If you are one of those who thinks that a ping-pong (table tennis) ball is only good for playing ping-pong (table tennis) then you’d be wrong. Researchers across the globe have found them useful in many ways – for example: ○ To simulate snow avalanches (videos here in .avi format) ○ As a surgical aid […]
Tag: avalanche
Autopsy of a snowman & Dr. Butt’s patterns of deaths
Video of an autopsy of a snowman (via onetruemedia, HT Jennifer Ouellette): BUTT: For general background to this phenomenon, we recommend Dr Butt’s study: “Patterns of death among avalanche fatalities: a 21-year review,” Jeff Boyd, MBBS, Pascal Haegeli, PhD, Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD MHSc, Michael Shuster, MD, John C. Butt, MD CM, Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2009 […]
Dual-use: Anti-Bird, Pro-Avalanche
If you have a problem with surfeit of birds or a lack of avalanches, this invention offers a possible dual solution: NOISE GENERATING DEVICE TO SCARE BIRDS OR TRIGGER AVALANCHES, Michael Eggers, US patent application number: 12/303,141, Filing date: Jun 5, 2007.