Recovered from yesterday. Went barhopping a little tonight. Good time. Can’t remember the name of the bar, but it was pretty good. Had yummy fries there. Went to some other bar and had dessert. Spent a ridiculous amount of time arguing back and forth between Carin, Joe and myself whether a person could in fact be cut in half by an errant cable. The cable in question is an arresting cable from an aircraft carrier. The consensus between Carin and myself from the physics point of view is that such a cable, being of high mass, and under tension, when imparted with a very large amount of energy by an aircraft traveling at full speed, could indeed render a human body into two distinct segments by causing both trauma and acceleration to the lower torso. While the term “cut” is highly mutable in this scenario, the general upshot is that the forces involved are completely beyond human scale, and that despite the relative toughness of the human body (as attested to by Joe, the Johns Hopkins medical student (way to go, Joe, you rock)) it simply couldn’t withstand such an event. It was also agreed that timing and position would play a large role in determining the extent of damage.