My stepdad had a hauling business. Huge stakebody diesel truck he called Big Blue, you'd call him and he'd bring us kids over and we would load the truck. He'd take it to the dump or wherever they wanted.
Usually us kids rode in the open back of the truck with whatever we were hauling, which was usually old furniture and trash.
One day we were moving a TON of furniture and the whole truck was packed. So packed that there wasn't much room for us but there was like a littke pocket in the middle.
Being stupid kids, we decided to start clambering around on top of the furniture, never mind that the truck is barreling down the state highway.
Well i was climbing up on some dressers towards the back of the truck, but they had been covered with moving blanket.
When all of my weight got up on top of the dresser, the wind pressure started sliding me and the goddamn moving blanket backwards, and since the dressers were taller than the stake walls of the truck that meant me and the moving pad were headed directly off the back of the truck, going 60+mph
I of course tried to scramble back to safety but all my effort just pulled the damn furniture pad towards me and I kept sliding.
My feet went off the back of the dressers, dangling over the highway, when one of the kids with me heard my terror screams over the wind, realized what was happening and jumped and caught the edge of the moving blanket ending my rearward progress.
We kept riding in the back on hauling jobs but I learned to be more careful.
bonus: That same stepdad, one of his own natural kids was real wild. He stowed away on the roof of their Winnebago before the mom drove it over the Maryland Bay Bridge. She said she couldn't figure out why everyone was honking and pointing but it's not like she could pull over on the bridge!
The 80's was wild.
that old 'you don't change horses mid stream' energy
whoa i just looked it up and my state has mandatory unit pricing laws that my kroger breaks in every aisle!
you're right, I meant 4 years as aboundary even if that's actually high.
Since it's a hypothetical material we don't know what max speed information can travel through it and the actual answer would be related to that, so a lower boundary at 4 years anyway.
If the material was truly somehow magically incompressible then I expect we would see some kind of time dilation so that the information could move at the right speed without deforming the rod. It would still take at minimum 4 years.
fatherless biped that can't lay eggs
yeah we have a dread pirate roberts situation at my house child a was not into my games but it's child b's account now. Same for Minecraft, child b rocking a minecon 1.0 cape that's older than they are 😂
we had this setup at a place i did pair programming and it was excellent. Big tall comfy adjustable captains chairs with adjustable standing desks so two people could work and each could stand or sit as they liked. Of all the methods we tried this was the clear winner. It's way easier to stand from the stools too so you end up standing a lot more.
I was literally just thinking today that it's wild that t-mobile has been honoring my simple choice plan prices from 2010. I jinxed us! If they could raise the price at any time i'm amazed it hasn't happened before tbh.
Lex is pretty nice it's like queer nextdoor