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Comment Re:No mention on capacity though (Score 2) 395

Sure it would –it just wouldn't last 20 years. With charging in a few minutes, I think he's perfectly capable of charging it while he's working. So that's 2 charges a day, or one every 12 hours. That means it'll last 13.7 years. To be honest, that's a pretty reasonable length of time for a car.

Comment Re:That's not the reason you're being ignored. (Score 1) 406

That's true in low speed impacts, especially ones where your head is otherwise protected. It's not at all true in accidents where a lot of energy is involved. When you're talking about 50g deceleration, the most important thing is to make sure that the head doesn't accelerate rapidly away from the spinal column. That's why Formula 1 drivers wear a HANS (Head And Neck Support) device - to stop the head pulling forward off the spine in a crash. The brace position does a similar thing.

Comment Re:That's not the reason you're being ignored. (Score 1) 406

Sadly, the typical crash involves the plane ripping itself apart and burning the passengers alive. Only a few rare accidents have the plane smash into a building.

Actually, no, surprisingly. Not only is your likelihood of being in a plane crash lower than that when driving, but... Even if you assume you're doing to be in a plane (or car) crash, your chance of surviving are actually higher in a plane. 75% of people involved in a plane crash survive. Meanwhile, only 50% of people involved in a car crash survive.

Comment Re:That's not the reason you're being ignored. (Score 5, Interesting) 406

and it takes me all of two seconds to remember where the exits are

Actually, this is the one important bit of the safety briefing. It's been shown multiple times that in an emergency situation we're surprisingly shit at figuring out where we should be going. Not only that, but one person trying to fight the flow and go to the wrong exit can fuck over many many other people. Just prompting people to look around and register in their brain "it's 3 rows behind me" is useful.

Comment Re:That's not the reason you're being ignored. (Score 2) 406

Bracing does nothing to improve your chances of survival, in some cases it makes less likely you'll survive.

Not true, as multiple actual scientific studies, and, more popularly myth busters have shown. Assuming the brace position significantly reduces the acceleration your head undergoes, and hence significantly reduces the chances of traumatic brain injury.

Comment Re:That's not the reason you're being ignored. (Score 5, Informative) 406

I'll take my chances that even if I did brace for impact it wouldn't make a significant difference in my survival or chance of injury.

Actually, the brace position does have a huge effect on your survival of a crash landing. It stops your head accelerating rapidly forward, and then backward relative to your body. That illiminates a whole huge class of possible brain injuries.

Comment Re:Our PC society will be our demise! (Score 1) 193

Yes, damn those white people for SIMPLY WANTING TO LIVE AROUND THEIR OWN KIND.

Yes, damn them for that. Yes, damn them for being so self centred, biggotted and idiotic for believing that somehow people who were born in another country are not worthy of being around them.

Apparently, YOU believe that white people are so 'superior' to non-whites, that to prevent non-whites from living around is to deprive them of something,

I'm sorry, but what the hell? You literally just claimed that depriving them of something (in this case the ability to live around you) is not depriving them of something.

Comment Re:Our PC society will be our demise! (Score 4, Insightful) 193

Context - what's actually on the rise in Scandinavia at the moment is Nazism. So far, the fight against it has been a rather ham-fisted attempt to suppress it in the news, rather than engaging it and letting people see for themselves what it is. OP apparently sympathises with the rise of the far right in his country.

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