Nah it is perfectly fine.

I saw comments on that video when it was on facebook of people sending it to their medical professional friends and they laughed.

Poor acrobat falls to his death just to prevent himself from hearing Green Day that went on 30mins after that happened.

What a song to cark it to though :cool:

Cark?

Yes, suck my fucking cark.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cark_it

That did not help.

:pimp:



sorry

I see this making the rounds from a bunch of scared mothers saying how they'll never go on another fair ride again. See I don't get that because I've found fair rides to be generally boring since I was in high school. The element of danger is bringing the excitement back into the fairs!



And that one was pretty tame so here's one showing what happens when crackheads don't use the buddy system

Some of those fair rides are simply pushing physics right to the edge. That ride was inspected and certified safe before the fair opened. Yet, steel fails if pushed too hard for too long.

Great point Chula

People staying pretty calm in light of what that stickfighter was up to.

It kind of looks like it hit a barrier that caused the steel to bend and make the thing snap off in the video. I wonder if it was wear, the setup for that fair, or the overall design that caused it. I could see this becoming a spark for higher regulation of ride standards, but with the state of the news cycle these days, it could also be entirely forgotten by Tuesday. The makers of the ride are going the Hays Code approach and calling for a stop on all of their rides that are on the market until they can find the cause.

If you listen to the video you hear the clear sound of a major stress fracture right as the accident happens. Steel can snap the same as a twig. You stress it too much and "snap". Unless it's heat tempered to give it some memory (like a spring) it just breaks if pushed too far.

That's one possibility, but it happens at a point where a barrier would be, so it gives that impression. I'm not enough of a truther to call my subjective analysis of cell phone footage fact though.

I know one thing, it definitely wasn't jet fuel.

Trust the long time mechanical engineer. I've actually attended classes where we studied this ****. That ride mixes gravity, centrifugal force, and massive acceleration.

The fact that they probably run it non stop during the entire fair was the recipe for disaster. It may have survived this entire fair but it was bound to fail based on what happened.

Plus not all steel pieces are created equal. Every now and then you're going to get a bad piece.

Simple physics. Remember when Challenger blew up? Came down to a simply o-ring not working because it was too cold.

You're most likely right on this particular instance, but no. You should know by now that it takes a lot for me to find an idea convincing.

You're smart!

Not an idea. An extremely educated analysis based on the data available. FF to 3:00.

Yep!

Wtf

Apparently Chinese camera phone operators are just as ****ish as Western ones. Warms my cockles.

Hey man, nice shot.

I can't believe that's on YouTube. Just why???

It must be grandfathered in by some earlier political relevance policy.