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busterwa said..
In saying that if its a cheap mass produced product the failure point could be anywhere

It could be kiter too, somehow massed up lines and now one is shorter then another.Which line is going to break first ?

Macroscien said..
so let's imagine girl is windsurfing and keep cheap aluminum boom which is about to break ....?at which end more likely?

Windsurfing young girl,,,,,,,,, so is this a question from the 70's .

or for the yachties,
your springlines' snagged around the centre cleat whilst trying to leave a dock and is on the verge of breaking, and if it breaks your blow down onto the Bertram stinkboat alongside in the pen.
Assuming you've moored to port, forward or reverse to avoid breaking line?

From her perspective, or our perspective?

Subsonic said..
From her perspective, or our perspective?

Yes.

The left side, from our perspective, has more weight on it due to it being longer; the weight of the line itself.

Not unlike a whale falling faster on the moon than a dog. (it does)

What?!

If you put two neutron stars 5km apart and let them go they would fall toward each other pretty damn fast. like that [clicks fingers].

Why? Because they have immense mass.

So, two objects fall toward each other at a speed depending on their combined mass.

So, a whale will fall faster toward the moon (and the moon toward the whale) faster than a dog.

...unless they are dropped at the same time, next to each other, in which case they'll fall even faster than the whale alone.

/coffee

dmitri said..

Macroscien said..

2 tendons connect bicep to the shoulder: the long one and the short one.
am waterstarting and getting pulled by 50 knts gust, one of the tendons is going to break.
Which one is it ?

Wish I didn't know the answer

Itd be a ligament

Clarence, you would be correct if the two ropes weren't sharing the load. But they are sharing the load, and the right hand rope will take the majority of the force.

Windpasser's diagram is basically the same as engineering science's "Tip to tail the arrows", although they don't actually tip to tail them.

One more ? Apologies if this is old.

This is a reverse rigging question
the left hand side of the load from the fulcrum point ( her hand ) is at a larger angle and the right hand side is an in-line load.
there is no mention of the lineal strength or shear strength of the rope anchor points either.
If utilising an m8 anchor point it is likely that the left side is close or near to yield and the right side is not at shear load and retains more strength.

if you were rigging on my job with ya chains at 160 degrees there would be a few questions.

trick question
0

Windpasser said..
If I buy a carton of beer, and have only had "3 beers" after 4 hours when asked "How many you had?"

How many beers are actually left?

what about your mates? Stand still watching while you drink the lot?

Anyway the answer is zero

Was a joke.....

A carton lasts 6 minutes these days

The carton was placed into the refrigerator at a 90 degree angle opposing the horizontal cooling shelf. Maybe two vessels remained.

By the time it hit the fridge there is no more memories from the people involved.

Did any one bother to ask if she was OK?