F4 vs brick wall
Posted: 2004-09-27 07:38am
Wow. The plane just disappeared. That's totally awesome.
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Posted: 2004-09-27 07:47am
What F14? The vid said F4.
Wow. The plane just disappeared. That's totally awesome.
Wow. The plane just disappeared. That's totally awesome.
Posted: 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?
Posted: 2004-09-27 08:15am
correctedStofsk wrote:What F14? The vid said F4.
Posted: 2004-09-27 08:16am
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 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?
Posted: 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.
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.
Posted: 2004-09-27 09:59am
Yeah, it's that one.
Pretty sweet.
Pretty sweet.
Posted: 2004-09-27 12:35pm
Wonder what would happen if it was a C17 with a M1A2 in the hold at the time...
Posted: 2004-09-27 01:22pm
Have they tested it against a 747 or something similiar?
Posted: 2004-09-27 06:18pm
or a frozen chicken...
Posted: 2004-09-27 06:22pm
It crashes firefox everytime I get to a certain point...
Posted: 2004-09-27 07:54pm
Same with Netscape - that must be some impact...darthdavid wrote:It crashes firefox everytime I get to a certain point...
Posted: 2004-09-27 08:08pm
Right click and save is the way to go.darthdavid wrote:It crashes firefox everytime I get to a certain point...
I noticed too, that it doesn't show the aftermath of the wall, that isn't conclusive enough for me.
Posted: 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.
Posted: 2004-09-27 08:44pm
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.darthdavid wrote:It crashes firefox everytime I get to a certain point...
Posted: 2004-09-27 09:46pm
Hmm... flying brick vs a bunch of bricks and mortar? cool.
Posted: 2004-09-27 09:47pm
A plane running into a concrete wall at high speeds and leaving no recognizable debris behind? conspiracy! Conspiracy!
Posted: 2004-09-27 10:39pm
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.Kamakazie Sith wrote:Have they tested it against a 747 or something similiar?
Posted: 2004-09-27 10:58pm
SRIAD FOR PRESIDENT!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.Kamakazie Sith wrote:Have they tested it against a 747 or something similiar?
Posted: 2004-09-27 11:28pm
I second that!Rogue 9 wrote:SRIAD FOR PRESIDENT!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.Kamakazie Sith wrote:Have they tested it against a 747 or something similiar?
Posted: 2004-09-27 11:30pm
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 wrote:I second that!Rogue 9 wrote:SRIAD FOR PRESIDENT!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.
Posted: 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.
Posted: 2004-09-27 11:36pm
So? Whackier things happened in florida...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.
Posted: 2004-09-28 01:04am
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?"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.
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.
Posted: 2004-09-28 02:58am
don't mention itDarth 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.
