Big fast cars have big fast crashes, which means the repair bills come in just as big and just as fast.
This review chapter is an outline of the complex field of dynamic fracture mechanics and the material behavior during fast, crash-like loading events and the resulting short-time processes of initiation, propagation, and arrest of cracks.
They define a set of metrics that quantify both the failure detector speed (how fast crashes are detected) and accuracy (how well it avoids mistakes).
When it does, the water molecules move faster, crash into the more sluggish proteins, carbohydrates and fats, and jolt them into motion, raising the temperature of the food as a whole.
After eight weeks in which Michael R. Bloomberg immersed himself in what is almost certainly the fastest crash course in government in the history of the city, New Yorkers are about to see their new mayor unfiltered -- presented not through the television advertisements with which he defined himself for six months, but standing alone, starting with his inauguration speech on Tuesday.
An operating system that runs faster, crashes less, doesn't force you to log in as an administrator to install a printer, and is harder to infect with malware shouldn't be news.
"Yeah…but you could drive it really fast and crash it into a tree and die!" Well sure.
Pharmacology research has long suggested that drugs which take effect slowly and last for a long time are likely to be less addictive than those that hit fast and crash faster.
This brings up an interesting story because obesity, fast food crash diets, bad sandwiches, and the Bush administration's indefinite suspension of habeas corpus in the name of national security are really what we're all about these days.
Driving home drunk, he took a corner too fast and crashed into a utility pole.
