I have to say, This man is a fine example of how to earn a place in the annals of Manliness. Not only do you effectively fuck your ex-wife out of your hard earned moolah, you also cement your place in history as a man who was not afraid to go the extra mile…just to have the last laugh.
Suicide doesn’t make you a badass, regardless of how you do it.
Quoted for truth. Suicide is the coward’s way out. Its a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
I have my retarded cap on, today. I need visual aides. How long was this rope that he was able to buld enough speed to decapitate himself instead of just being dragged out of the car?
If his seat belt prevented him from being dragged out of the car, and he continued to step on the gas...... oowwwch
Or the extra 40 feet, at least.
I failed physics, and badly, but its Friday so I have not much to do
I’ll answer my own question.
Apparently, it takes approximately 500 n-sec force to decapitate someone. He owned a health club, so lets assume the guy was a healthy 72.6 K (160 lb). Force/mass = accelleration, right? So he had to have been going at least 24.804 K/h (15.4 mph) at the moment his head came off.
But lets take it a step further. The car he used was an Aston Martin which can reach 60 mph is less than 4.5 seconds. At a constant rate, that means to hit the minimum 15.4 mph, he only had to drive a couple of seconds to get the job done.
But nooooooo!!!. He had to drive into a busy ‘main road’ so that people could see it happen. The badass actually manuevered, his car, maybe even stopping for pedestrains with a friggin rope around his neck. My guess is that he had a rope a tad longer than 40ft
A for originality.
Anyone else thinking we can talk Lebell into making a run for “Badass of the Month”?
This is a pretty fun physics problem, but you have a number of concepts confused. The blog you cited gives 4400 N as the force required to snap the neck, so he estimates 5000 N for the hanging in his analysis. He then assumes that the decapitation took 0.1 seconds. From that we get the impulse of 500 N-sec. Impulse is not the same thing as force. More on that later.
Second problem: acceleration is not the same thing as velocity. So even if you were using the correct figure of 5000 N, you can’t divide that by mass and get a velocity. If you write out your units, it will help you from making silly mistakes like this. A newton is kg m/s^2. (5000 kg m/s^2) / (72.6 kg) = (68.87 m/s^2). That is an acceleration, and unfortunately, it’s not going to help you with this problem. Why not? Because the car and the person will not undergo a nice, constant deceleration that will be easy for you to model. That’s why the blog uses impulse and change in momentum.
(Force) * (Time) = (Mass) * (Change in velocity)
That is the equation used by the blog. It’s actually a more general form of F=MA. What you know as Newton’s 2nd law is the simplified version of this equation, which is in turn a simplified version of an equation that uses scary things like derivatives and vectors.
Are you sorry you brought this up yet?
Next point: you shouldn’t use the mass of the person in this equation. He is strapped into the car. When the rope goes taut, it will be trying to restrain both him and the car. That car weighs about 1800 kg (I looked up a few weights for Aston Martin DB7, but I don’t know the year). With him in it, let’s just estimate it at 2000 kg.
So, if we keep the figure 5000 N for the force of decapitation, and 0.1 seconds for the time of the decapitation, we can calculate the change in velocity of the system.
(5000 kg m/s^2) * (0.1 s) = (2000 kg) * (dV)
dV = 0.25 m/s = 0.9 mph
That means if you were chugging along at some speed and a rope pulled taut while tied around your neck, your Aston Martin DB7 would slow down a measly 1 mph while your head flew off.
Does that mean you would only need to be rolling down your driveway in order for the decapitation to occur? Maybe, but I think if you were going that slow, the time of decapitation would be more than 0.1 s, and you might just crush your windpipe.
Absolutely not sorry at all. Thanks for your detailed explanation. It was worth making a minor ass of myself. Now, back to re-reading your post… must learn decapitation science.
badass
whack job, i wouldnt give her the satifaction
Regardless, Mr. M earns the title of Badass of the Month by turning his body into a giant, blood-spurting, middle finger pointed right at his enemy. A disgraced samurai could only have prayed to Raiden to have gone out with that much style.
After reading these lines I heard myself say out loud…“dude, that IS pretty badass”
GOOD CHOICE!
now thats impressive. i folowed maby 75%, the rest was a mix of uh hua, and blank stare. very informative tho
Jesus Phrost, you are the biggest douche on the planet. Taking a persons personal tragedy and making it the object of your shit for brains troll group makes you the cunt of the month. Don’t you have another cage fight to get your ass handed to you or something else to occupy your plebeian brain?
2/10.
So how many months did it take you to come up with this, your latest blockbusting trollish effort?