How to stay alive when a crowd turns crushy: "Think of a crowd of people like a wave pool, where choppy waters represent crush conditions. When individuals are facing in similar directions to their neighbors, the crowd moves together-much like a single wave moving through the pool. But if people move in different directions they start pushing against each other, and that's when things get choppy. So by detecting when movements in the crowd start to fall out of sync, the researchers can predict the development of dangerous conditions."
Monday, August 23, 2010
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you, plus sign, me, equal sign, US!
I was right in front of the stage when the panic began. God, it was awful. I tried shouting, "Everyone! Where (xi,yi) is the position of the ith person in the crowd, Θi is the angle of their heading, p(x) is the probability of x, and p(x,y) is the probability of both x and y! Look out!" But people just kept on crushing each other. I figure they couldn't hear me over the music and all the fire, so I screamed, "Hey! Some additional properties of this situation are where h(x) is the entropy of the random variable x and h(x,y) is the joint entropy of these variables, people, run!!!!" Nothing.
Heh^2
OR, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD JUϞT DIVΣ -N- SVRF IT.
This is why I run with a low velocity crowd.
I am with Art. The riot scene in "The Day of the Locust"--you have to ride the wave.