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I just had to see the first "crash" and I was convinced.

How much would it cost to get one of these at every High School in the country and make it a mandatory part of passing Driver's Ed and getting a Driver's license. I feel like it would be worth the expense.
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My grandchildren watched that thing once at my house. I could not believe it! And that woman thinks a South Park spoof is trashy? That program (Honey Boo-Boo) is what you find in the dictionary as the definition of trashy.
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After putting on my tin foil hat: it seems that it is a cheap and easy way for the government to check for holes in their existing detection systems using free labor from the public under the guise of making it a game show. Cheap compared to a consultant really.
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Seems that this took a lot of collaboration and secrecy: you'd think the marine biologist community and the dive school community would be well-known to each other, and then there were all the safety rules involving other people, like the brother and others who were in on it. Hard to pull off, but very touching, because Markie focused on Sarah's world, instead of her own or just a splashy (haha) public proposal.
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I think most floral foams are a foam of phenolic resin. Phenolic, especially when containing glass or cotton cloth, is commonly used as an insulating structural material in a lot of custom high voltage or high power electrical equipment because it can be machined, and it can take a lot of heat to damage it without burning. However, it can outgas a bunch of formaldehyde when decomposing from heat, so you don't usually want to be around when that happens.
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I worked in a bar when I was in college, and saw plenty of broken glassware.
Every bar and pub I know,hand-washes their mugs, pilsners and pints in a sink behind the bar.
Bar glassware takes a considerable beating even when the patrons are behaving.
On slow nights we’d make a few bucks on bar bets that we could drop a glass in the floor and catch it before it broke.
Those 9 oz water glasses with the wavy sides you see in diners and chain pancake houses will bounce on a hard floor if dropped correctly.
We’d drop one from about waist height on the tile floor, and it would bounce twice. If it hit the floor a third time it would shatter.
One customer explained how it worked. Apparently, the tempered glasses would absorb the energy of impacts. Eventually. the glass could take no more and even the slightest tap would cause it to shatter.
I’m not sure, but I suspect the same principle applies to bar glass stress as it applies to Prince Rupert’s drops.
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-06/shattering-strongest-glass
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