🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.
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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!
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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 this is really cool
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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.
Brave man! (even if the physics is correct, you have to trust the machine to work correctly, haha)
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@nexta
I feel like I'd want to have full motorcycle safety gear just in case the velocity didn't match and you wound up unceremoniously yeeted into a slide -
🤯 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 so this vid is actually interesting?
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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 It reminds me very much of the classic pendulum experiments where a person releases a pendulum on a long arc and it never hits them because ... pendulum.
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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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