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Look for new episodes every Tuesday! The next show is Christmas Day and the following New Year's Day. I hope you can make time on those holidays to stop by and watch us! Jason Dean | |
Indeed, you're right. The reduced impact in the water had about the same effect as the recoil on the tank's descent. Colby will explain that a bit further later here if you want more info. Jason Dean | |
I look forward to the next episode of this series! It will be a good addition to the Escapist. | |
If the show becomes popular enough, we plan on having a companion column where we can post research and calculations for you guys who are interested. If it is possible in the immediate future, I will add more information under the video for you guys to reference or possibly reference some of that material here in the episode thread. Jason Dean | |
My head, it hurts. Nice series, but all i got of it was "yea this could actually work" The rest.. meh not so much | |
Aw man, I haven't seen those equations in a really long time, but then again I mostly see the audio related ones. >.> I really like this series and I can't wait to see more of this. GO PHYSICS! :D | |
F = (1/2)*rho*Velocity^2*Surface area*Coefficient of drag F = weight of tank = 22.25 tons = 197812.02 Newtons sqrt(197812.02/.5*1000*2.69*2.55*0.8)=8.49 m/s or 18.9934 mph. It would be perfectly fine. | |
A comparable experience may be that of a wreckage rider of planes or even balloons. | |
Yeah, I know the Escapist staff takes care of that, I just figured Justin would see my comment, since he was posting in the thread. :) | |
Now THIS is a good show! Looking forward to the next one (Which will coincidentally be released on christmas day!) | |
math is hard | |
I liked this and will look forward to more, did find one likely fault that would be hard to test or correct for: MUD! Didn't see the movie, can't know the environment, but most lakes have silt and mud on the bottom. Starting horizontal movement in mud isn't easy. Nazi's even tried it as an invasion plan for the Brits in WWII. But maybe the bottom was rocky and such, then my point disappears. apologies if I over looked another saying this, did try to quickly scan. | |
Ok, I believe the physics, but how can you explain Mr. T not being B.A. Barakus? That just doesn't make sense, so a flying tank is irrelevant. | |
Really great show, the best possible balance of teaching/enjoyment, I hope this one sticks around. Also, this is science: Please use the Metric system, please, please, please. If not for scientific rigor, then at least because you are talking to an international audience that might not have a clue as to US units. | |
A few things were left out though: What would be the tensile strength of the parachute cables?, would one cable be able to carry an entire tank? Another thing that im wondering is, would the crew be able to handle tankshells in such a orientation/stress? | |
Length is important! They forgot the fraction of a percent contributed by shear drag! Hack frauds I say!!!1 Seriously, really looking forward to more episodes. I was pleasantly surprised that the sequence was plausible and that the show is going to be more than just ripping on movie physics. | |
I loved it, more of this please. | |
This was excellent. Please give me more. Ya'll probably would get more viewers with more topical stuff. I really liked this video, but The A-Team is ancient history to a lot of people. Especially on the internet. | |
They said that the tank cannon is fired roughly every 3 seconds during freefall. Did you check to see if it was possible to fire, reload and fire again in that timeframe? I know as it was proven that firing the gun didn't have much of an effect on the tank's speed, but would be interesting to see if they had researched that as well. | |
SCIENCE!!! | |
Great show, I love the concept! One small nitpick (and it's not about the math / physics). Even though the tank and crew would survive the water impact, wouldn't the parachute keep them nose down as they hit the lake bottom? And if that's the case, wouldn't they pretty much still be there? | |
Few series really click with me right from the start... I usually have to warm up to them... This one knocked it out of the park... I love it. I want more of it. I want it to have my babies. | |
Thanks for the feedback. I will check the audio levels and drop the music back in the mix some. Jason Dean | |
It's very possible with enough interest we may create a companion column to cover a lot of the extra details and formulas we gloss over in the video due to time constraints. Thanks for the feedback! Jason Dean | |
These are all good questions. I don't have answers for all of them but I can speculate a bit. The tensile strength of the cables and the material of the parachute itself would probably more than be able to stand up to that stress. Those chute rigs (chute and cables) are usually rated about 3 or 4 times over what they need to be to handle the job, for this very scenario. As for loading the tank shells, that would require a bit more research but it was irrelevant to the survivability of the fall which is what our end result was going after. Some of the things we just had to take on faith. And on the pendulum swinging of the tank firing, we did some calculations on that but ended up cutting that due to time. In future episodes, we will most likely be able to try to post some of that extra info somewhere to explain some things further. Jason Dean | |
This was interesting to see but honestly, I kind of zoned out when they went on the math tirades. I liked how at first, they just showed their sources in the background. But then they would just drone on about some coefficient velocity for a brick. I don't either understand or give a single fuck about that. Simply state the sources and you'll have credibility with me. I hope they shorten the whole math business in future episodes. Beyond that, I look forward to watching some of these anyway. | |
I don't remember if we had that information in front of us or whether we were even able to obtain that info at all. I will double check our notes and possibly defer to Colby on what he came up with in regards to that. Jason Dean | |
I approve of this show. Please, continue. :) You might want to talk to the Space Janitors people about getting rid of your green halos, though. | |
This depends on the depth of the lake, whether there was an automatic disconnect for the chute cables, and how much buoyancy the chute would provide to the tank... which is most likely minimal. Fluid dynamics is a whole other episode in itself to try to solve that problem scientifically. I love the enthusiasm but at some point, we have to work with the facts we can find and solve the most basic of the problem first and foremost. Even WE have to go on faith sometimes... as I mentioned to a few other people here already. Hahahaha. Jason Dean | |
Sounds like an episode for REEL PHYSICS! Be on the lookout in the future for us to cover the Die Hard franchise. Jason Dean | |
very interesting and im looking forward to the next one. but my math still sucks. maybe you should the part from charlies angels 2 with the helli scene falling down the damn. that would be interesting. | |
Nonsense. Math is just all too often poorly taught. :) | |
Yes but... ..where are the Zombies? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9i2FnRWdxI Tank falling out of the Sky = Zombies. | |
Awesome! Will watch. | |
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That was pretty neat. Hope to see the next one sometime soon. Maybe they can explain how Maggie Q an withstand the crushing force of a car in Die Hard 4, or maybe they can discuss the tragectory of a moving car into a helicopter, like in Die Hard 4, or maybe they can discuss the plausibility of destroying a fighter jet with a big rig truck, as depicted in the movie, Die Hard 4.