NextaFeb 16

🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.

Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.

The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works.

Show threadBodhipaksa
@nexta I may be misremembering, but I think Mythbusters wanted to do something like this but it was judged to be too dangerous. This really is very neat!
Feb 16 at 10:46pmWeb
Show threadDavid ZaslavskyFeb 17
@bodhipaksa @nexta IIRC they did it with something like a basketball, not a human. Otherwise pretty much the same though.
Show threadfancysandwichesFeb 17
@bodhipaksa @nexta yes, Jamie talked about this in an AMA recently
Show threadRenke MeuweseFeb 17
@bodhipaksa @nexta they did drive a car into a moving truck if I remember correctly?
Show threadBodhipaksaFeb 18
@meuwese @nexta Quite possibly. I only saw a few episodes, but there are quite a few videos of Adam and Jamie on YouTube and I'm pretty sure thats when I heard one of them talk about this experiment.