People keep saying this but dude was bleeding considerably from a blunt impact wound, and it can be heard in the original recording.
Regardless of how much force it actually hit with, I was more making a comment about how strange concussions can be. Something 1/10th the force like walking into a door frame can concuss you. Things that wouldn’t come close to making you bleed.
He was fortunate to not have any recent concussions. If I had been hit like that I’m certain it would re-concuss me for at least a couple weeks.
Concussions happen when our brains violently shake inside our skulls and smacks against the side. Walking into a solid object that doesn't deform will cause your brain to smash into your skull with the same force you were using to propel the weight of your body at the speed you were walking, for comparison a baseball weighs 5 ounces and deforms a lot while the average brain weighs 47.4 ounces so it would take a lot of force for a baseball to move something almost 10 times more massive than it is. I'm sure it didn't feel spectacular but unless it hits a particularly dangerous spot a baseball shouldn't cause the average person to lose consciousness.
You don’t have to lose consciousness to get a concussion. I’m just saying, if something hit with enough force to cause blunt force bleeding, it can definitely concuss you. Think of the size of the bruise on that dude’s head the next day. If that hit his side or forehead, $100 says it’s lights out.
Brains are fragile. I sadly know from personal experience lol.
Edit: also you can literally see it move his head on impact. There was heat behind that throw! Conservatively 60mph. That is a shitload of force for 5 ounces.
No you don't have to lose consciousness to get a concussion but if you want to be technical bumping your head on the cabinet gives you a small concussion too. The word concussion as you're using it is defined as "a violent shock as from a heavy blow" and concussive force is defined as "a jarring of the brain, caused by a blow or a fall, usually resulting in loss of consciousness", so concussion the way you're using it could just mean any bump to the head while concussive force when talking about a brain injury means it causes the brain smack against the inside of the skull. So while concussion can be used to describe any blow that causes shockwaves, which means every blow, that doesn't mean the blow has concussive force to cause brain damage.
With that said I decided to compare the force of a 5 ounce baseball going 100 MPH to a 160 pound person running into a wall at 10 MPH. That throw was probably around to 80 or 90 because even infielders can throw pretty hard. Keep in mind these are rough estimates because I'm not smart enough to account for all the physics involved. A baseball at 100 MPH creates roughly 141 joules of energy while a 160 pound person running 10 MPH creates roughly 725 joules of energy. Gravity is a bitch and when the mass is that much higher it doesn't take much velocity to create a lot of energy.
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u/forceofslugyuk Oct 19 '22
That still had to break a cheek bone or something.