@yurnidiot

context:

harvesting #durian in the #philippines or #thailand

someone up high is cutting off the fruit and dropping it down

it's a heavy hard fruit, a hit to the noggin is definitely life threatening, and durian has killed

it also has lots of big sharp spikes, that's how it catches in the burlap

i'd be dead within the first hour of work

@yurnidiot

the view of the #durian harvesting process from the guy or gal up in the tree:

@benroyce @yurnidiot 👀‼️

Good LORD - the SPEED on those fuckers... 😳

It would be SO flippin' easy to just *slightly* misjudge your catch & take a Bowser nut to the knee/shin 😬🦴

Or if it drops before someone's ready? 🫣

Note: apparently durian trees grow over *FORTY METERS* tall in the wild, but are typically kept to 20 m in orchards.

v = √(2gd) = √(2*9.81 m/s²*20 m)
v = √(392.4 m²/s²) = 19.8 m/s
19.8 m/s = 71.3 km/h = 44.3 mph

...yeah that fruit could end you.👀💀

@glennbone 🤣

"This Bowser nut could end you" does have some WILDLY different interpretations!😏

(Also: because I'm a massive nerd, I did more maths on the fruitfall:

The most powerful 9 mm bullet weighs 3.9 g & travels at 610 m/s (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9%C3%9719mm_Parabellum )

Kinetic energy of a 9 mm bullet = ½*m*v² = 0.5*0.0039kg*(610m/s)² = 729 J

Avg. durian weighs ~4 kg

Ek of a falling durian = 0.5*4kg*(19.8m/s)² = 784 J

I.e. an average Bowser nut is more forceful than the fastest 9 mm bullet. 😂)