Digitus___Impudicus

Digitus___Impudicus t1_j6petjp wrote

Reply to comment by km89 in ELI5: What does the term "career ending email" mean in the corporate world? by scared_pony

We have in our business what I call "Resume Generating Events" or an RGE.

Example: You hear that James has not done backups for over a year and accounting just lost the Sql Database. RGE for James.

This is what you have done is so bad, whatever it may be, you need to go ahead and start printing your resume out.

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Digitus___Impudicus t1_j4wblrw wrote

Reply to Whats stopping us from sending a probe into a black hole if we haven't already? by stealth941

Hey just think about how long it will take to get there 1,600 light-years away......Then add on how long it will take for the information to get back to us.

One way is long enough but you still need the return trip on the data collected to travel back. That is a long...long, long, long time. I mean...I don't even know how you send that data back from that distance and escape the event horizon anyway.

Edit: Crap I should have read the responses...someone already made much more detailed post saying the same things. Well done /u/Weed_O_Whirler

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Digitus___Impudicus t1_j2ar9nn wrote

Reply to ELI5: Why is the recoil of a gun not nearly as bad as getting hit with a bullet while wearing a bullet proof vest if they are both the same force? by Tratakaro

Well, you are missing a couple of things.

#1. The force expended will take the path of least resistance. Which is pushing the bullet out and down the barrel. At which point a portion of the force it released out the end with not resistance.

#2. Concentrated above force is behind a small object. That has little to no resistance and is magnified by all force being directed from behind to push it out of the barrel.

#3. The recoil is only the force that is not expended out of the barrel.

#4. If you plug the barrel, you have violent explosions where the force has no place to release and often kills the person holding the gun because the force is directed equally in all directions.

If you had a firecracker and placed, it on your open palm and lit it. It exploded it would hurt like hell but you might not have massive damage. Lit it and close your hand around with a fist and you are going to loose fingers. The blast from the firecracker dissipates in all directions and you hand only gets a portion of that expelled blast. Close your hand and you hand takes it all. Sort of the same idea.

TRDL: The vast majority of the force produced is concentrated and expelled out of the barrel where there is no resistance. In recoil you are only getting the force that could not be vented out the barrel and in the vest getting hit by the bullet you are getting everything else which is the vast majority of the expended blast translated into kinetic energy.

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