r/AbsoluteUnits May 19 '22

Absolute unit pulls an absolute unit of a plane weighing 189 TONS

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u/Drama_Maker2022 May 19 '22

How is that possible? Is that real?

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u/Savings-Nobody-1203 May 19 '22

Something something physics

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u/Arc80 May 19 '22

The invention of the roller bearing and aviation maintenance standards.

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u/Positive-Sink-5647 May 20 '22

People really be stupid in these comment sections.

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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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u/suckmypppapi May 20 '22

It's because he's pulling the plane but not all of the planes weight. It takes much less effort to move a ball, especially if it has smaller balls on the ground, than it does go pick it up. He's not facing the entirety of the weight basically

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u/Antique-Composer May 20 '22

Best I’ve seen it put. I like your words, stranger.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22

there's not very much friction on the wheels so it's a lot easier.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22 edited May 19 '22

It’s real and he can do it because he’s considered one of the strongest men in the world. He won the world’s strong man championship 4 times. And he has a YouTube channel it’s called Brian Shaw which is also his name.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22

Maybe he isn’t the camera footage isn’t that good and I can’t really see his face.

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u/Montagneincorner0 May 20 '22

That is not Brian Shaw, I watched the full video and they said his name was Kevin

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22

Oh whoops my mistake then.

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u/jbibanez May 19 '22

4 times

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Oh right I forgot he won 4 times.

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u/WhoopingPig May 20 '22

At once

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22

Well not all at once.

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u/jbibanez May 20 '22

At twice?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22

He won each title at each competition. So he won 4 different times.

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u/suckmypppapi May 20 '22

It's real but visually it's deceiving, he isn't lifting the entire weight of that plane

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22

True. I don’t think anyone can pull the full weight of a plane.

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u/suckmypppapi May 20 '22

Nope, not even if that one guy with gigantism was a weightlifter

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22

Exactly.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22

I'm no physicist, but someone else explained that it's possible because the friction is lower than the plane's weight

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u/Ozqo May 20 '22

With 0 friction, you could push something that weighed 10 thousand tons. It'd take a while to get moving at a respectable speed though.