27. Astrophysicist, writer, artist. Michigan. Business inquiries: kaijunobiz@gmail.com
Mythbusters Physics: Relative Velocity
The Mythbusters tested what would happen if a ball was shot at 60 mph off the back of a truck travelling at 60 mph to see what would happen.
It became a perfect example of the relative nature of physics - showing that velocity can vectorially add together. 60 mph in one direction cancels the 60 mph in the other, meaning a net velocity of zero.
thanks, you discovered vectors. Fuck me sideways this is dumb
Yup, everyone has the same level of knowledge as you. There’s no one to learn anything from this.
Just to add, before the Mythbusters did this it was purely a thought experiment and had never been empirically tested at that point. So you are seeing in those two gifs the first actually test of that hypothesis since it had been proposed back in Newtons time.
As an astrophysicist I’d like to apologize for @surrenderless rude ass comment. We’re not all pretentious and like they said above, this was the first time this was ever tested. Imagine being so pretentious to something more profound like the double slit experiment.
The concept is bizarre, combining a building material from the time of Julius Caesar with a Jetsons aesthetic, but the approach has already worked before.
This newly-revived technique could provide low-cost housing for refugees and displaced people, and generally provide architects with a cost-effective way to explore convex construction.
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Season is a beautiful bicycling adventure where you explore & document a doomed world.
my favorte thing about college is that I’m with a group of people now that just go places just to explore and we end up at these strange ass places like these super eccentric coffee shops or weird little antique shops that are ran by equally weird people and these other really homey places where its like time doesn’t exist and ugh i love it this is my fucking aesthetic
My aesthetic is white walls and dark oak trim and maps of everything and lots and lots of plants
current aesthetic: cute english teacher who’s high key banging the history professor
current aesthetic: the history professor
current aesthetic: the history professor’s substitute who joins in on the action.
current aesthetic: the principal who really wants to get in on this sexyfest, but also doesn’t want this whole thing to blow up in his face.
aesthetic: the librarian who nearly exposes the whole affair before joining in.
aesthetic: The bookish guidance counselor who thinks you all need Jesus.
I just wanna talk about No Man’s Sky for a second because the map for that game is absolutely massive? There are 18 quintillion planets to explore in No Man’s Sky. It’s an online multiplayer, but the odds of running into someone are so slim it might as well be impossible. Like, there are 18 quintillion planets, across multiple galaxies, to explore. And that’s what you do! You explore and chart star systems! Boldly Going where no man has gone before! And I think that’s why I like it so much, tbh. I’m not gonna live long enough to like, actually explore the galaxies in real life! I’m not gonna live long enough to see people explore other planetary systems in real life! But you can get a taste of it with this game, a taste of what could be in the very distant future and fuck dude it’s just really cool
current aesthetic: cute english teacher who’s high key banging the history professor
current aesthetic: the history professor
current aesthetic: the history professor’s substitute who joins in on the action.
current aesthetic: the principal who really wants to get in on this sexyfest, but also doesn’t want this whole thing to blow up in his face.
aesthetic: the librarian who nearly exposes the whole affair before joining in.
aesthetic: The bookish guidance counselor who thinks you all need Jesus.
