🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.

[pvanheus@mstdn.science]

@nexta who was involved? I'd love to learn more about the planning that went into this.

[toddz@social.linux.pizza]

@smellsofbikes

Ah - I was just wondering what kind of bomb-launching railgun they had in the fuselage!

I'd never heard of the A-5's unusual bomb bay configuration. Wikipedia explains that the payload "was propelled rearward at about 50 feet per second":

North American A-5 Vigilante - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[blackburied@newsie.social]

@nexta many years back, ZZ Top did a similar experiment where you’d sit in a spherical steel roll cage and they’d roll you out of the back of a pickup truck on the highway at high speed.

All was documented in their incredible music: “Master of Sparks”

[binford2k@hachyderm.io]

@peterbrown @nexta same, I was watching the video looking for a car to show up

[pucetrailblazer@famichiki.jp]

@pvanheus @nexta IIRC this is a clip from the Japanese TV show ITTE Q, where Nakaoka travels abroad to visit this stunt company to do the stunt (Nakaoka is the one letting go of the spring, not the one in the slingshot).

[smellsofbikes@mastodon.social]

@toddz My uncle flew a lot of exotic stuff -- he's the only person I know with a Mach 2+ pin -- and he told me about the A5. I was quite young so I might be responsible for the inaccuracy.

[roadskater@mastodon.social]

@Kierkegaanks @nexta Where's the fun in that?

[menos@todon.eu]

@notsoloud @nexta xkcd relativistic baseball
You do not want to be the relativistic baseball.

[beanface42@peculiar.florist]

@nexta That’s impressive! Logical, but impressive!

[benjohn@todon.nl]

@nexta I worry that if I boost, other people might try this!

[thomas@social.zell-mbc.com]

@nexta this is really cool

[beeftacos@famichiki.jp]

@nexta

Brave man! (even if the physics is correct, you have to trust the machine to work correctly, haha)

[loke@functional.cafe]

@vxo @nexta in the video they explain that they do indeed wear that.

He was wearing it after people commented on their lack of safety great in earlier videos.

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@nexta so this vid is actually interesting?

[lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net]

@loke @vxo @nexta

Indeed.
This video shows great faith in physics, which is rational, but also in engineering, which may be less so...

[fuzzygroup@ruby.social]

@nexta It reminds me very much of the classic pendulum experiments where a person releases a pendulum on a long arc and it never hits them because ... pendulum.

[compfu@mograph.social]

@nexta @steter The guy pulling the lever probably was like „whelp, just killed a guy“.

[obesespacelizard@wobbl.xyz]

@nexta I bet that would be a wild ride, though I would still find a way to bust my butt.

[1000millimeter@chaos.social]

@gikiski @nexta

[gerardthornley@hachyderm.io]

@loke @vxo @nexta I wonder if that's also the reason for facing rearward in that curled position? It seems like quite a good one to avoid broken legs. Of course, if he was fired too fast...