Maybe I’m entering the cranky old women yelling at kids to get off her lawn phase of my life-- but why are all the TikTok challenges always something ridiculously dangerous? (Emphasis on “ridiculous”)
China wants Americans to die in the most absurd ways possible. /s
I wouldnt be suprised if the algorithm pushed it a lil bit more. China has there own for a reason.
Im not a fan of the whole Darwin Award thing, but these people would have died in some dumb way like this either way. Just a matter of time.
“Inertia is a property of matter”
Did none of these people watch Bill Nye??
Even if they did, most people don’t really grok what that means. Most people’s mental models for reference frames are intertial and without transition, so the idea that they’re still travelling at the speed of the boat, say, when they hit the water, and not the speed of the water, doesn’t make intuitive sense to them.
They left the boat. To them, that means they’re no longer moving with the boat.
This is worthy of Darwin awards
Won’t jump out of a car at 50 miles an hour will jump from a speed boat doing 50 because water is wet and you will fall through it and be safe
If there’s anything I’ve learnt from video games, then it’s that water is always safe, no matter how much speed you fall with.
If there’s anything I’ve learnt from slamming my own waterski’s snout into the back of my head and being sown at hospital with 11 stings, then it’s that water is very much not soft at high speeds and water resistance is a bitch.
