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Post by the light works on Nov 28, 2018 4:29:23 GMT
Maid-Sama!, episode 5 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Maid_Sama!_episodes The premise behind the series is that when tomboy Misaki's father walks out on the family, he leaves behind so much debt that everyone has to pitch in. This leads to Misaki having to sheepishly accept a job at a theme cafe where the staff dress and act like maids and servants. In the episode, it's learned that someone has been bushwhacking young women who work at theme restaurants. They wait until the target venue is closed for the night, then see whoever is last out the door. If it's a young woman, they're upon her. Despite the danger, Misaki is tasked with locking up by herself after the manager is called to a last-minute meeting of local shop owners. Given that she's ranked in akido, she gets a bit too over-confident and so doesn't properly secure the building. This allows the attackers a chance to slip inside and overpower her. Fortunately for her, when her boyfriend Usui found out that she was going to be closing up by herself he decided to jaunt on down and check on her. When he hears the struggle, he grabs a heavy flower pot, breaks a window, and goes in. This is all the diversion Misaki needs, and she soon dispenses with the handcuffs they put her in. Between Usui (there are direct parallels between him and Batman) and Misaki, the attackers don't have a chance. Thing is, instead of popping the lock open, picking it, or slipping a hand out, Misaki simply goes Incredible Hulk and wrenches the chain between cuffs apart simply through spreading her arms apart. Is it even vaguely possible to do that to a properly-manufactured set of handcuffs? yes, it is vaguely possible to do that to a standard set of handcuffs. usually, it requires a bit of assistance, by which I mean illicit street drugs. but yes, that is why there are special high strength handcuffs on the market. |
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Post by ironhold on Nov 28, 2018 5:30:47 GMT
yes, it is vaguely possible to do that to a standard set of handcuffs. usually, it requires a bit of assistance, by which I mean illicit street drugs. but yes, that is why there are special high strength handcuffs on the market. In this case though, it's just adrenaline and a goodly amount of righteous indignation. |
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Post by ironhold on Jan 6, 2019 15:25:36 GMT
"Say 'I Love You'" episode #4 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Say_%22I_love_you%22._episodesPopular guy Yamato is trying to coax unlikely girlfriend Mei out of her shell by introducing her to his group of friends and associates. Unfortunately, Yamato doesn't realize that one associate has become a creeper until he says some rather offensive things to Mei. This leads to Yamato knocking him senseless. Even though there's no blood on Yamato's hand after the punch, the next day his hand is wrapped... with Mei, in a voice-over, noting that he'd end up with a scar on his hand due to how forceful the punch was. 1. What sort of force would it take for someone doing the punching to not only open up their own hand, but in such a fashion that they'd have a scar on it? 2. How much damage would that do to the person they were punching? The guy he hit has a visible red mark on his face for a few days, but is ambulatory enough to attend classes later. |
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Post by the light works on Jan 6, 2019 16:19:45 GMT
"Say 'I Love You'" episode #4 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Say_%22I_love_you%22._episodesPopular guy Yamato is trying to coax unlikely girlfriend Mei out of her shell by introducing her to his group of friends and associates. Unfortunately, Yamato doesn't realize that one associate has become a creeper until he says some rather offensive things to Mei. This leads to Yamato knocking him senseless. Even though there's no blood on Yamato's hand after the punch, the next day his hand is wrapped... with Mei, in a voice-over, noting that he'd end up with a scar on his hand due to how forceful the punch was. 1. What sort of force would it take for someone doing the punching to not only open up their own hand, but in such a fashion that they'd have a scar on it? 2. How much damage would that do to the person they were punching? The guy he hit has a visible red mark on his face for a few days, but is ambulatory enough to attend classes later. the logical interpretation of that is that there was either bone damage that required surgical repair, or sufficient bruising to cause delayed injury to the skin. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Jan 6, 2019 17:33:24 GMT
It's a cartoon. Who cares. These are the kind of "myths" that ruined the original Mythbusters.
When they started doing cartoon and Hollywood movie myths is when I, and apparently a lot of other viewers, lost interest in the show.
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Post by ironhold on Jan 13, 2019 4:08:34 GMT
"Say I Love You", episode 5
Mei meets Yamato's baby sister when Mei comes over to help him take care of a kitten he's adopted. Mei realizes that Yamato's sister is dealing with the same kind of bullying and harassment that nearly wrecked her at that age, and when Yamato has to go pick something up Mei uses the time to have a heart - to - heart with the girl.
In an effort to boost the sister's morale, Mei notes how creative the girl is and how incredible it is that she's cooking sweets and pastries at her age. In contrast, Mei notes, the first time she tried to make cookies they were so hard her dad broke a tooth on them.
How screwed up does an average cookie have to be that someone will break a tooth on them?
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Post by the light works on Jan 13, 2019 15:30:16 GMT
"Say I Love You", episode 5 Mei meets Yamato's baby sister when Mei comes over to help him take care of a kitten he's adopted. Mei realizes that Yamato's sister is dealing with the same kind of bullying and harassment that nearly wrecked her at that age, and when Yamato has to go pick something up Mei uses the time to have a heart - to - heart with the girl. In an effort to boost the sister's morale, Mei notes how creative the girl is and how incredible it is that she's cooking sweets and pastries at her age. In contrast, Mei notes, the first time she tried to make cookies they were so hard her dad broke a tooth on them. How screwed up does an average cookie have to be that someone will break a tooth on them? not much if you get a walnut shell in them. - and if a person's teeth are "at risk" then really, it doesn't take much even without a foreign body in the cookie. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Jan 13, 2019 18:39:01 GMT
How screwed up does an average cookie have to be that someone will break a tooth on them? The question should be how screwed up does a tooth have to be to be broken by a cookie. |
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Post by ironhold on Jan 14, 2019 2:39:19 GMT
"Hidamari Sketch", episodes 3 and 7. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hidamari_Sketch_episodesThe premise behind the show is that four girls become unlikely friends after they room in the same apartment complex near the magnet high school they all go to. In episode 3, it's revealed that when the landlady was last redoing the building, she ran out of money and so had to cut corners. As such, the rooms all have "drying agent" packets (re: desiccant) underneath the carpets. The girls are told to be careful that the desiccant doesn't get wet, as bad things will happen. This comes back up in episode 7 when a typhoon hits. The cut corners seemingly also include shoddy roofing work, such that one girl - Miyako - has to set out a bucket whenever it rains due to a leak in her ceiling. This leads to a panic over the typhoon, as the bucket's filling up fast. (A previous episode revealed that Miyako hasn't done a good job of managing the money her parents have been sending her, and so she likely can't afford to move to a better facility.)Based on what the girls were told, they think that there's an actual risk of a *fire* happening if the desiccant gets wet... and sure enough, a random desiccant packet they remove from under the carpet seemingly feels warm. To "test" whether or not their notion is true, Miyako takes the packet and throws it off of her balcony onto the lawn below. When nothing happens, it's a question of whether or not the thing got so saturated it couldn't ignite. So - could a desiccant packet get hot, let alone catch fire, if exposed to water? |
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Post by the light works on Jan 14, 2019 2:52:17 GMT
"Hidamari Sketch", episodes 3 and 7. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hidamari_Sketch_episodesThe premise behind the show is that four girls become unlikely friends after they room in the same apartment complex near the magnet high school they all go to. In episode 3, it's revealed that when the landlady was last redoing the building, she ran out of money and so had to cut corners. As such, the rooms all have "drying agent" packets (re: desiccant) underneath the carpets. The girls are told to be careful that the desiccant doesn't get wet, as bad things will happen. This comes back up in episode 7 when a typhoon hits. The cut corners seemingly also include shoddy roofing work, such that one girl - Miyako - has to set out a bucket whenever it rains due to a leak in her ceiling. This leads to a panic over the typhoon, as the bucket's filling up fast. (A previous episode revealed that Miyako hasn't done a good job of managing the money her parents have been sending her, and so she likely can't afford to move to a better facility.)Based on what the girls were told, they think that there's an actual risk of a *fire* happening if the desiccant gets wet... and sure enough, a random desiccant packet they remove from under the carpet seemingly feels warm. To "test" whether or not their notion is true, Miyako takes the packet and throws it off of her balcony onto the lawn below. When nothing happens, it's a question of whether or not the thing got so saturated it couldn't ignite. So - could a desiccant packet get hot, let alone catch fire, if exposed to water? this is not sufficiently plausible to me to even bother dampening a dessicant packet and coming back with my thermal imager in a few minutes. |
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Post by ironhold on Jan 16, 2019 17:27:05 GMT
Re-watched the first part of the series, including episode #2, which is where this first comes up (got goofed on the number).
In #2, they were told that the desiccant bags would "explode" if they got wet, something that the characters misinterpreted as catching fire instead of, say, bursting open forcefully.
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Post by the light works on Jan 16, 2019 17:55:34 GMT
Re-watched the first part of the series, including episode #2, which is where this first comes up (got goofed on the number). In #2, they were told that the desiccant bags would "explode" if they got wet, something that the characters misinterpreted as catching fire instead of, say, bursting open forcefully. the most common chemical desiccant I am familiar with mixes with airborne humidity to produce a liquid solution. it is sold under the name {redacted} and use consists of filling a plastic chemical reservoir with pellets, and then periodically emptying the catchbasin from below the reservoir and refilling the reservoir. the second most common is the dessicant packets in darned near everything, which to the best of my knowledge are a superdry material which simply absorbs the moisture with no chemical reaction. I do recall hearing about anhydrous minerals that absorb water and expand, but not violently enough to be called an explosion. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Jan 16, 2019 18:35:08 GMT
the most common chemical desiccant I am familiar with mixes with airborne humidity to produce a liquid solution. it is sold under the name {redacted}... I need to get some desiccant and looked for Redacted on the internet, but didn't find anything under that name. |
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Post by wvengineer on Jan 16, 2019 20:01:09 GMT
It's been a while since I have dealt with it, but desiccants normally get a bit cooler when they absorb moisture. In fact in automated systems like building HVAC and industrial compressed air dryers, the desiccants used are heated to force moisture out and dry the desiccant so it can be reused.
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Post by the light works on Jan 17, 2019 3:48:01 GMT
the most common chemical desiccant I am familiar with mixes with airborne humidity to produce a liquid solution. it is sold under the name {redacted}... I need to get some desiccant and looked for Redacted on the internet, but didn't find anything under that name. it's a messy option. I've also seen plug in desiccant packs that are basically a rechargable dehumidifier. you put it in a damp room and it absorbs moisture, then you plug it in and it evaporates it back into the air. it's kind of a good idea to plug it in, in a different room than the one you are trying to dry. |
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Post by ironhold on Jan 17, 2019 5:13:25 GMT
Re-watched the first part of the series, including episode #2, which is where this first comes up (got goofed on the number). In #2, they were told that the desiccant bags would "explode" if they got wet, something that the characters misinterpreted as catching fire instead of, say, bursting open forcefully. the most common chemical desiccant I am familiar with mixes with airborne humidity to produce a liquid solution. it is sold under the name {redacted} and use consists of filling a plastic chemical reservoir with pellets, and then periodically emptying the catchbasin from below the reservoir and refilling the reservoir. the second most common is the dessicant packets in darned near everything, which to the best of my knowledge are a superdry material which simply absorbs the moisture with no chemical reaction. I do recall hearing about anhydrous minerals that absorb water and expand, but not violently enough to be called an explosion. If it expands enough to, say, burst open the container it's in, could that be considered an "explosion" to a layperson? Whatever the material is, it's in packets that appear to be about the size of yen notes, if smaller. And for the record, Miyako, the one who thought it was going to catch fire, is frequently depicted as being somewhat clueless, so the bar for "what defines an explosion?" is indeed pretty low. That being said though, she loves her friends dearly (in one episode going to length to care for one who was seriously ill), and it's implied that she may even have a a type of fox spirit known as a kitsune watching over her (and by extension, the others). |
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Post by the light works on Jan 17, 2019 5:53:06 GMT
the most common chemical desiccant I am familiar with mixes with airborne humidity to produce a liquid solution. it is sold under the name {redacted} and use consists of filling a plastic chemical reservoir with pellets, and then periodically emptying the catchbasin from below the reservoir and refilling the reservoir. the second most common is the dessicant packets in darned near everything, which to the best of my knowledge are a superdry material which simply absorbs the moisture with no chemical reaction. I do recall hearing about anhydrous minerals that absorb water and expand, but not violently enough to be called an explosion. If it expands enough to, say, burst open the container it's in, could that be considered an "explosion" to a layperson? Whatever the material is, it's in packets that appear to be about the size of yen notes, if smaller. And for the record, Miyako, the one who thought it was going to catch fire, is frequently depicted as being somewhat clueless, so the bar for "what defines an explosion?" is indeed pretty low. That being said though, she loves her friends dearly (in one episode going to length to care for one who was seriously ill), and it's implied that she may even have a a type of fox spirit known as a kitsune watching over her (and by extension, the others). the context I am familiar with it is in strata feet thick, and damaging houses by causing the ground to heave. it would have to be in a rigid container with no expansion space to crack a container. |
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Post by ironhold on Jan 17, 2019 5:56:20 GMT
the context I am familiar with it is in strata feet thick, and damaging houses by causing the ground to heave. it would have to be in a rigid container with no expansion space to crack a container. This would be more "material inside the packet expands until the packet itself bursts, possibly causing a loud noise in the process. |
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Post by mrfatso on Jan 17, 2019 9:30:22 GMT
In order for the desiccant to work it needs a porous container or packet that allows water molecules to pass through into it this also allows gasses to pass outwards, I doubt enough pressure would build up inside them to create a bang or a pop they would simply burst open,
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Post by the light works on Jan 17, 2019 14:59:24 GMT
the context I am familiar with it is in strata feet thick, and damaging houses by causing the ground to heave. it would have to be in a rigid container with no expansion space to crack a container. This would be more "material inside the packet expands until the packet itself bursts, possibly causing a loud noise in the process. so rigid "packet" with 0% room for expansion. as I said. we're talking about a material that expands maybe 1% |
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