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Postby Taro Toporific » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:54 pm

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Mainichi - August 17, 2009 OSAKA --A university student here died after a test on a concrete canoe in the Yodogawa River went disastrously awry on Sunday afternoon...more...
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Postby Ketou » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:08 pm

Possible Darwin Award? Testing a concrete canoe without a life jacket when you can't swim.
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Postby osopolar » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:13 pm

Ketou wrote:Possible Darwin Award? Testing a concrete canoe without a life jacket when you can't swim.


definite Darwin Awards nominee..

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Postby Mike Oxlong » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:15 pm

The body of Ken Kitamura, 19, was found by firefighters at the bottom of the river, about an hour after the canoe capsized. He was taken to hospital, but died shortly afterwards.

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Postby Taro Toporific » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:22 pm

Ketou wrote:Possible Darwin Award? Testing a concrete canoe without a life jacket when you can't swim.


....In a river that's mostly 1 meter deep!
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Postby xenomorph42 » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:29 pm

Ketou wrote:Possible Darwin Award? Testing a concrete canoe without a life jacket when you can't swim.


Seriously, what kind of an idiot would even think of making a canoe out of concrete? And on top of that, can't swim and no life jacket?? Unfucking believable!
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Postby IkemenTommy » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:32 pm

Taro Toporific wrote:
....In a river that's mostly 1 meter deep!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:poh: :poh: :poh:
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Postby Cyka UchuuJin » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:34 pm

IkemenTommy wrote::rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:poh: :poh: :poh:
:clap: :clap: :clap:
I'm so going to hell for this. :twisted:



i'm right there with ya. the amount of genius this took...

at least when russians do something this retarded/dangerous, they're completely drunk. what's this guy's excuse?
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Postby IkemenTommy » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:42 pm

Cyka UchuuJin wrote:what's this guy's excuse?

The Japanese education system?
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Postby Mike Oxlong » Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:07 am

I think making concrete canoes is a fairly standard deal in many civil engineering schools...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_canoe
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Postby waruta » Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:15 am

Hey! Concrete floats....as long as the engineering is sound. But then again without a lifejacket, either he had a darwin candidate or had much faith in design/theory.
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Postby Level3 » Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:28 am

Concrete canoe competitions are common at uni in the USA, too.

It's an engineering challenge, but not as impossible as you'd think.
After all, most ships today are floating constructs of steel.

BUT (and it's a big BUT)

You're supposed to wear a friggin LIFE JACKET at least, and a helmet!!!!

I'd continue ragging on civvies, but it would be bad karma.

Probably bad luck and wasn't wearing a helmet either and banged his head on the sinking canoe, instant death or knocked out and drowned immediately . Keeping in mind that nobody "dies" in Japan until they're taken to a hospital and a doctor pronounces them "dead", even someone cut in half by a train isn't "dead" until taken to a hospital and examined by a doctor.

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Postby Greji » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:02 pm

xenomorph42 wrote:Seriously, what kind of an idiot would even think of making a canoe out of concrete? And on top of that, can't swim and no life jacket?? Unfucking believable!


The US made warships out of concrete in WWII....
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Postby xenomorph42 » Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:34 pm

Greji wrote:The US made warships out of concrete in WWII....
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Yea, but a canoe???
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Postby amdg » Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:01 pm

xenomorph42 wrote:Yea, but a canoe???


That's exactly right. A viable concrete canoe is harder to make because it's smaller than a warship. It's even pretty easy to make a smallish 35 foot yacht out of concrete.

For any floating vessel, all you have to do is make sure you displace more water than the weight of the vessel. Concrete, steel and even lead boats can be made so long as they are big enough to displace enough water to keep them afloat.

Canoes, on the other hand, typically displace very little water so they have to be made of very light materials. There's no advantage to making a concrete canoe, other than bragging rights.
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Postby FG Lurker » Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:07 pm

Taro Toporific wrote:....In a river that's mostly 1 meter deep!

I'm not sure of the Yodogawa's normal depth or exactly where the guy dropped his canoe into the water. The river is running very high right now though after all the rain we have been getting.
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Postby Kanchou » Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:52 pm

In the US, their parents would be suing the university. In Japan, they get made fun of by foreign devils on some irrelevant website.

FWIW, I made a boat out of cardboard when I was in the 6th grade... worked fine but we didn't make it fast enough to win the race.
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Postby dimwit » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:47 pm

My guess is they built it as part of a engineering school competition and decided to test it prior to a race. Unfortunately their understanding of civil engineer was better than their understanding of fluid dynmanics. If these are the circumstances than it is an interesting question as to whether the unviersity should be held accountable for the accident.
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Re: Concrete canoe floats -- J-student in it drowns

Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:39 pm

Not really topic related, but needed something about concrete...

Very concrete ideas: 10 Coolest Gadgets and Furniture Made of Concrete...(unfortunately for Japan, "lining rivers" is not one of the suggestions...)
http://www.oddee.com/item_98317.aspx
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Re: Concrete canoe floats -- J-student in it drowns

Postby matsuki » Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:55 pm

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:unfortunately for Japan, "lining rivers" is not one of the suggestions...)


I've always wondered what's up with that shit...even in BFE Hokkaido, in the majestic wilderness, there are these blocky ass waterfalls on the concrete lined rivers...WTF?
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Re: Concrete canoe floats -- J-student in it drowns

Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:21 pm

chokonen888 wrote:I've always wondered what's up with that shit...even in BFE Hokkaido, in the majestic wilderness, there are these blocky ass waterfalls on the concrete lined rivers...WTF?


You can only have so many useful pork-barrel projects before you're forced to turn your attention in other directions...
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Re: Concrete canoe floats -- J-student in it drowns

Postby matsuki » Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:51 pm

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:
chokonen888 wrote:I've always wondered what's up with that shit...even in BFE Hokkaido, in the majestic wilderness, there are these blocky ass waterfalls on the concrete lined rivers...WTF?


You can only have so many useful pork-barrel projects before you're forced to turn your attention in other directions...


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Re: Concrete canoe floats -- J-student in it drowns

Postby Coligny » Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:54 pm

chokonen888 wrote:
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:
chokonen888 wrote:I've always wondered what's up with that shit...even in BFE Hokkaido, in the majestic wilderness, there are these blocky ass waterfalls on the concrete lined rivers...WTF?


You can only have so many useful pork-barrel projects before you're forced to turn your attention in other directions...


LOL, gottam this cuntry PLANET is fucked up.



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