Comment on Falling
Zehzin@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoMythbusters did this one and, surprisingly, the crash is way more fucked up at twice the speed on the wall
Comment on Falling
Zehzin@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoMythbusters did this one and, surprisingly, the crash is way more fucked up at twice the speed on the wall
Adalast@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s why I used the heavy caveats. The wall produces an inelastic collision which will do WAY more damage as all of the energy is arrested rather than an elastic collision of the two vehicles in which a good portion of energy is spread between the two bodies as they separate.