Learning how to slow down. It can be a huge problem.
Quick story. There's this guy who crawls into his car, backs it out into the street, then puts it in first and roars up to the house, deliberately crashing it into the foundation. Drugs and alcohol are not involved. A marital problem is not the issue. Nor had he been listening to Rage Against the Machine or Limp Bizkit. And, he had not had a breakfast of Twinkies and soda. The crash was enacted for the sake of science. The man's name was Carl C. Clark, and he rammed the family car into the foundation of their house in order to test an air bag mounted on the bumper of his car. Totally bizarre. It freaked out his wife -- an understatement -- but fortunately for him, she got over it. She knew that Clark was perhaps what we'd call eccentric. Brilliant, but in an odd way.
Clark, who died in 2006 at age 82, was interested in the effects of acceleration and sudden deceleration on the human body, and as a result, his work is behind many of the measures that enable astronauts to survive...
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