F4 vs brick wall

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-09-27 07:38am

Who wins? Only one way to find out

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-09-27 07:47am

What F14? The vid said F4.

Wow. The plane just disappeared. That's totally awesome.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-09-27 07:57am

Given I'm on dial-up and have no intention of wasting precious bandwidth, I take it this is the F-4 ploughing into a concrete reinforced barrier at 500mph or so and turning into a sheet of tinfoil in the process, yes?

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-09-27 08:15am

Stofsk wrote:What F14? The vid said F4.

corrected

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-09-27 08:16am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Given I'm on dial-up and have no intention of wasting precious bandwidth, I take it this is the F-4 ploughing into a concrete reinforced barrier at 500mph or so and turning into a sheet of tinfoil in the process, yes?

Actually it doesn't show the remains, and we're lead to belive the bloody thing disintegrated. It's really quite cool, but it sounds like you've already seen it.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-09-27 09:10am

It's used loads of times on Discovery and BBC documentaries on what high-velocity impacts can be like, I think along with the freight-train hitting one of those nuclear waste cubes head on and derailling.

If I recall right (and I do), the only parts that really survive are the canted wingtips if only because the wall wasn't wide enough to have them plough in. It's quite comical, but I doubt there'd be anything left of the poor Phantom to fill anything more than a binbag.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2004-09-27 09:59am

Yeah, it's that one.

Pretty sweet.

Jean Paul · Post by **Jean Paul** » 2004-09-27 12:35pm

Wonder what would happen if it was a C17 with a M1A2 in the hold at the time...

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2004-09-27 01:22pm

Have they tested it against a 747 or something similiar?

Tolya · Post by **Tolya** » 2004-09-27 06:18pm

or a frozen chicken...

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-09-27 06:22pm

It crashes firefox everytime I get to a certain point...

Darth Paul · Post by **Darth Paul** » 2004-09-27 07:54pm

darthdavid wrote:It crashes firefox everytime I get to a certain point...

Same with Netscape - that must be some impact...

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-09-27 08:08pm

darthdavid wrote:It crashes firefox everytime I get to a certain point...

Right click and save is the way to go.
I noticed too, that it doesn't show the aftermath of the wall, that isn't conclusive enough for me.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2004-09-27 08:09pm

Whew, thank god for this video, I was just having the urge to run into a concrete wall at two thousand miles an hour. Saved my ass.

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2004-09-27 08:44pm

darthdavid wrote:It crashes firefox everytime I get to a certain point...

I've found that Firefox and Quicktime don't really get along. Just right-click and save to disk. That's what I always do.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-09-27 09:46pm

Hmm... flying brick vs a bunch of bricks and mortar? cool.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2004-09-27 09:47pm

A plane running into a concrete wall at high speeds and leaving no recognizable debris behind? conspiracy! Conspiracy!

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2004-09-27 10:39pm

Kamakazie Sith wrote:Have they tested it against a 747 or something similiar?

I tell you what, if I'm ever elected president, there'll be plenty of funding for expiriments that involve taking recordings of things running into other things at extremely high speed.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-27 10:58pm

Sriad wrote:
Kamakazie Sith wrote:Have they tested it against a 747 or something similiar?
I tell you what, if I'm ever elected president, there'll be plenty of funding for expiriments that involve taking recordings of things running into other things at extremely high speed.

SRIAD FOR PRESIDENT!

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2004-09-27 11:28pm

Rogue 9 wrote:
Sriad wrote:
Kamakazie Sith wrote:Have they tested it against a 747 or something similiar?
I tell you what, if I'm ever elected president, there'll be plenty of funding for expiriments that involve taking recordings of things running into other things at extremely high speed.
SRIAD FOR PRESIDENT!

I second that!

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-09-27 11:30pm

Phantasee wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:
Sriad wrote: I tell you what, if I'm ever elected president, there'll be plenty of funding for expiriments that involve taking recordings of things running into other things at extremely high speed.
SRIAD FOR PRESIDENT!
I second that!

I third that. And thanks to the amazingly low voter turn out of recent years that would appear to be enough to get him elected.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2004-09-27 11:33pm

Except that, even if I wasn't underage, I still wouldn't be a US Citizen. Which would make my vote count for nothing.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-09-27 11:36pm

Phantasee wrote:Except that, even if I wasn't underage, I still wouldn't be a US Citizen. Which would make my vote count for nothing.

So? Whackier things happened in florida...

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-09-28 01:04am

Sriad wrote:I tell you what, if I'm ever elected president, there'll be plenty of funding for expiriments that involve taking recordings of things running into other things at extremely high speed.

A local college physics prof likes to pose questions like "If you take a 28 pound turkey, accelerate it to 75% of C and slam it into a brick wall, how much energy is liberated?"

He also tends to discuss structural engineering in terms of "If you do 'X' while building a bridge, it will collapse, many people will die, and you will lose standing in the community."

So Sriad, if you're elected, can we expect to see a live-fire test of the turkey-brick wall experiment? If so, you've got my vote.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-09-28 02:58am

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Whew, thank god for this video, I was just having the urge to run into a concrete wall at two thousand miles an hour. Saved my ass.

don't mention it