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Post by ironhold on Mar 23, 2017 16:41:48 GMT
This one's for myths from the "Ghostbusters" franchise, which includes the movies and supplementary fiction of all sorts.
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This one comes from the "The Real Ghostbusters" cartoon episode "Killerwatt".
The team pulls up to a hillside overlooking a power plant where the ghost of the week is hiding. The guys get out to do a quick visual check of the facility before moving in. Unfortunately, while they're eye-balling the place, Slimer accidentally puts Ecto-1 in gear and it starts to roll.
The four guys wind up clinging to the hood as Ecto-1 rolls down the hill and crashes through a chain-link fence. Finally, Peter is able to climb up onto the roof, lean in through the sun roof, and pull the hand brake.
1. Can *four* people cling to the hood of a car, assuming that the hood is wide enough to even hold them in the first place?
2. Would there be a risk of injury for the four crashing through the fence like that?
3. Could a person successfully climb up to the roof of a vehicle while it was rolling? It was on flat terrain at the time, but it still had reasonable momentum even after going through the fence.
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Post by the light works on Mar 23, 2017 17:10:11 GMT
the origonal ghostbusters vehicle was probably wide enough for four people to cling to the hood at the same time. if it rolled in a reasonably straight line, lateral force would not be a significant issue. injury from the fence depends a lot on how they were positioned at impact. it's been confirmed that a car can crash through a chainlink fence with minimal damage. the question is how much of the impact would be taken by the riders. momentum is not a significant factor in whether a person could climb from the hood to the sunroof. acceleration on any vector would be the significant question. to be added to the myth was whether that model of vehicle had a hand operated parking brake, and whether the parking brake could stop it with all the extra weight it carries. s3.amazonaws.com/digitaltrends-uploads-prod/2014/09/ecto-1-ghostbusters.jpg
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Post by silverdragon on Mar 25, 2017 8:16:03 GMT
... If there is enough space, thats "Confirmed" then?..
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Post by ironhold on Dec 10, 2017 7:07:48 GMT
"Look Homeward, Ray", also from the first season of the cartoon series.
Ray is called back to his blue-collar home town to serve as the grand marshal of a local parade. A jealous rival responds by using a spell book to amplify the power of some local spooks in order to make him look bad, but the effort backfires when a powerful local ghost is awakened in the process.
As the local ghost can fly but no aircraft are available, the Ghostbusters have to improvise something by using one of the shaped parade balloons - that is, one of the big ones you see that have to be held and maneuvered by a platoon of people - to lift an improvised gondola into the air as if the whole thing was a crude hot air balloon assembly.
So - could a shaped parade balloon have enough lifting power to pull a significant amount of weight?
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Post by silverdragon on Dec 10, 2017 11:11:04 GMT
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Post by silverdragon on Dec 10, 2017 11:16:07 GMT
Hot air balloons in general, depend on weight, size is a "thing", but, if you do the calculations, and have a big enough balloon, you can lift almost anything?.
Not forgetting the TG episode when James May flew a Caravan under a hot air balloon.
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Post by the light works on Dec 10, 2017 15:27:47 GMT
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Post by silverdragon on Dec 11, 2017 7:19:13 GMT
Lawn chair and maybe a petrol powered leaf blower pointed backwards?. I am suspecting you need spare weight for a weapon system up there...
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