scottley@scottley@infosec.exchange
Today's thought comes to us from my high school physics teacher. As a young college student while living in the dorms, he was messing around with a bunch of other physics students, "experimenting with inertia". My teacher was Hawaiin and we referred to him as Kumu.
Setup: a hallway with stairs at the end and a pile of mattresses at the bottom... a chair and a rope tying the chair to a door at a length where the chair stopped just before the stairs.
Test: get propelled down the hallway and when the chair abruptly stops, you continue on a trajectory to the mattresses...
Well... as someone studying, Kumu decided a little z acceleration would make the experiment more interesting. Unfortunately the test apparatus didn't control for rotational acceleration and Kumu rotated while in the air. Kumu also failed to account for the additional x dimension increase caused by the insertion of energy into the system.
Kumu landed on his head, broke his neck and lived his life paralyzed from just below his heart down.
A little bit of knowledge and a lack of experience or ability to control said knowledge can be incredibly risky and tends to have a severe negative impact on most outcomes.