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The Bob Cesca Podcast: Matt Waterfeature

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam2/08/2019 7:34:59 pm PST

re: #198 stpaulbear

The only Keanu Reeves movie I ever watched was Speed and I hated everything about that movie. I wanted to walk out of the theater when the bus jumped a gap in a freeway, but I was with a friend.

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I once saw a kinematics analysis of that scene in a physics teaching journal. Long story short: it would have been impossible for a bus traveling at 50 mph to jump that gap. Setting the physics aside, the premise was the bomb would go off if the bus went slower than 50 mph. So, what happens when the wheels are no longer on the pavement and then suddenly land on the pavement?