The Crash, Aftermath and Numerical Trivia
Posted in I have been out of the loop since Sunday. In order to spare my hands, shoulders, and body any more aches and pains answering questions (although thanks for the kind concerns.)- it went like this, more or less-
While driving to Ohio on Sunday via I-77 I struck the right guard rail at a 45 degree angle, (at 60 mph, 96.5 KM/H rate no less), did two or three 360s between several cars and slammed into the side of a bridge or some sort of concrete structure which turned me around and I proceeded to crash against this structure for about 65 feet (almost 20 meters) where the car came to a stop facing on-going traffic (This is all estimate of course). How I missed the cars I have no idea. I do know I hit
Factoids:
a) The airbag did not deploy for some reason, odd since I struck the passenger side front end so hard.
b) It was a miracle I did not hit anyone, I said that, but truly it was incredible.
c) I was wearing my seat belt of course. Having had one near-fatal accident years before. (I was the near fatality.)
d) The only injuries I sustained included a dislocated jaw (which I fixed- manually), cracked or bruised ribs, very bad bruising, mild concussion, and what feels like bilateral sprained shoulders. Overall it feels like being beaten with a 2×4. I can type now, but with difficulty, for short stints and inhaling and exhaling hurts.
e) Yes my car is destroyed, but they can be replaced.
f) Unfortunately I received a citation for “failure to control”.
g) That is it. Having been major accident free since my teens it was dissapointing to destroy a car, but glad nothing else or no one else.
Please forgive me if I am slow in getting to responses, (I may take some leave), and any blogging here will be pre-written material that is prepared before hand for just such occassion. It honestly hurts to type or move.
In the meantime I will enjoy, and hope you do, the fact that Google has a sense of humor with their calculator…For Douglas Adam fans e.g. he wrote Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy among others…
What is the answer to life, the universe and everything? Google’s answer to the query (The Answer).
Some Clues…
The atomic number of molybdenum.
The number of teeth all canines have.
The number of minutes it would take a theoretical “gravity train” to travel to any point on earth.
In one Grand Unified Theory, the Georgi-Glashow model, the inverse of the coupling
constant is approximately this number.
10! (10 factorial) seconds is exactly this number of days.
Messier object M(The Answer), a magnitude 5.0 diffuse nebula in the constellation Orion, also known as the Orion Nebula
The New General Catalogue object NGC (The Answer), a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus
The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on 1577 BC April 28 and ended
on 297 BC June 5. The duration of Saros series (The Answer) was 1280.1 years, and it
contained 72 solar eclipses.
The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on 1293 BC January 24 and ended on 59 April 15. The duration of Saros series (The Answer) was 1352.2 years, and it contained 76 lunar eclipses.
Gliese (The Answer) is a magnitude 7.17 K3 V orange dwarf nearby star (14.5 pc) in Sculptor, also known as HD 5133, CD-31°325, G269-049, GCTP 177.00, and LHS 1163.
Ross (The Answer) is a magnitude 11.52 dM4 e red dwarf nearby star (14.1 pc) in Orion,
also known as Gliese 206, G097-047, and GCTP 1259.00.
Jupiter’s moon Io hurtles around its orbit once every (The Answer) hours at a distance
of (The Answer)0,000 kilometers or so from the center of planet.
In January 2005, Asteroid 2001 DA (The Answer) was given the name Asteroid Douglasadams, named for the author Douglas Adams that popularized the number (The Answer) and died in 2001. With even his initials in the provisional designation, Brian G. Marsden, the director of the Minor Planet Center and the secretary for the naming committee, said, “This was sort of made for him, wasn’t it?”
oh yes, Fox Mulder- on X-files- it was his apartment number for awhile.
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Hey Wayne,
So sorry to hear about the crash but much more importantly it sounds like you’re going to be ok. May your recover be as thorough as it is quick.
Wayne,
Glad to hear that you are alright. Next time, just have your wife beat you with a 2×4 instead of going through all the trouble of wrecking your bmw.
Seriously, get well my friend. Fishing?
It seriously sucks to be in any kind of accident, and it’s good to know you’re ok.
I guess you’ll have to be content with making plans to take over the universe in the meantime?
Oh, and thanks for the fish.
Typing is woe.
Get well, get strong and get out of pain soon.
Be even more careful now because it sounds like you used up a lot of luck in that couple of seconds. Yow.
Glad to hear you are OK. As for the airbag, they are made for front or side collissions, and I think you had a worst case scenario angle hit that didn’t fit the profile for the bags to go off.