alt Hacker News> the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour), killing 21 and injuring 150 people.
That sounds truly horrifying. My intuition about molasses at that volume is all wrong.
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rexskimmer • today at 12:24 PM
That's shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluids for you.
And it even happened in January at that.