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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Samdell@lemmy.eco.br⁩ to ⁨greentext@sh.itjust.works⁩

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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  • ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Log out

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    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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      • ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There are medicines for that… 😳

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Inertia says that the log is moving roughly the same speed as the truck, so I’ll apply the brakes and move to the right.

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      might have hit the ground and bounced

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sure, but it’s skidding across the pavement, not flying at my face at 75mph. I can stop faster than it can.

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  • mrslt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Stop, lol. The momentum from the truck is carrying the log forward. Realistically, it isn’t being shot directly into the windshield like a cruise missile.

    Physics!

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Never noticed that the logs fell off the side and bounced! The log would quickly slow and the car would still be hauling ass, right?

      And for those of you scared of log trucks, nothing can make a log slide off the top while driving down the road. They are jammed on there with friction.

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      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I have enough trust towards brake technology that I assume your car can stop faster than a log. I ass-pulled that assumption tho.

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      • Owlboi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        i’d argue a bouncing log takes a lot longer to slow down than your average car hitting the brakes

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Before this happened I would have given myself double the distance to the truck avoiding the situation completely

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Enter a Sherlock Holmes-esque state of hyper awareness. Calculate the distance to the log based on parallax and distance between my eyes. Calculate time to impact given relative speeds (this calculation costs precious microseconds but is indispensable). Note the positions of every car around and the age and apparent gender of every driver. Adjust the steering wheel so that the log impacts right between myself and my passenger. Upon impact, adjust steering based on road position and positions and probable reactions of other drivers to bring my car safely to a stop without causing further damage.

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    • Pyro@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Same here except one difference. I would immediately get impaled right as I start the calculations.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Brock Samson it.

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  • kaidezee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Turn on the Improbability Drive. And certainly not improbably watch out for sperm whales.

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    • AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Activate the Omega 13 device!

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        In every universe, Alan Rickman is just tired of this shit.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Underrated roles for both Allens

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not again

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  • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Passenger’s seat perspective. So from that angle there is nothing to do. It is always best to relax. There is a reason drunks often survive the crashes they cause that kill others. It is kinda hard to do in the moment without practice. In the crash that broke my neck and back, there are only a few moments of very hazy dream like memories that I’ve recalled over the years since. One of those was that I somehow tried to put up my hands or some way I tried to catch myself as I hit the jeep on a bike at 29 MPH. I only really remember thinking for a moment, “fucking never do that again” next moment I’m with some paramedics talking about getting me stable enough to transport and trying to get someone to call that could show up at hospital. I was only able to remember phone numbers and my address from when I was in highschool 10 years before and 2k miles away. I felt super stressed because I knew I was doing it but couldn’t figure it out. I finally remembered my sister’s number and relaxed, staying unconscious for 3 hours after.

    That is what it is really like with severe head and neck trauma. Your conscious mind is quite disconnected from your limbic system. If you die, you likely won’t even know. I had no idea how close I had come to dying until many things that came out of the personal injury case that followed and stuff since then…

    For me, I wouldn’t follow that kind of truck closely or casually at all. I’m aware of how it is loaded and the disconnect between the loader operator and low pay driver, on a truck likely held together with JB Weld and duct tape. But yeah, just relax. If you die, you die. No big deal. You won’t even know it happened, so why stress.

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    • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have nothing to add except, fuck drunk drivers, I hope they all crash safely into a ditch.

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hope you have recovered from or, are recovering from the injuries.

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  • rosco385@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Shit myself.

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    • Quexotic@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Realistically, same, right after being crayoned by the log.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hard swerve to the right, and duck.

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    • GargleBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What good is a bird in this situation?

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Hello. They can fly.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t have been anywhere near that close to a fckn logging truck of all things.

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    • jimmux@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m surrounded by forestry operations where I live. I can’t go anywhere without getting stuck behind a logging truck on winding and often slippery broads. It’s amazing how complacent I’ve become with these things.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you had to think about it, you’re dead.

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  • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would let myself die because this scene is so far removed from the laws of physics that I spent my life studying and my entire career would now be completely worthless.

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    • Hoimo@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What would realistically happen when the logs fall off the truck? They still have their forward speed, so braking should be enough to avoid them, right?

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      • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They would probably never fall off in the first place, which is why you’ve never heard of anything remotely like this ever happening. Usually, there’s two supports, one in the front and one in the back. Even if one of these large steel posts somehow fails, the other one will hold the logs long enough for the driver to stop the car. They’ve almost certainly tested stuff like this from a standstill while designing those beds. Same principle holds for ratchet straps, although there will be far more than 2 straps, making catastrophic failure even rarer, and those would be routinely inspected for damage.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They’re not going to go very far forward due to friction, and stopping distance will be longer on the wet road, so I think steering to the right would be the better bet. Don’t brake or you’ll lose traction, just swerve a bit and aim for the grass on the edge of the roadway, hopefully it’ll slow you down while getting away from the logs.

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    • manicdave@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s sad that mythbusters isn’t running anymore. It’d be interesting to see them trying to recreate this scene with a remotely controlled car.

      If there’s any inexplicably wealthy science adjacent YouTubers reading this, hire a disused runway and steal this idea. Once you’ve proven tyres have more grip than wood, try it on the grass next to the runway or headon for your viral money shot.

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  • lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    meme from star wars captioned: You have to spin the car, because spinning objects deflect projectiles better; Young Anakin subtitled: I’ll try spinning, that’s a good trick!

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  • wanderwisley@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Logout.

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    • Oggyb@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then treestart.

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    • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ragequit

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Dodge right and hope for the best trying to control the car in the weeds. Wrecking in dirt seems somewhat better odds than being speared by a thousand pound log.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Having seen this movie, I have never and will never drive behind any kind of cylinder hauler, ever.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This movie did more for safe following distance than decades of drivers ed.

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  • nuko147@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Alt+F4

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  • dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Curse, turn my parking lights on, and park the truck to one side, hope no one was hurt behind me

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  • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Realistically, I’d let it happen. No ragerts.

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Realistically, there would be very little if any time remaining to experience regret.

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  • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Get out the saw and start furiously making a table

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  • __ghost__@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Speed up

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    • toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The NASCAR theory…

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  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh, hey, it’s Pseudotsuga menziesii.

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    • Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hey, it’s Enrico Pallazzo!

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  • Quexotic@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Log that close? Same thing op would. Die.

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  • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Try to avoid the big logs.

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  • theblips@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d Jim the camera and say “logs, amirite?”

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  • Pnut@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is what the “overdrive” button on the shifter column is for.

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  • maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    swerve right asshole

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    • peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      assholes always swerve right

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s the (then-) new highway near where I grew up, right before they put up the signage. I’d slow down because my dad knew all the cops.

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  • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Simple. Seen this a thousand times.

    Freeze frame - cue narrator

    “I bet you’re wondering how I ended up here…”

    Then I fuckin bail before the freeze frame is over.

    Roll credits.

    It’s obvious you all haven’t taken American media seriously, and it’s sad. The great story tellers of our time have spent countless hours and mountains of money to teach you lessons from the annals of history and it consistently falls on deaf ears to the inevitable demise of civilization.

    One day people will tell tales of the great visionaries such as James Wong, true prophets of times long past who spent their lives and vast borrowed fortunes attempting to warn the masses of future catastrophes as foretold by the wise and all knowing producers, the forgotten gods of our times, who sacrificed their own lives and hard earned connections, in a fruitless attempt to spare future generations from the predicted inevitable rise of death itself, using math to systematically destroy us one by one.

    If only we had paid attention and not been distracted by the irresistible whores of Hollywood who tempted us with dreams of superheroes and anthropomorphic stones assuming the the roles of so called “actors”, posing as “action heroes” we might leave a better legacy for the future generations of content consumers who will surely mock us for our ignorance as they smash that like button.

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