[Newsbot]

Title: Argentine train slams into busy station, killing 49
Category: World
Posted By: Strutz
Date: 2012-02-22 09:36:05

[raydan]

26 kph...

...the fast-moving train


WTF!

[andyt]

Fast enough.

[raydan]

...one car penetrated nearly 20 feet (six meters) into the next.

At 26kph... hitting a shock-absorbing barrier.

What is that train made of, papier-mâché?


I repeat... WTF!

[Regina]

raydan wrote:

...one car penetrated nearly 20 feet (six meters) into the next.

At 26kph... hitting a shock-absorbing barrier.

What is that train made of, papier-mâché?


I repeat... WTF!

Yeah really!

[Tricks]

With a train, anything is fast moving. So much force behind those fuckers.

[andyt]

Tricks wrote:

With a train, anything is fast moving. So much force behind those fuckers.

That's my thinking too. And I doubt that train cars are designed to withstand impact the way a car is, since this sort of thing is very rare. And, in Argentina they may not be using the latest train technology.

[QBall]

raydan wrote:

...one car penetrated nearly 20 feet (six meters) into the next.

At 26kph... hitting a shock-absorbing barrier.

What is that train made of, papier-mâché?


I repeat... WTF!

E=mc2. You only need a little bit of speed to impart a lot of energy when you have sufficient mass, and with a train you have sufficient mass (and then some!). Einstein bitches!

[andyt]

Sorry, no nuclear reactions involved. Momentum = mass times velocity. Newton bitch.

[BartSimpson]

Argentine trains don't have brakes, I guess.

[andyt]

Or they fail. Not like this has never happened here.

[raydan]

Still, last year's crash in China "only" killed about 40 when a "high speed" train ran into another one on a bridge, sending 6 cars (containing about 100 people each) off the bridge.

Sorry, I could not find how fast the train was going.

[BartSimpson]

andyt wrote:

Or they fail. Not like this has never happened here.

True. It just seems odd that it happened as the train approached a station.

[DrCaleb]

QBall wrote:

raydan wrote:

...one car penetrated nearly 20 feet (six meters) into the next.

At 26kph... hitting a shock-absorbing barrier.

What is that train made of, papier-mâché?


I repeat... WTF!

E=mc2. You only need a little bit of speed to impart a lot of energy when you have sufficient mass, and with a train you have sufficient mass (and then some!). Einstein bitches!

Actually, Force = Mass X Accelleration. Newton, Bitches!