I read this article recently while catching up on the webcomic and thought you all might enjoy this article linked below.
Stopping a Train With a BB Gun. http://what-if.xkcd.com/18/
Also, Here is one of his comics that I find hilarious!
RJ, I like the last comment.
And the comic’s relevance to BB guns is…?
It doesn’t have anything to do with it actually. I had my post organized funny. Click the link to go to the article. I just shared the comic because I though everyone would enjoy it. I fixed to post so it shouldn’t be confusing anymore. My apologies.
Did you not actually click the link in the original post?
(I will be generous here and credit the possible excuse that it was edited-in later. Go back and CLICK ON THE RED LINE and you will see the point.
Hint: the cartoon about the model-railroad layouts is NOT what the post is about; he just added that because it was amusing to him…
The link was there from the start. The post was composed funny but I re arranged it a bit to make it less confusing.
You’ll shoot youe eye out!
So six HO layouts means seven O or eight G gauge layouts?
Of course I “clicked the link”; that is where the confusion started.
Your ‘hint’ was the only conclusion I could draw, but I wasn’t sure, which is why I asked the question…
[;)] Didn’t Davie stop a Big Boy with a rock in a slingshot? Well , no “O” gauge engines were injured in this post, my BB gun jammed.~~~
No, David used a sling, which did not have any rubber or other elastic material in it. (I don’t think anybody had even thought if a slingshot back then, though catapults may have been invented). I used a slingshot some when I was young, but did not even try using a sling, which requires a different skill.
BB gun? too iffy.
XKCD is one of my favorites…missed this one, though.
I am thinking 120 metric tons is a more appropriate weight for a GE Genesis locomotive.
45 meters per second is over 135 feet per second, or ~92 miles per hour, for those not well versed in metric…