Old Time Family Baseball: After Release From Astros, Rick Ankiel's Career is Probably Over

oldtimefamilybaseball:

One day I’ll enjoy telling my grandchildren about Rick Ankiel. Provided that society hasn’t crumbled, the sun hasn’t exploded, and human beings are still the dominant creatures on earth. (Today, while thinking about “financial planning” I realized that most of my thoughts kept coming back to ‘what…

jtotheizzoe: We never sit here under the weight of all this air, the 5 x 10^18 kg of atmosphere that sits above everyone on Earth, and say “Gosh, that sure is heavy!” You don’t realize just how powerful that 1 bar (~100 kPa) of pressure is until a train car is filled with steam, allowed to cool, and then implodes ohmygod did that just happen? For more implosion goodness, check out this awesome video from Veritasium.
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jtotheizzoe:

We never sit here under the weight of all this air, the 5 x 10^18 kg of atmosphere that sits above everyone on Earth, and say “Gosh, that sure is heavy!”

You don’t realize just how powerful that 1 bar (~100 kPa) of pressure is until a train car is filled with steam, allowed to cool, and then implodes ohmygod did that just happen?

For more implosion goodness, check out this awesome video from Veritasium.

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