Breaking Bad (here there be spoilers)

Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

Espy said:
It's just funny right? I mean, he's spent the ENTIRE DAMN SHOW trying to BE someone he isn't. The big bad crime boss. And then he really ends up just scrambling around like a crazy person trying to either keep everything from falling apart or else picking up the pieces of whatever he's ruined.

All because of pride.

This episode opens with him asking God to give him once chance to pull this off. At the very least it's symbolic of him letting go of his pride. Of his pride in himself, his abilities and the pride in what he wants to be seen as instead of what he really is. A man terrified to die.

So when he admits to Skyler it was all about him, I mean, BAM. Thats the show right there. Thats the truth finally taking place. Gone are the speeches, that got longer and longer as the show went on, to justify who he is and what he had done. Now it's just, "Yeah, it was all about me". Thats it.

And he succeeds in pulling off his plan because of it. Because he humbled himself. Hell, look at the shots. Go back and watch it again. He's in the BACKGROUND of the show. He's out of focus. Vince directed this ep and you damn well know he put Walt in certain places to emphasize this idea. It's just so fucking brilliant. There is not a better ending to this show. Period*.


*at least in my opinion. I'm open to someone explaining why it isn't the perfect ending for the show but I won't say you will have an easy time convincing me.
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A 90kg drug dealer's carcass is placed in a bath of acid in a metal container, and the carcass decays exponentially at a rate of 33 grams per deciday. Meanwhile, the 100 kg metal tub reacts to the acid, decaying at a rate of 5 grams per hour. The tub will be structurally incapable of holding when the metal bottom, which forms an ellipse with semimajor axis 1m and semiminor axis 0.5m, thinning linearly from 1 cm at the edge to 0.25 cm at the centroid, reaches a thickness of less than 1mm over 50% of the bottom area. Also, the acid potency is dropping at a rate of a^0.3, where a is the common hydrogen ion dispersal rate for muriatic acid. Will the drug dealer's body decay before the tub fails?

For bonus points, consider that an identical tub holding a 120 kg man is on a train approaching 0.9c. Accounting for Lorentz contraction, which body or tub will fail first?
 
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