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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I guess my natural avoidance of crowded situations has paid off all these years.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Interesting article. I wonder how close the analogies with gas and fluid dynamics are to real-world crowd pressures? Is it really that precise, mathematically? Or its this just an approximation reached by the researchers?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> -- Bob Primak</div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, November 4, 2022 at 06:52:47 PM EDT, john rudy <jjrudy1@comcast.net> wrote:
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--></style><div><div class="yiv8959594784WordSection1"><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.wired.com/story/how-peaceful-crowds-turn-into-a-deadly-crush/">https://www.wired.com/story/how-peaceful-crowds-turn-into-a-deadly-crush/</a></span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Sophomore year in college we had a tug of war between the freshmen and the sophomores. Maybe 300-400 on each side. Used a huge rope, like what is used by barges to pull boats. The rope broke in the middle and each side thought they were winning. The people near the ends couldn’t see the middle and they pulled harder. People in the middle dropped the rope and so about 20’ of rope on each side started swinging. No one was killed but some were injured by the flying rope.</span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">This was one of the events of Field Day, not the most dangerous. Some years later MIT canceled Field Day.</span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">John Rudy</span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">781-861-0402</span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">781-718-8334 (cell)</span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:John.rudy@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:John.rudy@alum.mit.edu">John.rudy@alum.mit.edu</a> </span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">13 Hawthorne Lane</span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bedford, MA 01730-1047</span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="99" height="94" style="width:1.0312in;min-height:.9791in;" id="yiv8959594784Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:Bz9RivRPi4cFNEDazfGu" yahoo_partid="1.2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"></span></p><p class="yiv8959594784MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div>===============================================<br>::The Lexington Computer and Technology Group Mailing List::<br>Reply goes to sender only; Reply All to send to list.<br>Send to the list: <a ymailto="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us" href="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us">LCTG@lists.toku.us</a> Message archives: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/</a><br>To subscribe: email <a ymailto="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us" href="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us">lctg-subscribe@toku.us</a> To unsubscribe: email <a ymailto="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us" href="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us">lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us</a><br>Future and Past meeting information: <a href="http://LCTG.toku.us" target="_blank">http://LCTG.toku.us</a><br>List information: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us</a><br>This message was sent to <a ymailto="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com." href="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com.">bobprimak@yahoo.com.</a><br>Set your list options: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/bobprimak@yahoo.com" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/bobprimak@yahoo.com</a><br></div>
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