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Man falls 12 storeys and survives
A Taiwanese man who fell from the balcony of his 12th floor flat while changing a lightbulb, has escaped serious injuries.
Chang Shih-chi, 68, told cable network CTiTV he lost his balance after suffering an electric shock.
He said his fall was broken as he bounced off a canvas awning, electric wiring and a parked car, says the Taipei Times.
A doctor who treated the man in Taichung said: "The patient fell from the 12th floor to the ground without suffering major injuries. This is a miracle."
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Miracle???
He missed the parking meter, baby carriage and the pedestrian....
Or
He would not have suffered a shock if he was more "grounded" as a person.............
Thank you, don't forget to tip your waitress and I'll be here all weekend.
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There is no gravity...the Earth sucks.
I read that on a Tshirt one time. :rolleyes:
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Hey Richard, can you post one of those scientific explanations for "what is Gravity"like you did for why the moon always has one side towards earth? It seems to me this observable measureable unseen force is quite mysterious. No particles or rays or anything seems to cause the attraction of small things towards huge things. There must be more to it than the larger body exerting magic on the small body. (You must now come and kiss my enormous mass!)
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Yeah, the physicists say that gravity is a weak force. Tell that to anyone who's fallen down...:p
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I found this at http://www.howstuffworks.com/
". Newton was the first person to study gravity seriously, and he came up with the law of universal gravitation:
Each particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them...
Einstein later came along and redefined gravity, so there are now two models -- Newtonian and Einsteinian. Einsteinian gravitational theory has features that allow it to predict the motion of light around very massive objects and several other interesting phenomena...
The general theory of relativity addresses the problem of gravity and that of nonuniform, or accelerated, motion. .. Einstein's equations handle Newtonian gravity as a subset...
The question of why atoms attract one another is still not understood. The goal is to combine gravity, electromagnetism and strong and weak nuclear forces into a single unified theory."
They also had a related article called "Does Gravity Travel At The Speed Of Light?" Funny stuff, huh?
:)
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Mary Poppins stunt lands man in hospital
A man in China ended up in hospital after he tried to use his umbrella as a makeshift parachute.
The man, from Chonqing, western China, is believed to have suffered two broken legs, reports West China City News.
He told police he jumped out of the window because he thought his microwave oven was about to explode.
He had thought that the umbrella would enable him to land safely - like Mary Poppins in the Disney children's film.
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I wonder what happens when his TV goes on the blink?
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:rolleyes:
And thats my opinion
