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- From: pandit@ssd.intel.com (Milind Pandit)
- Subject: Re: Freedom, Social Responsibility, etc. etc.
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- Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division (SSD), Intel
- References: <1992Dec23.153139.1@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:39:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.153139.1@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu> tcox@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu (Tony Cox - (415)926-3105) writes:
- > Firstly, wearing a skid-lid may reduce your chance of being killed
- > when you fall on your head, but it also _increases_ the chances of
- > neck injury. You aren't violating the law of energy conservation by
- > wearing your crashhat - the energy which would have gone into
- > cracking your skull now goes into compressing your spinal column.
-
- Not entirely true. The energy which would have gone into cracking
- your skull now goes into cracking the helmet. You're not supposed to
- wear a helmet that has sustained an impact, because it is DESIGNED to
- absorb energy and be damaged by an impact.
-
- > Secondly, anyone who has ever ridden a motor cycle will tell you
- > that a helmet reduces both your vision and your ability to
- > determine the source of a noise. Try this simple test. Stand in a
- > parking lot with your eyes shut and get a friend to toot her horn.
- > You should be able to point to her car very accurately. Now try it
- > when wearing a helmet. See?
-
- Not true. A well-designed, approved helmet does not obscure your
- ability to see, unless you can normally see 180 degrees horizontally
- and vertically without moving your head. I've tried the test you
- suggest, and am unable to agree with you.
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- Milind S. Pandit |
- Operating Systems Engineer | pandit@ssd.intel.com
- Intel Supercomputer Systems Division |
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