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Re:Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing... by sliken on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:28AM (#20826691)
Ha, sorry, yes. I confused 10 times as long with 10 times as far... I should have double checked the math.

Still dropping your head an inch (painful) is a nice reminder of how much energy is involved from normal riding height.

Re:Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing... by scarejunba on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:10AM (#20827393)
Well, it's still worse than 10 times as bad because there are elasticity effects. You can see this on your nose. There is a force you can use to squeeze it that won't do anything but much more and you can break the blood vessels in it and give you a bruise. You could do that first thing many times but there's a threshold effect.

Or a balloon. It recovers from lots of pressing, even repeatedly. But there's a pressure from which it's never going to recover and crossing that threshold has binary outcome.