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Obstacles Near Emergency Exits Speed Evacuation
BuzzSkyline writes "Despite fire codes that require emergency exits be clear of obstacles, some types of obstacles actually speed evacuation. The counterintuitive conclusion resulted from a series of experiments performed at a TV studio in Japan. Researchers from the University of Tokyo asked 50 volunteers to exit the studio through a narrow door. Video tapes of the experiments show that people made it out quickest when a pole was placed about 30 degrees to one side of the exit. The lead researcher believes an obstacle reduces jamming and friction among people in crowds by decreasing conflicts as the crowd presses toward the exit. A paper describing the research is scheduled to appear in the journal Physical Review E in September, but a preprint is available on the Physics Arxiv."
The Japanese have made a tremendous amount of scientific contributions to mankind -- despite specious claims that the Japanese are not "creative". Such accomplishments include the blue light-emitting diode, part of the foundation of quantum physics, etc.
Why have the Japanese accomplished so much, yet the Africans have accomplished so little? Is the difference in accomplishments due to a difference in IQ? Average African IQ is about 20 points less than average Japanese IQ.
Africans can dance, are athletic and have long dicks. They don't need tech toys to impress women.
They should have tried the same experiment with 50 BLACK MEN, rather than 50 normal, decent Japanese people, who actually care about the people around them.
You can bet with 50 black men, it would turn into a mass brawl as each one of them tried to impose his will on everybody else...
The reason people have difficulty exiting buildings in fire is because most people are INCREDIBLY selfish and incapable of thinking about others, so they stand around immediately outside the exit, after getting out, after all, 'they're alright Jack'. And then others actually WALK OVER people who have fallen in front of them, rather than helping them up.
Just look at video footage of BLACKS storming into a shop during a sale, when somebody falls over, they couldn't care LESS - because that is how blacks are.
Now, rather than modding me down, anybody care to PROVE ME WRONG?
Good luck to your children, by the way - they're going to be living in the midst of a racial civil war, because you would rather THEY die, than you get called a nasty name... ('Racist', 'Racist', 'Racist'.)
Your children will hate you.
"and research the big shopping spree the day after thanksgiving when BLACK people trample each other trying to get in to the local Walmart when the doors just open"
There. Fixed that for ya.
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