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BoomerD

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meh...repost.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=30529895&postcount=249
 

Locut0s

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It's gotta be from a movie. Physics doesn't work that way.

Yup

Certainly could be from a movie, I thought the same thing. However what is wrong with the physics here exactly? Do you feel the transfer of momentum is too perfect? I don't think any of us know enough about the masses of the two objects to say that for sure.
 

DominionSeraph

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However what is wrong with the physics here exactly? Do you feel the transfer of momentum is too perfect? I don't think any of us know enough about the masses of the two objects to say that for sure.

There's too much transfer for where it hits. It hits above the belt-line yet everything acts like the ball hit a brick wall. Also the hit has only a slight upward angle yet the car shoots up and over and does so after the energy would've been imparted.
The car's acceleration does not quite match with the ball's deceleration.
 
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Locut0s

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There's too much transfer for where it hits. It hits above the belt-line yet the car acts like the ball hit a wall of 2 inch thick plate steel. Also the hit has only a slight upward angle yet the car shoots upward and does so after the energy would've been imparted.

I don't think there's really enough info in this vid to draw these conclusions. I'm not saying it ISN'T face but it doesn't look that obvious to me.
 

DominionSeraph

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I don't think there's really enough info in this vid to draw these conclusions. I'm not saying it ISN'T face but it doesn't look that obvious to me.

It isn't that obvious. But watch enough vehicles getting hit by trains and you'll see the difference.
It does not look like this
 
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BoomerD

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I don't think there's really enough info in this vid to draw these conclusions. I'm not saying it ISN'T face but it doesn't look that obvious to me.

I'm not sure about it either. I've swung a lot of wrecking balls in my life, and IF that's real, that one has to weigh 10,000 pounds or more. It's fucking HUGE...

Personally, I suspect it's fake, and I thought so when I originally posted it 6 months ago, but I still like it.

Anyone seen "The other Guys?"
A few places on the web are attributing it to that movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG3-ZE4sb3M&feature=player_embedded

Yep...from the movie:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/wreckingball.asp
 
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ahenkel

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The wrecking ball smacking the car its from the movie the Other Guys.

You can even see what appears to be the device that actually flips the car in the video
 
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DangerAardvark

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The wrecking ball smacking the car its from the movie the Other Guys.

You can even see what appears to be the device that actually flips the car in the video

WTFMarkWahlberg.gif

I just watched the fighter and realized that his performance in that was identical to his performance in The Other Guys.
 

MagickMan

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She was sleeping in what appears to be a class. The individual just taps her elbow slightly, hardly assault. :p

It can happen. Some idiot pressed charges against someone I know for simply poking him in the chest with his finger.

Of course, a month later the guy that pressed charges was caught in a parking lot by some guy in a mask and had the shit beat out of him and spent two days pissing blood in the hospital... so, there can be repercussions for being a pussy.
 

alkemyst

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I think I've seen the vid this is from. The guy ends up ok I believe but yeah it's an amazing shot. Poor elephant actually. Despite the fact that he's way bigger than the tiger and could probably kill it, I don't doubt the tiger still scared the shit out of him.

May 09, 2011, A Cleveland man was attacked by a housecat Friday afternoon and the man’s injuries are so severe that he had to be taken by air ambulance to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.

The altercation between the man and the animal occurred at a home on CR 3182 a few miles south of Cleveland in Liberty County.

At some point during the attack, the man and the cat reportedly were injured by a knife the man was holding. The man was taken to Cleveland Regional Medical Center before being transported to Houston.

don't mess with cats.
 

alkemyst

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It can happen. Some idiot pressed charges against someone I know for simply poking him in the chest with his finger.

Of course, a month later the guy that pressed charges was caught in a parking lot by some guy in a mask and had the shit beat out of him and spent two days pissing blood in the hospital... so, there can be repercussions for being a pussy.

Well personally I'd rather have the guy arrested for poking my ass, than end up with the headaches of beating a guys ass as an adult as well as the risk any fight would put me in.

Are you trying to imply you were the "badass" that snuck up on a guy in a parking lot? Did you use a bat? lolz.
 
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There's too much transfer for where it hits. It hits above the belt-line yet everything acts like the ball hit a brick wall. Also the hit has only a slight upward angle yet the car shoots up and over and does so after the energy would've been imparted.
The car's acceleration does not quite match with the ball's deceleration.

It isn't that obvious. But watch enough vehicles getting hit by trains and you'll see the difference.
It does not look like this

A train is also a substantially different force being applied differently. A train is going to outweigh a wrecking ball by a very large margin. Not sure what speed differences there are, but a train weighs thousands of tons. Plus, the first thing on a train that hits is going to be fairly low, whereas the wrecking ball is hitting high up on the van, while also going in a somewhat upward swing. Most likely on a van, it would smash in the top, although there are some cars (Dakar or Baja rally trucks for instance) that could possibly be structurally strong enough that it would cause it to flip.

Its been debunked as being a movie set, though, so its pointless to really debate it. Maybe tell Mythbusters or something though and have them test to see what might really happen.