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Beare's Law of Accelerating Catastrophe at Sea - BLAC

At sea a problem can accelerate into a crisis at a rate proportional to the conditions
An example of Beare's Law of Accelerating Catastrophe at Sea - BLAC.

Imagine you are at sea and sailing along nicely a few miles off the coast of Corsica. You have the Genoa poled out and are running downwind. You are single handed. You pop down below to make yourself a cup of tea. Everything is fine. All of a sudden the wind shifts and you gybe. The pole slams across the forestay bent; the genoa is backed and the pole is trapped under the sail. As the boat lurches you are scolded with coffee. You rush on deck to sea the wind picking up and the boat floundering.

You are confident you will soon bring things under control. However, the wind is gusting alarmingly. A squawl from the hills. You cannot get the whisker pole off to furl the sail. You look up and in horror you see a ship coming at you dead ahead. The wind gusts and the boat is knocked down. You slip and land hard on deck bruising your arm.

And so it accumulates as you experience Beare's Law of Accelerating Catastrophe at Sea - BLAC.
by Angus Beare December 15, 2008
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Centripetal acceleration

The acceleration towards the center of the circle is known as centripetal acceleration.

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Accelerator

Known as the 1st ranked level 5 in all of academy city, he's the truest villain of em all and he's a cold blooded killer............. With a soft spot for his loli sidekick (last order), he has the ability to control vectors such as momentum, heat and electricity and can even redirect the flow of blood in one's body with a single touch resulting in their organs exploding from the inside and yes he can stomp Goku's ass and can solo the dragon ball universe with the exception of angels and the Omni Kings
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oh oh oh time to accelerate

The quote you usually hear from friendly Lúcio when you expect him to heal you up.
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Someone who drinks an extreme amout of alcohol daily.
Jon is an definitely an accelerated alcoholic.
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acceleration

the rate of change of velocity per unit of time.
a car accelerating from rest experiences a change in velocity over a specific time interval, meaning it has a positive acceleration.
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