Talk:Head-on collision

mythbusters cite

does any one else agree that mythbusters is not cite-able as correct information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.127.13.248 (talk) 03:27, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

I do not believe any of the segment on mythbusters can be considered citeable experiments. Haveing said that i would imagine that they got this info from somewhere else initially. But no, I definitly do not think its okay to say: "However, experimentation in 2010 showed that", when referring to Jamie Hyman and Adam Savage messing about, these people are not scientists and seem to either have very little understanding of scientific method or just chose to ignore it. Dylanjbyrne (talk) 22:10, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

I think there ought to be a place in Wikipedia for citing sources like Mythbusters that illustrate or popularize a topic, so long as they are not misleading. I do have a problem with the phrase "it was previously thought" (who thought?) which falsely implies that the Mythbusters experiment was breaking new ground in physics. Jim Dixon 55104 (talk) 18:22, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

General definition

In general, "head-on collision" is a collision between two objects. It is called "head-on" because each object moves toward each other. 27.69.66.2 (talk) 09:54, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Rail transport list

How about Paddington train crash — Preceding unsigned comment added by AJ Pachano (talk • contribs) 03:22, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Table sorting

Just converted the list into table as requested. It doesn't look great though so I'm currently working on filling in the blanks and making it more consistent.

ThanksEat Your Makeup (talk) 20:50, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Sorted for now Eat Your Makeup (talk) 22:20, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

pure head-on collision

I read "Note: if the collision occurs at a station or junction, or trains are traveling in the same direction, then the collision is not a pure head-on collision".

So I understand that Paris'Gare de Lyon rail accident may be a kind of unpure head-on collision. I wonder if there is a list where there is the Paris'Gare de Lyon rail accident? 2A02:8425:642:D701:BF55:9F65:2A1C:85EB (talk) 18:35, 2 August 2022 (UTC)