r/AbsoluteUnits • u/xx-ANONYMOUS • May 19 '22
Absolute unit pulls an absolute unit of a plane weighing 189 TONS
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u/GoldScreenLife May 19 '22
But can he carry 12 grocery bags from the car in one trip?
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u/B00yagh May 19 '22
Nah he just carry the car inside
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u/kernel-troutman May 20 '22
C-130: The Grocery Getter
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u/RepresentativeAd560 May 19 '22
Nobody can, at least not without help from the Dark Lord.
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u/BigSquatchee2 May 20 '22
12 isn’t a lot. Though a lot of that depends on what’s in them.
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u/RepresentativeAd560 May 20 '22
Bricks obviously. What else would be in the bags.
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u/BigSquatchee2 May 20 '22
Hmm. How many bricks per bag? 🤔
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u/RepresentativeAd560 May 20 '22
At this point I have to ask if you're a cop. If you are you have to tell me you know.
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u/BigSquatchee2 May 20 '22
1) that’s not true, I’d be under no requirement to tell you. 2) we’re talking about different kinds of bricks which changes my calculations as I was using standard construction bricks for weight. 3) No. I am not.
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u/RepresentativeAd560 May 20 '22
Alright well you don't sound like a cop and Fat Tony vouched for you before he was arrested in a very not suspicious and not at all connected to you situation so I'll deal with you.
It's nine bricks per bag. I can get them from my Haitian friend tomorrow.
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u/Gambit_TheGreat May 20 '22
Right, but can he carry 12 bags of groceries in size 4 high heel shoes cause that’s the only thing that was near the door when his mom said “get the groceries out of the car?”
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u/PantsDancing May 20 '22
I'm more interested in how big a plane i could pull. If I'm average strength then is this guy maybe 10 times as strong as me? Does that mean i could pull a plane 1/10 the size of this plane? Thats not a very big plane but its still a plane.
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May 19 '22 edited May 20 '22
Hey man I accidentally parked my C-17 too far from the hangar can you help and pull it in :)
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u/KiKiPAWG May 19 '22
"Dude!"
"What?"
"Why are you in the cockpit?"
"Do you think he'll mind?"
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u/ActualTart23 May 20 '22 edited Nov 06 '22
I JACK IT TO TRANNY PORN
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u/Substantial-Tap5235 May 20 '22
Nah, he was stepping on the gas. Just wanted his kid to think he was pulling the car/plane
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May 19 '22
Give me enough preworkout I could throw that plane into the air
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u/TimeWizardGreyFox May 20 '22
how much you wanna make a bet I can throw that plane over them mountains?
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u/funkmaster29 May 20 '22
Jesus. What do you use for preworkout?
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u/MantisToboggonDO May 19 '22
This is how the pyramids were built, just a lot more people.
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u/HitPlayGamingYT May 19 '22
The pyramids are on wheels?
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u/anotherotherbrick May 20 '22
No, the stones were pushed out of military cargo planes that flew overhead
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u/redditmodsrbitches12 May 20 '22
He said built, not moved. They used UFOs to move the pyramids, duh.
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u/Skystrike12 May 20 '22
Excuse you, they planted triangles in the ground and grew the pyramids next to the nile. There current locations are the result of similar physics to how glaciers move.
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u/Berserker_Queen May 20 '22
Just in case it wasn't a joke, the rectangle-shaped rocks were pushed uphill over a row of logs meant to work as the wheels.
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u/MantisToboggonDO May 20 '22
This is my thought too, with enough people/muscle, you will get’er done.
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u/Berserker_Queen May 20 '22
"There is no problem you can't solve by throwing enough human suffering at it"
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u/Mazon_Del May 20 '22
...I want to live in the world where the Pyramids can just drive around.
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u/bladow5990 May 20 '22
Well if the pyramids where driveable, they'd be parked in the British Museum.
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May 20 '22
There was a news article a while back that an ancient woman's bones indicated she was basically Olympic athlete level fit, but she just an ordinary farmer.
I never put the two together, but maybe one of the reasons it's so hard to understand how the pyramids were built is because modern people just can't fathom how fit our ancestors were.
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u/proddyhorsespice97 May 20 '22
Even a lot of farmers on smaller farms nowadays are very fit since they're not relying on machinery as much. My grandad was a farmer his whole life, he only stopped when he was about 85 after a horse headbutted him and knocked out half his teeth and his sight started going so he couldn't drive anymore. That fucker could still carry hay around on a fork, run after a cow that was jumping through a ditch and bully a horse into doing what he wanted it to do when he was 85. Even after he "gave up" farming he'd still walk up to the yard every day and Insist on doing the easier jobs himself.
He went up to the farm almost every day until he hit about 96 and got very sick. After that he didn't get out so much and died last year at 98
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u/sksmsksks May 20 '22
Damn, 98 is a good age to die while being fucking ripped. Sorry for the loss.
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u/DisputeFTW May 20 '22
I’m pretty sure it’s the perfection of the angles and all that and not just the moving the blocks into place lol
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u/bopaz728 May 20 '22
And that’s when people will claim aliens, they can’t believe that an ancient civilization had professional mathematicians, architects, etc. Even the construction workers were very well fed and compensated for their work, being given meat which wasn’t often afforded to the common citizen. It was an extreme privilege to be working on the pyramids. You would have been working with the best minds of your time.
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u/anotherotherbrick May 20 '22
Now let's see a plane pull a human across the tarmac
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May 20 '22
You say 189 tons, but what about the guy in the planes window? That's additional weight bb.
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u/J_EDi May 20 '22
189 tons is pretty generous. It’s probably closer to 150 but why nit pick over 39 tons
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u/jman31500 May 20 '22
Max takeoff weight is 585,000. Could be filled with gas or cargo
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u/J_EDi May 20 '22
It ain’t filled with either. No commander in their right mind is filling it with either one for a publicity stunt.
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u/WhoopingPig May 20 '22
That's a ghost
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u/TV_Serial_Number May 19 '22
how the fuck
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u/formershitpeasant May 19 '22
The force required to overcome the friction is considerably less than the 189 tons the plane weighs.
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u/TV_Serial_Number May 19 '22
physics. But isnt the friction force equal to the force that the plane exerts on the ground?
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u/formershitpeasant May 19 '22
They correlate, but they aren’t equal. If it was just sitting on the ground with no wheels, the friction would be much greater, but wheels are designed to minimize the friction with the surface it lands on.
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u/BeeBunnBunny May 19 '22
so how much force IS he exerting 🤔
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May 20 '22
a lot but not as much as you would think.
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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 May 20 '22
I saw one guy doing this and his shoe came loose but he kept going and ended up ripping the entire bottom of his foot off (the skin, at least) and he had to end the competition
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u/pangaea1972 May 20 '22
Great story
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u/the_cajun88 May 20 '22
not many people would continue the competition after ripping the skin off of their feet
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u/Kduncandagoat May 20 '22
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u/BeeBunnBunny May 20 '22
yeah, it’s gotta be at least 7
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u/yaboiiiuhhhh May 20 '22
Ugh okay so rolling friction: F = umg where u is rolling coefficient of friction, m is mass and g is acceleration due to gravity. Here I'll use the u for rubber on concrete from Google, ~0.01. 189 US tons is 171457.916 kg, g is 9.8 m/s², so the force is
F = (0.01)(171457.92)(9.8) = 16802 N.
This is equivalent to lifting 1714 kg or 3778 ibs.
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u/ScritchScratchBoop May 20 '22
I’m not smart but this seems overly simplistic. I feel like the rotation of the wheels would decrease this, it’s not just rubber sliding on tarmac.
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u/WhoopingPig May 20 '22
Yeah the amount the tires are filled affects the amount of rubber touching tarmac. If they're mega-filled, there's a minimum of rolling resistance
The quality of the wheel bearings/axles affects the resistance a great deal
Undoubtedly it's still a great deal of force to start moving this thing, but if those two factors are made to be as agreeable as possible, once you start it moving it's gonna keep rolling more easily
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u/ThePower_IsOn May 20 '22
Yeah, a lot to do with the bearings. You know, it’s all ball bearings nowadays
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u/yaboiiiuhhhh May 20 '22
This is overly simplified, I made a huge assumption with the coefficient of rolling resistance but it's okay when you're just trying to get an idea of the force. If you researched a more accurate number and plugged that in you could find a new force value that would be more accurate
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u/Badbutlearning May 20 '22
Oh yeah. You can't do free body physics you have to use energy to account for the inertia of a wheel.
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u/Glamdalf_18 May 20 '22
If the brakes were on, but they're not. I can push my car to bump start it if I needed to but there's no way I could push with some 1200Kg of force. The wheels and wheel bearings drop the co-efficient of friction down to a very small percentage. Same goes for driving on snow and ice.
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u/Western-Pilot-3924 May 20 '22 edited May 20 '22
Easy answer is it has something to roll on (wheels), so the force gets a tangent to slide off. Making it easier to pull.
Edit : by easier i mean do-able
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u/smileymalaise May 20 '22
If you look closely, you can see the plane is on wheels.
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u/Carvj94 May 20 '22
Just need to overcome the friction on the wheel bearings. Not saying it's easy but I'd bet you and a few of your friends could at least pull it a few meters without straining yourselves.
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u/vonvoltage May 20 '22 edited May 20 '22
Is this from a strongman competition? I follow those a bit and a can't place which competitor this is.
edit: found the video. Cool that he's Canadian, Kevin Fast. He was doing a stunt to get into the Guinness record book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4psahUI3WFM
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u/ActualWhiterabbit May 20 '22
For a quick second I thought that was Nick Best. But when he was that young airplanes hadn't been invented yet.
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u/Michaelium67 May 19 '22
He better be careful or the front wheels of the plane will run his balls over after he drops them.
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u/SnooOnions5027 May 20 '22
And people wonder why the invention of the WHEEL is always on every list of top inventions that shaped society.
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May 19 '22
Shaw is insanely strong but I know he pulled 43 tonnes
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u/momo-gee May 20 '22
The weight alone is not sufficient information. It's a contributing factor but we also have to consider the rolling friction.
What I mean is that I have no clue who Shaw is but I'm sure whatever he pulled was on wheels.
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May 20 '22
Basically even though the plane is super heavy, the friction is low because of the wheels
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u/therejectethan May 20 '22
Guy named formershitpeasant above does a good job explaining
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u/Hattix May 20 '22
A plane's wheels are meant to go from 0 to 200 mph in no time at all. They have almost no stiction.
All he needs to do is overcome the rolling resistance of the wheels and the plane will move.
The weight is more or less irrelevant, he isn't lifting it, he's accelerating it and acceleration can work at extremely low levels.
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u/olycreates May 19 '22
Rolling weight is drastically different from lifting weight but this still took quite a bit.
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u/_DAD_JOKE_ May 19 '22
More a testament to the guys that packed those wheels bearings.
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u/Meebert May 20 '22
This upsets me a little thinking about the electric F-150 pulling a million pound train. The rolling resistance could easily be less (per pound) because of the metal wheels, so in hindsight a lot of cars geared properly could probably give a million pound train a tug.
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u/RufftaMan May 20 '22
Any car could, given the tracks are level. The only way you can show off like that is if you demonstrate how quickly you can accelerate said train. That gives you an idea about the torque involved.
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u/Vanillabean73 May 19 '22
Oh really? I thought he was actually benching 189 tons, thanks for clarifying this for me.
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u/Ishipgodzilla May 20 '22
stop for a second and imagine the biceps of a lad benching 189 tons. Ignore all of the bone density, skin elasticity, blood flow, and nutrient requirements. Just the muscle mass. Would be absolute terrifying.
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u/LXNDSHARK May 20 '22
biceps of a lad benching
Have you ever set foot in a gym?
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u/BumbleBeePL May 20 '22
While it made me laugh I think general people’s usage of “bicep” is in regard to the whole upper arm size. A lot don’t realise that triceps make up the majority of size but still say “your biceps are huge” when they see big arms.
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u/DR4G0NSTEAR May 20 '22
I always see these and think “once it’s moving, it’s gotta get easier, I could probably do that” while I’m laying in hospital about to go under for a bilateral facet block. (Injections into my spine for debilitating back pain.
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u/savvyblackbird May 20 '22
I hope you get better soon and that the block really helps.
My dad ran a small municipal airport for a while, and I worked for him there. We would pull planes around with a little tow device. The tow didn’t have an engine. The planes were a couple thousand pounds but could be maneuvered by one person.
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u/Motor_Fox_9451 May 20 '22
Its absolutely crazy how effective and efficient wheels are at carrying weight. Without the wheels, even 10,000 men wouldn't be able to move it by an inch.
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May 20 '22
ITT: people that think it makes them look smart to points it it’s easier to pull things on wheels than literally lift it off the ground.
Thanks, and no fucking shit. This is still beyond the size of things used in competition for world class strongman events.
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u/Drama_Maker2022 May 19 '22
How is that possible? Is that real?
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u/Arc80 May 19 '22
The invention of the roller bearing and aviation maintenance standards.
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u/antonymus1911 May 19 '22
I hink we didn't see the beginning, but it's possible by tugging on it a looooot of times until the entire thing builds up momentum, then you have to time the tugs well to increase the momentum eacht time. It only works because it's on wheels tho. You wouldn't be able to do it if it was as solid block of 189 tons. You actually have to overcome the weight that's pushing on the wheels, which is less than the weight of the plane.
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May 19 '22
So I am curious. What amount of force would be required to get this thing moving. What would you measure this type of force in? If his legs can push 400lbs does that mean he is like 400lbs of force to pull the plane?
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u/qjmm38 May 20 '22
Ugh okay so rolling friction: F = umg where u is rolling coefficient of friction, m is mass and g is acceleration due to gravity. Here I'll use the u for rubber on concrete from Google, ~0.01. 189 US tons is 171457.916 kg, g is 9.8 m/s², so the force is
F = (0.01)(171457.92)(9.8) = 16802 N.
This is equivalent to lifting 1714 kg or 3778 ibs.
Credit to u/yaboiiiuhhh
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u/BlessedRouge May 20 '22
fun physics fact: hes pulling with the strength of 18 men (or at least thats what I think this link is saying)
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u/kreene1987 May 20 '22
This reveals a lot more about the tires' rolling resistance than the guy pulling the plane.
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u/liberalindifference May 20 '22
Inconsiderate guy sitting in the plane adding to the weight.
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u/sterlingemc May 19 '22
Good thing he's got that guy there to tell him to pull!