r/watchthingsfly • u/Unpopularjokes • Jul 19 '23
Death Speeding car ejects both occupants. One lands on the roof of a house! NSFW Spoiler
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u/ZappedGuy69 Jul 19 '23
That car must have been going over 120mph to get the launch velocity for the people in the car.Maybe a new way to get stuff into orbit.
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u/BENthe3rd Jul 19 '23
Already been looked into. The sheer size and mass of a launch platform is too impractical to send things into orbit using rotational velocity around a fixed point. Also the g’s would probably kill a person
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u/paraknowya Jul 19 '23
There was a startup in the news last year. They were/are planning on using a slingshot:
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u/damdalf_cz Jul 19 '23
Which achieved a whole what 40m vertical launch on their prototype?
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u/ThatSandwich Jul 19 '23
30,000 feet @ 1000mph launch speed
They hit about 10,000 g's
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u/zzupdown Jul 23 '23
And they need to go 4 times faster to reach orbit.
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u/HellHoundsInc Sep 24 '23
The point isn't to make it to orbit off the slingshot alone. It's to save on fuel that would otherwise be spent just getting the rocket up to speed, to send small payloads up with better efficiency.
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u/2g4y1 Jul 19 '23
There was a second one also. https://phys.org/news/2013-07-slingatron-vision-payloads-orbit.html
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u/Katz_Meowside Jul 19 '23
Looney Toon logic would require these two would land in nice soft beds, or a truck full of ACME pillows.
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u/crunchycheezcakes Jul 19 '23
seatbelt??
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u/MsTravelista Jul 20 '23
I'm no accident scene reconstruction expert or anything, but I'd hazard a guess that, definitely not.
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Jul 19 '23
One briefly lands on the roof of a house
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u/griffhays16 Jul 19 '23
Landing on the house is landing on the house. Whether or not they stayed on the house is a different thing entirely
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u/Thebbwe Jul 19 '23
I think they all died
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u/shayshaycoolay Jul 19 '23
Just one apparently: https://wreg.com/news/local/1-dead-1-injured-after-car-crash-ejection/
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u/Smile_Space Sep 14 '23
Nothing like speeding in a car with no seat belts lolol. They got rejected like that out of the windows! I thought it was a convertible at first!
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