Out of all the cool stuff that mythbusters ever shot on high speed camera, shooting a soccer ball at 60mph out of a truck traveling 60mph is one of my favorites
Just look at it. It is the most perfect visual representation of Newton’s 2nd law of physics I’ve ever seen. The ball, which was shot out of a CANNON, drops straight down. Two equal and opposite velocities completely canceling each other out, leaving the soccer ball to drop to the earth with a net velocity of 0. Sir issac newton would be proud to tears of this gif.
And yet this “myth” is nothing more than basic physics at work. A 10 year old with an interest in science could have told us this is possible. 60mph in one direction minus 60mph the exact opposite direction is 0. Basic.
But what makes this so frieken cool is the fact that they went through all the trouble to actually demonstrate the invisible laws that govern the way our universe works. To get this shot both the soccer ball and the truck had to be moving at the exact same speed. Real world variables make that extremely difficult to pull off. It took them hundreds of attempts to get it right. They went through all that trouble to “prove” something we have known as fact for hundreds of years. And we get this amazing gif to watch as a result.
Mythbusters is incredible. Science is incredible. And the fact that this experiment in physics can be used in science classes for years and years to come to help children learn about physics is incredible.
I dunno what young, transmasc needs to hear this, but like, you’re allowed to transition to look like a feminine man. You can just do that. If you wanna be a man in a dress, you can be a man in a dress. No one is stopping you. Like, who cares? Gender is fake. Just have fun. *blows kiss*
when nothing happens or everything happens but nothing happens and like it doesn’t have loads of gunfights or weird propaganda but there’s a scene with a green haze for fun or there’s something romantic but it’s just fundamentally doomed or unspoken or so gently mellow that u cry a little. it does not make eight journeys in two hours it makes one. the graph is a soft line not a spike. what did i learn here? love? peace? beauty? when did a film start being able to hold my hand…
a fat person says ‘i want to live my life without ridicule’ and for some people, the answer is ‘no’ and that will never make sense to me.
it should be noted that ‘i want to live my life without ridicule’ is a statement that needs no answer, yet people still won’t leave it alone and truly think fat people DESERVE ridicule.
