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The brutal physics of the "milk crate challenge"
2021-09-09 00:00:00
The "milk crate challenge" erupted a few weeks ago on Tik Tok; it consists of people attempting to ascend and descend a pyramidal staircase made of milk crates. Behold …
As with various former loopy social-media challenges — such as the infamous "Tide Pod Challenge" — people have been injuring the crap out of themselves, doctors are wearily urging people not to mimic the incredibly stupid things they see others do online, and nobody is heeding the warnings. This is why packet-switched data was invented, apparently.
Nonetheless! If you want to understand precisely why the milk crate challenge is so particularly hard to beat, here's a Wired video with engineer and former NASA researcher Nehemiah Mabry breaking down the physics.
The most interesting thing to me is that people most often fall when they attempt the first step downwards. In the video, Mabry talks about why that is …
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