Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 15, 2011
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Transcript:
1 megajoule has about the same energy as a 1 ton vehicle crashing at 100 MPH. The U.S. Navy has a gun that can shoot a projectile with the power of 33 megajoules! The former West Germany has spent an estimated US $1 7 trillion on German reunification since 1990! The mid winter La Claspolada foot race and Italy has been held annually for 38 years, with its contestants wearing snow shoes from start to finish!
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jonvuk over 13 years ago
MATH!!!Kinetic energy = 1/2mv^2 … units are joules1 short ton = 907.18474 kilograms100 mph = 44.70400 meters per secondThen Ke = 0.5 * 907.2 * (44.7*44.7) = 906 333.6 joules1Meg = 1 000 000Then a 1 ton car traveling at 100 mph has the kinetic energy of 0.9M joules. ~1M joules33M joules would me that the target would be struck with an equivalent force of 33 1 ton cars traveling at 100 mph. Like throwing a freeway at someone. info on Joules here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule
Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
And yet Germany is the financially strongest nation in the European Common Market, also known as the European Economic Community (from what I heard recently).
Jogger2 over 13 years ago
Joules (and megajoules) are measures of energy, not of power.
Nighthawks Premium Member over 13 years ago
but it takes 1.5 jigawatts of power to shoot it
dickn2000c over 13 years ago
Once again we have a Believe it or who cares entry. This cannon is puny compared to one kilotons of TNT or its nuclear vequivalent which produces 4.184 GIGAjoules of energy.
Fan o’ Lio. over 13 years ago
I thought snowshoes looked like tennis racquets.Also: Is a jigawatt the same as a gigawatt?
3hourtour Premium Member over 13 years ago
…yes..but please don’t get ’em started on horse power….
Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
@RCMinor,…or The Biggest Loser!