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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kazan on April 08, 2004, 11:19:32 am

Title: Supersonic traffic ticket
Post by: Kazan on April 08, 2004, 11:19:32 am: http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=6438
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Post by: Turnsky on April 08, 2004, 11:38:37 am: surely that has to be a land speed record :ha: :lol:
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Post by: J3Vr6 on April 08, 2004, 01:15:27 pm: funny stuff. Radars suck. They'll clock a standing tree going 90 miles an hour. They are one of the worse guages of speed (for the law enforcement) but is still stands in court.. Unless you've done your homework.

The best measurement is the laser (and even then it's not foolproof) and the distance measurement. Where they'll be two lines across the road at a set distance from each other. The officer will time the seconds it takes for a vehicle to pass from one line to the other. If it's before a set number of seconds (adjusted for human error), then the vehicle couldn't be driving the speed limit and gets ticketed.
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Post by: beatspete on April 08, 2004, 01:51:35 pm: I remember a while back a squirrel got caught by a speed camera doing 67mph or something.
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Post by: Fineus on April 08, 2004, 01:53:06 pm: Applegeeks was on to something then ;)

Anyhow.. that's damn fast for a car. I wonder if it's fuel injected.
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Post by: Knight Templar on April 08, 2004, 08:31:50 pm: RAMjet. :p
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Post by: Corsair on April 08, 2004, 09:09:24 pm: SCRAMjet. :p
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Post by: Mr. Vega on April 08, 2004, 09:12:53 pm: Did they search his car for a jamming device?
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Post by: Corsair on April 08, 2004, 09:15:07 pm: Or possibly afterburners?
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Post by: Martinus on April 09, 2004, 07:40:47 am: [color=66ff00]Maybe this?

(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/rocketcar.jpg)
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Title: Supersonic traffic ticket
Post by: Stealth[cro] on April 09, 2004, 08:10:21 am: Quote
Originally posted by beatspete
I remember a while back a squirrel got caught by a speed camera doing 67mph or something.

So, that's what LSD does to squirrels...

Maeglamor - try this for a jet-car... http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html

Maybe this one would spring off a radar as supersonic.
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Post by: Martinus on April 09, 2004, 08:13:18 am: [color=66ff00]Isn't that story widely accepted as a hoax? Strange that it would be on Darwin. :wtf:
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Post by: Kazan on April 09, 2004, 10:03:27 am: that particular story may be a hoax - but there really was a case of something similiar happening to some army guys - i know one of the people who was in the same unit
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Post by: Martinus on April 09, 2004, 11:01:33 am: [color=66ff00]Cool.
Provided there were no fatalities of course. :)
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Post by: Thorn on April 09, 2004, 11:02:50 am: JATO
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Post by: Gortef on April 09, 2004, 11:19:20 am: Hahaha, I'm sure the owner would have been proud of his mini :lol:
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Post by: Kazan on April 09, 2004, 11:55:41 am: Maeglamor: no, the idiots indeed got a darwin award
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Post by: Stealth[cro] on April 09, 2004, 05:47:10 pm: I don't know if it's a hoax or not, but it's a damn interesting thing to do. Not that I'd try :D

The moral still is: Don't use JATOs.
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Post by: aldo_14 on April 09, 2004, 05:50:16 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stealth[cro]
Never, EVER use Jet-Assisted Take-off missiles. EVER.

what if you're flying a plane?
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Post by: Thorn on April 09, 2004, 06:19:27 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14

what if you're flying a plane?

Yeah.. like a Herc loaded with tanks...
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Post by: Stealth on April 09, 2004, 10:11:21 pm: that's a nice picture Maeglamor, but if you're trying to beat 3000 km/h + (as the car in the first link apparently did), the rubber tires will melt almost instantly from the heat. not to mention the G-forces you'd experience at those speeds

you'll have to find some sort of anti-gravitation device ;), like repulsorlifts :D
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Post by: Tiara on April 10, 2004, 01:20:19 am: Hmpff... they did a test, radars can't effectively flash a car that travels +/- 275 mph.

The camera takes two pics, but at that speed either it doesn't flash at all or the second pic is just a piece of road without the car :p
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Post by: karajorma on April 10, 2004, 07:04:22 am: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Isn't that story widely accepted as a hoax? Strange that it would be on Darwin. :wtf:
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1995 Darwin Awards Winner. Confirmed Bogus by Darwin

It obviously won a darwin before it was confirmed bogus.
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Post by: Stealth[cro] on April 10, 2004, 05:07:02 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Thorn

Yeah.. like a Herc loaded with tanks...

Only if you need a STOL. JATOs are never used with a long enough airstrip.
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Post by: WMCoolmon on April 10, 2004, 05:17:33 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stealth
you'll have to find some sort of anti-gravitation device ;), like repulsorlifts :D

[Geek]Repulsorlifts counter a planet's gravity to allow transport. Innertial dampeners (sometimes referred to as Inertial Compensators) reduce or eliminate entirely the G-forces associated with making high-speed changes in velocity.

Nerd.[/Geek]
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Post by: Mystical on April 10, 2004, 05:20:04 pm: Quote
[Geek]Repulsorlifts counter a planet's gravity to allow transport. Innertial dampeners (sometimes referred to as Inertial Compensators) reduce or eliminate entirely the G-forces associated with making high-speed changes in velocity.

Nerd.[/Geek]

i believe that's what he said

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you'll have to find some sort of anti-gravitation device , like repulsorlifts

He was referring to an anti-gravitation device which would stop the tires melting at such high speeds (you wouldn't even need tires at all), not to reducing/eliminating G-Force.

Right Staelth?