"If you're a theater person...backstage a much better show than on stage..." I agree so much: I'm a community theater technician, mostly as a hobby, and it's exactly this "How is it done?" aspect that I love most about it.
i can't picture adam savage sitting there with a bowl of popcorn watching ghost ship. ironically, that is the only scene that i can remember of that "film"
I have gone really far to find a light up caterpillar plastic toy with cloth wings that i grew up with which i never found and a book called reflections of a nuclear weaponeer. I actually found the author's phone number and talked with him. unfortunately he was very old and didn't quite understand what i was interested in but i take it he didn't have any copies left. these two items are still on my bucket list. the book is far too expensive online and i never even found out who made the caterpillar :(
Aw, I'm just like him! I like seeing behind the scene. I've been to a couple of shoots of different shows and I'm never bored even when they shoot the same thing over and over for hours. Because I like the behind the scene so much!
I wonder if methodology on testing the cable was flawed, in that if it was only tensioned be the winch, range of movement would be limited to the stretch in the cable. Now, compare that to a cable or line tensioned by a sail (foresail) or a big marlin, now you have something which might have 10s or even 100s of feet of travel before tension is relieved. Also, was there not a well documented case of children losing fingers when a nylon rope snapped during a tug of war a few years ago?
I used to sit with my physics teacher after school too. At some point i was so disinterested in the actual class curricula (waaaay under the stuff we talk after school) that i started to learn lessons ahead of time so i could be confident enough to hijack the teacher during class for extra stuff on them. Looking back it was kind of jerk-ish towards my classmates.
density & viscosity (molecular interactions), along with speed and size roughly determine the resistance. Look up Reynold's number in the context of drag for more mind-numbing info
I don't think from the force no. Unless your feet are strapped to the ground and your body alone absorbs all of the shock, then I think you would make it.
I never said it was done by Arabs.. But think about it, when someone says "World Trade Center" unless they've studied far into 9/11 they think Muslim or Middle-East. And no, I don't know the history of their operations.
In ghost ship , i thought the wire was under constant force.
Adam would be a fantastic teacher...I'd attend college just to have a chance to have him as a professor.
"If you're a theater person...backstage a much better show than on stage..." I agree so much: I'm a community theater technician, mostly as a hobby, and it's exactly this "How is it done?" aspect that I love most about it.
Useless trivia: Those cables on aircraft carriers are called "Deck Pendants."
You're welcome, Marine Veteran (7011).
i can't picture adam savage sitting there with a bowl of popcorn watching ghost ship. ironically, that is the only scene that i can remember of that "film"
I know someone who was cut in half by a a snapped cable, working in forestry when one of the cables holding a log snapped and cut him in two.
I have gone really far to find a light up caterpillar plastic toy with cloth wings that i grew up with which i never found and a book called reflections of a nuclear weaponeer. I actually found the author's phone number and talked with him. unfortunately he was very old and didn't quite understand what i was interested in but i take it he didn't have any copies left. these two items are still on my bucket list. the book is far too expensive online and i never even found out who made the caterpillar :(
Aw, I'm just like him! I like seeing behind the scene. I've been to a couple of shoots of different shows and I'm never bored even when they shoot the same thing over and over for hours. Because I like the behind the scene so much!
i would think so. No matter the speed there is going to be more resistance from water then air.
Water has greater resistance than air at any speed, because its density is MUCH MUCH greater.
I wonder if methodology on testing the cable was flawed, in that if it was only tensioned be the winch, range of movement would be limited to the stretch in the cable. Now, compare that to a cable or line tensioned by a sail (foresail) or a big marlin, now you have something which might have 10s or even 100s of feet of travel before tension is relieved. Also, was there not a well documented case of children losing fingers when a nylon rope snapped during a tug of war a few years ago?
"That being said... Penn Juilette..."
Nice Adam.
Sidenote: Penn Juilette is used to say "That being said" really often. :D
I used to sit with my physics teacher after school too. At some point i was so disinterested in the actual class curricula (waaaay under the stuff we talk after school) that i started to learn lessons ahead of time so i could be confident enough to hijack the teacher during class for extra stuff on them. Looking back it was kind of jerk-ish towards my classmates.
density & viscosity (molecular interactions), along with speed and size roughly determine the resistance.
Look up Reynold's number in the context of drag for more mind-numbing info
Would a whipping cable still be able to kill someone from the force?
WOW, Imagine having a class with him. I'd LOVE IT!!!!!!
This man is a champion!
Lol Adam said he was shit in chemisty XD, I expected a beep XD
Slicing through the pig = bacon.
Adam, if you EVER become a teacher, you better let me know. I will move wherever to be a student of you
ummm.. Water Resistance?
I see. Why did you call me "Sunshine"?
In the last episode he said that they never stand by their results, but then he just said that he stands by the cable whipping result?? WTF?
I want a jet pilots seat as a desk chair :o
Where can I get one of those ^^
I don't think from the force no. Unless your feet are strapped to the ground and your body alone absorbs all of the shock, then I think you would make it.
I never said it was done by Arabs.. But think about it, when someone says "World Trade Center" unless they've studied far into 9/11 they think Muslim or Middle-East. And no, I don't know the history of their operations.
And that, my children, is where bacon comes from.
Honestly, it freaked me out when he said "when I'm done with Mythbusters."
shadowknowsjo Sorry to bring bad news, but Mythbuseters is over. There are new Mythbusters, but Adam, Jamie, Kari, Grant, and Tory are done.
@@andrewmarshall1142 ^^^^what he said^^^^
Going out with a teacher out of school? Thats would be illegal and considered pedophilia now.
Super cool story, bro.
6:27 What'd the guy in the background say?
@Doomgath you are my countryman.
"i'm shit in *beep*" ? :p
Wait, what?
No I don't care, it's just that people call me Sunshine and I thought you knew who I was. I guess it was just a coincidence.
Krazy Kat! YES!
why do you suppose it cut at 4:18 ?
Dunno.
2:18 "I'll stand behind those results absolutely..."
But... but you *JUST* said...
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2 people accidentally thumbed this down
now 5, some people dont have culture
@ThatPenguinFarted look up videos from/about/featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Yarr. That I be.
Well, that bet you'd lose.
@Doomgath Oh yes. very correct. I am sorry about that. That is what I call my girlfriend all the time. My mistake.
One word - Neck
;)
He's sö cül!!
@William1V1Eklund lol me too
Kops = Epic funny Swedish movie about "police". They are police, but...not really. :D
Adam!!! Chemistry *is* Physics!!! Only smaller.