🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.
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🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.
Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.
The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works.
@nexta That's why if you run to the back of the plane really really fast you drop out of the sky.
As a kid, the cartoon pink panther had this thing where he would step out of the house just before it hit the ground and I spent like half a day figuring out if that would work or not, only to realize it WOULD work if he jumped up at exactly the speed the house was falling when it hit the ground. Alas such a jump was not feasible. -
@nexta now do it at 400km/h from a jet, it'd only be like ~30G of acceleration
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🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.
Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.
The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works.
@nexta enthusiasts!
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🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.
Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.
The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works.
@nexta "Enthusiast"
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@nexta I had to read this several times before I realised what you meant was it was the same speed as the truck was travelling, not the car
@peterbrown @nexta me too
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@nexta I may be misremembering, but I think Mythbusters wanted to do something like this but it was judged to be too dangerous. This really is very neat!
@bodhipaksa @nexta yes, Jamie talked about this in an AMA recently
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🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.
Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.
The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works.
@nexta any chance this bot can can include alt text? Are replies monitored?
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@bodhipaksa @nexta yes, Jamie talked about this in an AMA recently
There's also a new podcast with Kari Byron and Tory Belleci called Mythfits and I think they referenced this exact video a few weeks back.
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@nexta now do it at 400km/h from a jet, it'd only be like ~30G of acceleration
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🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.
Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.
The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works.
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Ah - I was just wondering what kind of bomb-launching railgun they had in the fuselage!
I'd never heard of the A-5's unusual bomb bay configuration. Wikipedia explains that the payload "was propelled rearward at about 50 feet per second":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_A-5_Vigilante#Design
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🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.
Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.
The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works.
@nexta many years back, ZZ Top did a similar experiment where you’d sit in a spherical steel roll cage and they’d roll you out of the back of a pickup truck on the highway at high speed.
All was documented in their incredible music: “Master of Sparks”
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@nexta I had to read this several times before I realised what you meant was it was the same speed as the truck was travelling, not the car
@peterbrown @nexta same, I was watching the video looking for a car to show up
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Ah - I was just wondering what kind of bomb-launching railgun they had in the fuselage!
I'd never heard of the A-5's unusual bomb bay configuration. Wikipedia explains that the payload "was propelled rearward at about 50 feet per second":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_A-5_Vigilante#Design
@toddz My uncle flew a lot of exotic stuff -- he's the only person I know with a Mach 2+ pin -- and he told me about the A5. I was quite young so I might be responsible for the inaccuracy.
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@nexta mythbusters did it without risking anyone’s life
@Kierkegaanks @nexta Where's the fun in that?
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PS: Don't do this near light speed without changing the formula. A few other practical problems might show up too
@notsoloud @nexta xkcd relativistic baseball
You do not want to be the relativistic baseball. -
🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.
Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.
The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works.
@nexta That’s impressive! Logical, but impressive!
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🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.
Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.
The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works.
@nexta I worry that if I boost, other people might try this!
