Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Try falling and not hitting your head unless
> you're an acrobat cushioning the blow you can't do
> it.
>
He was probably wearing some kind of headdress which may have helped cushion the fall.
>
> More speculation. Have you ever tried cutting a
> bone with a flint knife? I've tried it with a
> steel knife and it's incredibly difficult.
It depends on how green the bone is, and what bone you're cutting, and how. Surgeons still use flint for some delicate operations, BTW.
>
> All you have to is pile assumptions on top of
> assumptions to make this work and you're right.
> However just as soon as somebody analyzes the
> physics of crashes this one will go into the
> baloney file too.
The physics involved in a chariot crash aren't too different from ones involving horse-drawn carts of any type. In a crash, you will go forward, unless you are braced. And in most horse cart accidents, things happen too quickly for you to be braced.
