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Airplane seatbelts
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It straps you to the seat so when the plane suddenly drops 50 feet due to turbulence your dumbass doesn't launch into the ceiling.
Yeah, and this is a much more frequent thing than crashes. I've been on planes multiple times when there was sudden turbulence and people without seatbelts lifted out of their seats. I don't think any of my personal experiences resulted in someone hitting their head, but that happens. There was just video of one earlier this year.
Ive seen a loaded drink cart get a few inches of the floor, though that one was intense enough that even the flight attendants adopted an "oh fuck we're about to die" face, which is comforting
Probably less of an "everyone is going to die" and more of a "everyone is going to start screaming and vomiting" look.
No, though I get what you mean, I locked eyes with this woman as my ass came off the seat and she death gripped the cart, I think she might legitimately have been momentarily worried about hitting her head on the ceiling and breaking her neck (had a friend be a hostess and she said the training absolutely mentions that)
As soon as they were touching the floor again they moved as fast as they could to their area, locked it down, and strapped in hard, and the captain yelled in Japanese over the intercom for a couple minutes before finally translating in English that we were fine, clearly freaked out
I know planes are safe but that experience at 1am over the pitch black Pacific ocean occasionally flashes back to me when I'm on planes because holy shit what the FUCK happened
The kraken almost had you...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/world/singapore-airlines-turbulence-bangkok/index.html
This is the incident you are probably referring to.
Yep!
Exactly as you describe.
That scene in the pilot episode of Lost. That's why.
I thought of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH6QJzmLYtw
Are you ready for the terries to get froggy?
https://youtu.be/eiWIOKKuyGE?si=27PLlihXQlsugfdL
Imma drax them sklounst !
I have observed that "very clever" people on the internet have a tendency to disregard solutions that are only partial, even if there is little to no downside to them.
"Oh yeah? Why should I be wearing a seatbelt in a car when it won't even save me if we crash head-on into a semi truck at 100 kph?"
So you don't get launched out the window and then crushed by your own car for the non-semi accidents.
So someone doesn't have to scrape you off the road.
I skydive and people ask why a lot of us wear helmets since it’s not saving you if you hit the ground. The plane or other people can hurt you plenty.
Correct me if I'm wrong too, but if you're coming in on a parachute and somehow hit your head during the landing, that could hurt a lot, right?
If you tumble then yes, it can help there too. It’s usually banging it on exit or turbulence or somebody coming in a little hot to a formation that I’m happy I have it. Pretty sure if you hit the rear wing even with a helmet that’s gonna cause you some issues though.
It also means I can just flip my front visor down and not worry about stinking goggles.
Also a valid reason. I stick my audible altimeter in there too…so that as well.
These days it might actually save you. Cars have gotten stupid safe in the last decade or so. I've seen a car smashed between two semis and the driver only had minor injuries (after they cut them out).
Crumpel zones ftw!
mmm crumpet zones
Not to be confused with crumple scones.
Not even partial in this case. I mean, the "turbulence sending you into the ceiling" event is fully resolved here.
Anyway, just here looking for the common sense pedantic clarification, found it, so now here just to say good job.
If you play the SNES version of Monopoly, you can play against CPU opponents. Mind you, this is artificial intelligence coded in 1992, on a cartridge with about 16mb of storage space for the entire game. Only a fraction of that is dedicated to the AI decision process.
If you propose a trade, I'll give CPU $5 in exchange for $0, the CPU will respond with NO DEAL!!!
But if you propose "I'll give you $100 in exchange for $0, the CPU replies "IT'S A DEAL!!!"
The CPU was holding out for a bigger handout!
Unrelated, but if you hold the B button, and don't release, you'll keep looping the shaking the dice animation. They use digital photo scans of a real hand/arm.......if it were disembodied. And the animation looks like he's just jacking off.
You weren't kidding.
Edit: I see now you said SNES, can't find a good animation of that one though. But I can see in the screenshots that it's a pseudo-mocap human hand and yeah, that would be worse.
Old-school Monopoly jerkoff is how I discovered we can upload gifs now w/o using third-party hosters.
There’s something to that animation…
SNES is worse huh?:
Oh man I haven’t seen that classic in a while. Thanks for the smile!
Wow, talking about NES Monopoly on a post about airplane seatbelts.
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on NES Monopoly because I used to play the game and wanted to see if I held the B button. Probably did, but I'm not sure.
Anyway, the world record speedrun of Monopoly takes advantage of the trade mechanics. Trade the CPU mortgaged properties for all of their money and they'll lose the game because you have to pay a 10% fee on any properties traded that were mortgaged. And if you take all their money in the trade they don't have any to pay the penalty.
Not NES. SNES.
I often see that in political arguments. There's much to be said about wasting political capital on a poor and partial solution, but as you said, people bitch even if there's no real downside.
Yeah, it's a similar reason your wear a helmet on a bicycle/motorcycle, if a car hits you doing 50+ MPH you're probably done for regardless of whether you're wearing a helmet. If you go over your handle bars face first into the pavement doing 10 MPH it keeps that injury from being catastrophic.
Amen. Both sides of my head would be just scar tissue if not for motorcycle helmets. And that's just from sliding on the road, not hitting anything or being hit.
Have you tried not sliding on roads
Yes! It’s pretty nice! 20 years since my last crash and still riding. I guess I learned something.
Most of those were on the racetrack back when I used to do that sort of thing, though. Occupational (hobbypational?) hazard.
I've been giggling for three minutes now. Thanks for making my morning a little sweeter <3
Keep the black side down and ATGATT.
Yeah but the cartoon is funnier.
Also in the event of a crash you don't become a projectile that kills someone else.
Juat like in a car!
Or if you are on a Boeing plane and a side panel/door spontaneously flies off off you don't get sucked out
/s, but not really /s
Most times. Almost all of the times.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke
Also, Aloha Airlines Flight 243
Never been on a flight never assumed I would be afraid of flying however that sounds horrific, so thanks for giving me a new fear of flying.
Can't really let random stuff like that with a low injury profile bother you. You'd end up fearing and respecting escalators in that case.
Reminds me of the time the brakes gave out on the L'enfant Plaza escalator for the DC Metro after the Rally to Restore Sanity (a lot good that did). Everyone was piled on going down and it just gave up the ghost and accelerated at full speed to bring them all down in a pile.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W5MbQaInrjc
For reference, the DC Metro is quite deep underground.
Don't worry, some turbulence is par for the course but dangerous turbulence is pretty rare. Also 50 feet is an exaggeration, turbulence usually feels worse than it is. Plane rides are usually smoother than driving in a car, but flying can make you sensitive to lateral motion.
And when there's a collision on ground. And when the pilot just breaks too hard after landing.