RGB, (re kicking) Sure, and you won't miss. Basically, you lift your foot up and place it on my chest, with your knee bent. I bend my knees. We say "one two three go!" and you push with your leg while I jump backwards. If people practice doing that *quickly* it looks kinda like you are kicking me through the air. It helps if I have a balsa-wood table to land on :-) Or one of those sugar-glass windows to crash through.
I should be down to Chapel Hill this Christmas (last year we went to SF to meet newest grand-nephew). Peter On 6/21/08, Robert G. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Peter St. John wrote: > > The destructive radius of Little Boy was about total, up to about one mile >> radius, and tapered down to light at about two miles. So being in a >> lead-lined steel container at 2000 meters might be OK for Indiana. >> >> In all action movies, blasts throw people unhurt for long distances; when >> that much force (to impart that much momentum) would kill you. That part >> is >> just conventional Hollywood. I could teach RGB to kick me so that I fly >> through the air as in a Bruce Lee movie; it's a stunt, and real kicks >> > > Ooo, you can? When can we start? What if I, um, "miss"? > > reallly hitting drop you like a sack of potatoes, I've seen it. But not in >> movies. Similarly bullets, they drill holes in you, if they pushed you >> through the air the recoil would do the same to the shooter. >> > > Yes, one does have to work a bit to suspend disbelief when watching > movies these days. But not TOO much. Years of watching Jackie Chan, > James Bond, Bruce Lee, Angelina Jolie, etc have gradually broken us into > the idea that there are two completely distinct realities. The one > where you can get hit on the head with a two by four and continue > fighting, and the one where you can get hit on the head with a two by > four and bits of your skull and brains spatter out onto the walls. > They're even both hollywood realities! > > As for the scene's good taste I can't say, I haven't seen the movie yet >> :-) >> > > Yah. Maybe this week. Maybe I'll wait for the video. > > rgb > > >> Peter >> >> >> >> On 6/20/08, Kilian CAVALOTTI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Thursday 19 June 2008 11:25:05 am Mike Davis wrote: >>> >>>> According to one weapons designer the only safe way to use it was to >>>> fire from a hilltop into a valley from a jeep and then drive like >>>> hell into the next valley. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Or... there's also the so-called "home appliance nuke evasion >>> manoeuvre", as demonstrated in "Indiana Jones and the Fridge of Nuclear >>> Doom". But, obviously, you need a fridge. >>> >>> http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/ius/archives/003477.html >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Kilian >>> >>> >> > -- > Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 > Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb <http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb> > Book of Lilith Website: > http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php<http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/Lilith/Lilith.php> > Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977 >
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