurable change, so it's quite a tautological statement.

[–] lurker8008@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

Delta T is the difference between concrete wall vs those crash rails and water tanks allowing you down slowly. It's not that bad to slow down from 0.1c if you do it over the course of a few centuries

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not the force that kills you, it's the crushing of your inner organs.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 years ago

It's not the crushing of your inner organs that kills you, its your lack of off site backups of your consciousness 😜

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Forces don't kill people. People kill people.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago

It takes a good force with a person to stop a bad force with a person.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

unless you reduce the mass

[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

And here I was always told it was the sudden stop that gets you

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Somehow, Palpatine returned.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, maxi-big the Force. Well that smells stink-o-whiff.