{"id":4528,"date":"2010-12-30T20:55:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T20:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2010-12-30T20:55:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T20:55:59","slug":"land-of-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4528","title":{"rendered":"Land Of Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, I wrote about an episode of Mythbusters on Discovery Channel<\/a> – where they had debunked the myth that two cars colliding at 50mph impact with a force equivalent to hitting a solid wall at 100mph.<\/p>\n

I noticed tonight that someone has picked up the same episode and has commented on it.<\/p>\n

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We are all led to believe that if two cars travelling at 50mph hit each other head on, the impact speed would be 100mph. <\/p>\n

They proved that wrong. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Talk about wrong end of the stick!<\/p>\n

The combined speed<\/em> of the impact is a mathematical quantity – something going at 50mph hitting something else going at 50mph in the exact opposite direction results in a combined impact speed of 100mph.<\/p>\n

What they really did in the show was prove that the forces involved<\/em> were only equivalent to a 50mph impact against a solid wall and not to those resulting from a 100mph impact against a solid wall.<\/p>\n

None of those who have so far replied have spotted the error – which just goes to show what I have often said about ADIs. They really ought to leave some subjects alone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back, I wrote about an episode of Mythbusters on Discovery Channel – where they had debunked the myth that two cars colliding at 50mph impact with a force equivalent to hitting a solid wall at 100mph. I noticed tonight that someone has picked up the same episode and has commented on it. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}