Update: Video fixed.
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Video was a myth?
Sorry – maybe that wasn’t clear (oh dear, now I’m replying to myself…)
When I click the start icon it says “This video has been removed by the user.”
Need more beer :-)
Man! These guys have the BEST job!
note to self: do not smash head on into something while traveling 650 miles per hour.
I remember watching that when it aired a week or two ago… I think my friend and I actually gasped outloud and yelled at the tv. It was so cool.
Kinetic energy, she is a harsh mistress.
That was pretty cool. I’m a Mythbuster fan from way back. No matter how many times I see it, I still enjoy.
@Tom Coward: I would have to agree, They have the best gig I can think of.
That is just the most awesome thing.
Mythbusters may just be the only show ever with the perfect of credibility to awesomeness ratio.
My apologies, I meant one of the following two phrases.
A. Mythbusters may just be the only show ever with the perfect “ratio of credibility to awesomeness”.
B. Mythbusters may just be the only show ever with the perfect “credibility to awesomeness ratio”.
But with the high speed collision of words on the internet, they were fused into the one mutated sentence of:
Mythbusters may just be the only show ever with the perfect “of credibility to awesomeness ratio”.
Damn.
DAMN.
I have no idea what the original “myth” they were trying to bust is or was, but…
DAMN!!!!!
Here’s the legend and the (supposedly) true story:
First, give a quick read here for background:
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html
Then, read this:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/rocketcar.html
It’s just crazy enough to be possible.
Here’s a cool science website for anyone interested
http://mkaku.org/home/
This was probably a revisit to the myth about the compact car being sandwiched between two trucks and then fused together. Since they reused footage from that myth they talked about fusing metal in the end.
I love science: The best-ever excuse invented for blowing $#17 up.
My father, a metalurgist, has on his wall a picture of a multi-thousand-litre storage tank that the steelworks he was employed by filled half-full with water and then pressurized with air until it exploded.
When I asked him why, he looked as though he didn’t understand the question.
You can see more about the New Mexico Tech facility here. It says they have an explosives summer camp for high school students.
You can see vidio of a 1988 test slamming an F-4 Phantom jet into a concrete block at the Sandia National Labs sled track here.
I can’t spell: vidio -> video
I may use this to explain to people why I have always liked physics. That was friggin sick.
In the military we used to use an M21 anti-tank “killer” mine to show how much damage explosives could do. We would show members of the “Hell on Wheels” 2nd armored division just what the mine could do by blowing an decomissioned m60 tank (60 tons of steel) end over end 20+ feet into the air, and that was over 20 years ago.
These guys lucked out with this job, bet they weep if they ever cut thier program.
So much for the Pentagon and Pennsylvania 9/11 conspiracy theories. This quite clearly explains why there was essentially no recognizable wreckage from either of those 600-mph impacts.