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An elegant weapon… for a more civilized age.
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GIves new meaning to the idiom “butting heads.”
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My head hurts.
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That’s not really a “new” meaning so much as the literal origin of the idiom.
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Boom goes the dynamite!
It’s sort of an elegant dance. I wonder if that is always how it’s done.
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So I normally wouldn’t post a corporate commercial here but these guys get points for having Marty Stouffer from Wild America narrate.
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If you’ve ever been close to it (domestic rams here), the videos just don’t do it justice.
(Google’s $#!¥ keyboard doesn’t think that there is a plural for “ram” that doesn’t mean a sports team.)
For a real impulse you want musk oxen. Two animals about 600lb each, speed differential of 50mph, dispersed in maybe .2sec?
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We clearly see the metaphor, Rob.
Napkin math, assuming a linear inelastic collision between oxen of equal mass: 1/2(285kg*11.18m/s^2) = 17.8kJ impulse per each oxen. Say an average human weights about 62kg, so that’s very roughly equivalent force of two average humans butting heads, each traveling about 24m/s or ~54mph. Might need some Advil after that.
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