In a critical scene in John Woo's motorcycle-heavy second installment of the Mission Impossible series, Tom Cruise and evil Dougray Scott have a head-on showdown on their respective high-powered bikes, which ends in a midair collision after each is somehow able to leap off his bike. Neither seems particularly fazed, as the two continue to grapple apparently unhurt on the ground and for the rest of the movie.
Assuming speeds of 50 mph, a collision time of 0.015 second, and masses of 80 and 90 kilograms for Cruise and Scott, respectively, the force generated by the impact is an incredibly large 124,000 newtons, all exerted on the upper-right halves of the combatants bodies. Estimating the area of impact to be around .35 square-meters, we can solve for the amount of pressure exerted on their bodies at the point of impact: 350,000 N/m2. Putting these numbers in real-life terms (what, you don't know what one newton of force feels like?): In car-crash studies, any pressure of that magnitude on the human body results in a 50-50 chance of surviving, with those who do survive coming away with massive internal trauma. Not only do Cruise and Scott survive the initial impact, they don't appear to have even a broken bone between them, when. Iin reality, Tom would need a whole lot of nontraditional healing to recover from this one.
In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, when Charlie and Grandpa Joe sip a bit of Wonka's "fizzy lifting drink" on the sly, they are immediately lifted off their feet and into the air, floating among the bubbles. This, presumably, is the result of all that carbonation inside their stomachs, increasing Grandpa and Charlie's buoyancy to the point where it can overcome the force of their own weight, lifting them into the air.
Thanks to good old Archimedes's principle, we can calculate the amount of air that would need to be displaced to perform the lifting, and thus the necessary increase in volume due to the drink's carbonation of the bodies of Charlie and Grandpa Joe. As you can see, to counteract the force of his mass (here we estimate his mass to be 70 kilograms), Grandpa would have to swell up to a massive 54 cubic meters-if he was a sphere, he would be five meters across (that's over 15 feet). For a more familiar reference, that´s at least twice as big as poor Violet's sudden rotundity after sampling Wonka's experimental three-course gum. Which, if you´re interested, would need to have a density of 6 x 109 kg/m3 to contain enough juice to fill Violet to the size depicted- that's four or five thousand times the density of an average metal. Watch your fillings!
you may want to check your source on the snowboard speed record. guinness lists the record at 125.45 mph, so i guess you were only off by about 75 mph....
I personally have been clocked at a max speed of 72 mph with an average of 65 mph on my snowboarding runs. This was just us having fun - no speed suits or long boards either...
50 MPH - what a crock - makes me wonder if the rest of the article is that poorly researched...
If you plan on spouting science, be prepared to verify your "facts".
yes, that calculation would be correct, but then it would have been named "Deep Impact" because the crew ultimately failed in blowing the rock to pieces. Now, even though the actual film "Deep Impact" was a huge flop, pointing out that blunder in "Armageddon" would prove that it would be "The Real Deep Impact" movie. Just the possibility of that blast actually separating the rock is what makes "Armageddon" a SCIENCE FICTION film, not a stab at making it a reality. Please look at the genre of the film before generously tearing it apart.
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Great article though (typos excepted).
Somewhat reminiscent of 'Mythbusters' - or even moreso a UK TV show called "Hollywood Science", presented by Robert Lewellyn. You may know him as 'Kryten' from 'Red Dwarf' or, perhaps, as the presenter of the UK's 'Scrapheap Challenge'.
Actually your calculations for The Day After Tomorrow started with another bit of bad science. That inaccuracy regards the temperature at the tropopause. Based on the 06 Apr 2008 00z upper air soundings from several cities in the Eastern US, it was about -65C, just a wee bit warmer that the -100C quoted in the movie. Those soundings also placed the tropopause at about 12,000m. Using a simple equation based on the standard lapse rate of 6C per 1km, the air would be about 7C or 45F (72 degrees of warming over the 12km fall) were such storms able to exist, but since hurricanes are systems that require warm waters above 80F to even begin forming...
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you may want to check your source on the snowboard speed record. guinness lists the record at 125.45 mph, so i guess you were only off by about 75 mph....
2 out of 2 people found this comment helpfulbut you forgot the shout-out to Firefly for getting the sound in space right.
1 out of 1 people found this comment helpfulI personally have been clocked at a max speed of 72 mph with an average of 65 mph on my snowboarding runs. This was just us having fun - no speed suits or long boards either...
50 MPH - what a crock - makes me wonder if the rest of the article is that poorly researched...
If you plan on spouting science, be prepared to verify your "facts".
0 out of 0 people found this comment helpfulyes, that calculation would be correct, but then it would have been named "Deep Impact" because the crew ultimately failed in blowing the rock to pieces. Now, even though the actual film "Deep Impact" was a huge flop, pointing out that blunder in "Armageddon" would prove that it would be "The Real Deep Impact" movie. Just the possibility of that blast actually separating the rock is what makes "Armageddon" a SCIENCE FICTION film, not a stab at making it a reality. Please look at the genre of the film before generously tearing it apart.
0 out of 0 people found this comment helpful"marquis" - please elaborate on how this word is pertinent in this context. Thanx
0 out of 0 people found this comment helpfulImage five, that is - as in:
"Let's talk about the marquis scene"
0 out of 0 people found this comment helpfulImage 6 Syntax error:
"It's true, however, that those unfortunate enough to have their spacecraft destroyed be in a spaceship while it was exploding"
HTH,
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1 out of 1 people found this comment helpfulImage 8:
"some materialsmetals have a knack forwill soaking up static electrical fields"
Image 9:
"would barely even scratch the surfaceonly get you 0.0004 percent"
&
"presumably putting keeping them away"
Great article though (typos excepted).
Somewhat reminiscent of 'Mythbusters' - or even moreso a UK TV show called "Hollywood Science", presented by Robert Lewellyn. You may know him as 'Kryten' from 'Red Dwarf' or, perhaps, as the presenter of the UK's 'Scrapheap Challenge'.
1 out of 1 people found this comment helpfulActually your calculations for The Day After Tomorrow started with another bit of bad science. That inaccuracy regards the temperature at the tropopause. Based on the 06 Apr 2008 00z upper air soundings from several cities in the Eastern US, it was about -65C, just a wee bit warmer that the -100C quoted in the movie. Those soundings also placed the tropopause at about 12,000m. Using a simple equation based on the standard lapse rate of 6C per 1km, the air would be about 7C or 45F (72 degrees of warming over the 12km fall) were such storms able to exist, but since hurricanes are systems that require warm waters above 80F to even begin forming...
0 out of 0 people found this comment helpfulyou forgot the shout-out to Firefly for getting the sound in space right.
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