johnny g Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 AND I AM NOT BEEN A DICK ABOUT IT, I AM JUST SO BORED LOL (btw, i am not a nerd, i just work with those formulas everyday) No worries, I was just copying and pasting from from aero website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdistc Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Best thing I've seen done to a compact car in AGES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 So what myth were they busting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyP Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 So what myth were they busting? That if a car was crushed between two big trucks head on the impact would be so great and the car would be so obliterated that it could be "lost" ie not noticed in the wreckage of the trucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Worryingly that was approx 350 mph slower than the Bloodhound is aiming for. Impressive video all the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 That if a car was crushed between two big trucks head on the impact would be so great and the car would be so obliterated that it could be "lost" ie not noticed in the wreckage of the trucks. Ah, that well known myth. I think they just make up things they want to do, and refer to it as a myth post hoc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewen Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 'Pretty girls dont fart' was one of my favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Ah, that well known myth. I think they just make up things they want to do, and refer to it as a myth post hoc. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/crushedbug.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/crushedbug.asp Don't you you snopes me, young man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I thought it started off as a myth that 2 trucks crushed a car head on and 'fused' together during the impact, allowing them to be towed away as one. they kept referring to nothing being 'welded' during the test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Don't you you snopes me, young man! Mythbusters have done it twice now, with no "fusing" of the two trucks at all. Urban myths are a bit of a hobby for me, particularly the socialogical aspect, if that's the right word, how they reflect our desires and sense of justice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leelbuk Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 They returned to the rocket sled site in a recent myth 'evolution' to see if you could cut a car in two... IjZFWY2SLGI GUkXDA2dtfQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Urban myths are a bit of a hobby for me, Hey, me too. I never get bored of them. particularly the socialogical aspect, if that's the right word, how they reflect our desires and sense of justice. It's the right word, just the wrong spelling . But yes, that's why I find Snopes so good, because it often unpicks the cultural significance behind the story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 My local Shell garage pinned up a laminate photo of a burnt out Shell station with the claim that the fire was caused by a mobile phone. The manager said it was a station nearby in Yorkshire....cue me phoning around every fire brigade in Yorkshire, none of whom had attended a fire at a petrol station. I even called in a station being rebuilt in Otley, but it was not because of any fires. After speaking to Shell HO (uk) they confirmed to me that Shell worldwide had never had a fire at any station caused by mobile phones. When I asked for a copy of the laminated photo at my local garage, the attendent told me they had all got a bollocking, out of the blue, from Shell UK and had been told to destroy all the laminates as they were falsely claiming a mobile phone fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 My local Shell garage pinned up a laminate photo of a burnt out Shell station with the claim that the fire was caused by a mobile phone. The manager said it was a station nearby in Yorkshire....cue me phoning around every fire brigade in Yorkshire, none of whom had attended a fire at a petrol station. I even called in a station being rebuilt in Otley, but it was not because of any fires. After speaking to Shell HO (uk) they confirmed to me that Shell worldwide had never had a fire at any station caused by mobile phones. When I asked for a copy of the laminated photo at my local garage, the attendent told me they had all got a bollocking, out of the blue, from Shell UK and had been told to destroy all the laminates as they were falsely claiming a mobile phone fire. That's excellent.The only fire was the one in your investigative belly. It strikes me that the more you start looking into urban myths, the more you realise just how much bullshit there is flying around. I'm very suspicious of any extraordinary sounding claim these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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